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Appeal dismissed after 1500 signatures considered
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• An appeal by South Wales Transport Co Ltd against the decision• of the South
Wales Traffic Commissioners granting a licence to J. Jenkins and Sons (Skewen) Ltd to operate eight-day extended tours to a number of destinations and three-day tours to London, has been dismissed by the Secretary of State for the Environment.
In a written decision it is stated tha: South Wales Transport maintained that the tours were unnecessary and would subjec. the company's own tours to unfair corn petition. It was felt that the Commissioner: had been unduly influenced by the prospec of legislation likely to affect the considera tions bearing on the licensing of tours an( excursions.
The grant allowed J. Jenkins and Sons t( abstract traffic and jeopardize the viabilit: of South Wales Transport's tours by under cutting its prices, the level of which wa partly determined by the higher overhead and deficits associated with the operation c a number of unprofitable services in th public interest.
The respondents, J. Jenkins and Son: had claimed to have demonstrated thei ability to offer high-quality tours at a pric lower than South Wales Transport an thus more acceptable to some of th travelling public and in support of th application produced 1500 signatures an support from local authorities. It wE right, says the Secretary, that the signatur( should have been taken as evidence by tI Commissioners.
No overriding reason for denying ti public a choice of tours and operators c any of the routes in question could be see
by the Secretary and he was satisfied that reaching their decision the Commissione had acted within the limits of the discretic assigned to them under the existing 'al The appeal was therefore dismissed.