Morecambe Operators . Come to Terms
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TWELVE companies in the•Morecambe 1 Coach Association objected at Blackpool, last week, when Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners for various excursions and tours starting from three points in Morcambe. Ribble offered Et) surrender the existing licences issued fci Kia-Ora Excursions (Morecambe), Ltd., Florence Excursions (Morecambe), Ltd., and Frank Elinns, Ltd., if the application were granted.
Mr. F. D. Walker, for Ribble, said KiaOra had a maximum of six vehicles on their licence, whilst Florence had four and Binns had two.
Mr. F. Binns, managing director of Frank Binns, Ltd., told the Commissioners that it was the Association's policy to allow members to use each other's picking-up points provided consent had been obtained. To this, Mr. H. Backhouse, for 12 members of the Association, said the scheme would surely result in an irregularity of traffic. Mr. Walker replied that if the licence were granted the licensed points would be used with discrimination.
After an adjournment, Mr. Backhouse said an agreement had been reached. There would be no objection if Kia-Ora had only four vehicles, Florence three, and Binns two.
Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said the Commissioners were satisfied with the agreement, and Ribble's application would be granted on those terms.
"NORMAL TOWING MAY BE
LEGAL '.' .
IT was not certain that the normal use of towing ambulances . was illegal, stated Mr, G. R. 1-1, Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons last week, when he dealt with questions about the effect of the High Court decision in the Wilkinson appeal (The Commercial Motor, May 9).
The offence in this case lay in towing the ambulance unladen behind a lorry. This was illegal in any event. The whole matter was being studied and a statement would be made as soon as possible, Mr. Nugent added.
FIFTH BY-PASS PLANNED L'URTHER improvernents are planned
for the A51 road which carries a high volume of industrial traffic between Lancashire and the Midlands. Two bypasses have been completed at Longdon and Rugeley, and work is in progress on others at Stone and Carr House railivay bridge. The Minister of Transport has now approved .a £125,000 project for a
by-pass at Lichfield. •
Another scherise announced by the Ministry of Transport will improve traffic conditions in the centre of Exeter, where a busy 'road junction at the east end of High Street will he re-aligned. A new road 3.30 yards long -will be built at a cost of fl 76.000,