Plans to Link Must be Disclosed
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THE Northern Traffic Commissioners support their colleagues in the north-west in their view that applicants for express services should disclose any intention to link.
This was made clear at Durham, last month, when the chairman, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, discounted objections by Braithwaite Tours, Ltd., to an application by Mr. R. L. Hardwick for additional vehicles on an excursion and tour licence to Dover as part of a service to the Continent, on the grounds that the intention to link an excursion to Southend with services to the Continent was not disclosed when the application was made.
The reliance of other objectors, including United Automobile Services, Ltd., and Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., on a principle, established in 1934, that express services to London from the north-east should be strictly limited as regards duplication to protect British Railways, was also overruled. The argument that, although it was an excursion and tour licence, it was, in effect, a licence for an express service to the south coast was disregarded because of a condition preventing the carriage of passengers solely to London or Dover.