• AROUND THE TRAFFIC AREAS
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. Brief News of the Activities • in Various Parts of the Country
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• V V-real public need-for this service," said • Mr. Rovvand Harker, chairman of the Traffic Commissioners for the SouthEastern Area, when granting a special application to run coaches from Eastbourne to the top of Beachy Head.
The Commissioners also granted a licence for a aervice between Chichester and Goodwood racecourse. The operator said that he carried parties from Southend to London, whence his vehicles travelled empty to Chichester.
Bouts Bros., Ltd., has protested to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners against "the seemingly unending pro B46 cednie entailed in our endeavour to secure •a licence for a road service to coastal towns."
The letter continues : " During the past months we have attended, at various times, at your offices. We have had a hearing at a sitting of the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Area. We have had solicitors employed. We have waded through hundreds of daily booking sheets, relating to last year's traffic, at 30 booking agents' offices. Our representative will be further required at Lewes, also at Basingstoke, to support further backings, and we have not yet had one licence granted. All that we have achieved is the grant of one backing for a licence not yet granted." .
Middlesbrough Corporation applied for permission to run services outside the borough when the Northern Traffic Commissioners recently sat at Middlesbrough. The application was opposed by the L.N.E. Railway Co., the United Automobile Services, Ltd., West Hartlepool Corporation and Billingham • Urban District Council.
The corporation asked for protection for its buses as well as for the trams, and Mr. Riches said that where the corporation was not in possession of statutory power giving it protection on the trams, the Commissioners were prepared to grant such a safeguard, but not for the buses.
It was finally decided that applies tions for consent to operate on routes on the north side of the River Tees, whether the commencing point were in Middlesbrough or at Port Clarence, should be adjourned sine die.
The chairman suggested that the municipalities concerned with transport operation on Tees-side should meet the private undertakings and between them formulate a scheme of working for the north side of the Tees, and Middlesbrough Corporation accepted.