Weekend tours to Holland

13th September 1968, Page 101

13th September 1968

Page 101

Page 101, 13th September 1968 — Weekend tours to Holland

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• Following the grant of an additional throughout-the-year excursion from Leeds to Hull by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Leeds last week, Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Leeds, will be able to introduce winter weekenders to the Continent.

Its licensing officer, Mr. W. J. King, said its London weekend excursions had proved most popular, as had British Railways' similar tours to Holland via Harwich. The addition of Hull to its present 15 to 16 air and sea departure points would also permit the resumption of six-day bulb field tours and the improvement of its general tours to Holland.

At present air tours left from Yeadon airport but passengers wishing to travel by sea had to go via Harwich. The company had lost money running half-empty coaches to this port from Leeds but it would be economically viable to run a vehicle with 10 to 12 people the short distance to Hull.

On behalf of Wallace Arnold, Mr. J. E. Hanson explained that BR had withdrawn its objection subject to the imposition of a clause permitting only the carriage of passengers travelling on inclusive tours organized throughout by the company.

A legal document would be drawn up with Wardline Tours of Wakefield stating that Wallace Arnold would not oppose an application by Wardline to take parties of schoolchildren and staff through Hull to Holland and Germany.

For Wardline, Mr. E. Walker recalled that in 1966 his client had applied for a licence to operate to the Continent via Hull which had been opposed by the present applicants and was dismissed on appeal, with the suggestion that a more qualified application should be made. Wardline had run four private parties to the Continent in 1967 and three in 1968 but wished to advertise so that children from various schools could make up a coach. Wardline would withdraw its objection and had agreed that application would not be made to vary, within 10 years. any grant subsequently made to it on the lines agreed, said Mr. Walker.

Mr. King told the Commissioners that accommodation for passengers without cars was difficult to arrange on ships from Hull. However, bookings made prematurely for 1969, because the present application had been more protracted than expected, had all been taken up by nine private parties.

Only tours to Holland were to be routed through Hull at this stage, said Mr. King, although other places such as the Rhineland might be considered later on.