Brother Opposes Application for Camp Service
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ITMEN Mr. E. W. Shergold (Shergold VI' and White) applied to the Western Licensing Authority at Salisbury, last week, .f or permission to operate an express service between Porton and Liverpool and Manchester, his brother, Mr. S. C. Shergold, objected on the ground that it would be wasteful and would cause unnecessary competition.
Mr. P. E. G. Mather, for Shergold and White, said they proposed to pick up at camps at Porton, Figsbury, Winterbourne and Old Sarum, and then proceed via 13ulford Camp and Tidworth. At the moment there was no direct service from the camps east of Old Sarum to Bulford or Tidworth.
Mr. A. G. Docker, for the objector, said his client already ran an express service from Tidworth to Manchester and Liverpool. . He did not object to the service from Porton, but he did object to the proposed co-ordination of services with that from Tidworth, as it would give the applicants the right to run three coaches.
Replying, Mr. Mather said there was no restriction on the number of vehicles; what they wanted to avoid was running them half-empty, They wanted to be able to pick up passengers at Bulford and Tidworth on the coach starting from Porton.
Commenting on a suggestion of Mr. Docker that the applicants were not finding the Tidworth-Bulford business economic, the Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson said: "I don't know that you ought to say that."
The application was granted when Shergold and White withdrew their request for co-ordination, confining the licence to picking up in the Old Sarum area. The number of relief coaches was limited to two, making a maximum of three.