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Objections to Edinburgh visitors tours
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• Adam Cramond and Son, of Edinburgh, oldest bus operators in Edinburgh, starting with horse-drawn sightseeing tours in 1891, is seeking to re-enter the field and asked the Scottish Traffic Commissioners on November 1 in Edinburgh for a service of scheduled bus sight-seeing tours for the year round. Ian Cramond agreed that it had applied two years ago for this facility and had been refused. It was proposing to uplift from stated hotels, a facility which was standard practice in international tourism but not yet in the United Kingdom; it would also provide interpreters which was not done to any extent at present.
Edinburgh Corporation and Scottish Omnibuses opposed.
Scottish Omnibuses contended that they uplifted from some 20 hotels in Edinburgh but agreed in cross-examination that this applied only to people using their extended tours booked in at these hotels and that they did not uplift others.
Objections were based on three heads; similarity of routes, abstraction of traffic and that a grant would be against the public interest and answers lodged were that the tours proposed — three each morning and three each afternoon — were quite different and covered three times the distance of Scottish Omnibuses tours; that there could not be abstraction since the tours were aimed at hotel residents lifted from their hotels; and that public interest would he served by granting the tours although Scottish Omnibuses interests might not be.
Mr James Law, QC contended that the grounds of objection were clearly not tenable. The case continues.