"Only Three People in the Dark"
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application by Happiway Tours Vlanchester), Ltd., was adjourned e Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners eds last week after the company's ger had keen questioned about their iental tours. They had applied full-term express carriage licence en Bradford and Manchester in ction with their coach-air tours.
J. Booth, for Happiway, said lad been granted a licence for 1961 :rate a feeder service from Bradford anchester to serve the coach-air which had been licensed in the Western Traffic Area.
;3/ had now bzen granted a fulllicence in the North Western and applying for a similar licence in orkshire Area.
tours had been operated successin 1961 and the company had y made 66 provisional bookings the Yorkshire Area for this year's ss-examined by Mr, F. S. Marshall, iallace Arnold Tours, 'Ltd., who ed to the application, Mr. Eric :on, manager of Happiway, said 'aches used on the Continent last zr were loaned by a Dutch firm.
Continental part of the tour had organized by a Captain Langton vas a friend of the chairman of way.
Marshall: 'These coaches were by Captain Langton and Universal Ltd., either in his own name or name of Universal Tours?" Harrison: "Captain Langton was, company were, merely acting as for Happiway."
Harrison said he had no personal e.dge that Universal passengers and way passengers travelled in the coaches on the Continent.
e take them to the airport. We contract with Tradair to fly them to Holland and from there our zts are with Universal Tours," Er. Harrison. He understood that Happiway chartered an aircraft from Tradair but, in reply to Mr. Marshall, who suggested that they did not charter an aircraft but merely booked seats on one, Mr. Harrison agreed that his firm had never applied to the Air Licensing Board for the charter of an aircraft.
Mr. Marshall said: "It seems to me everybody is in the dark about how ,....your operations are carried out except yourself, your chairman and myself." Replied Mr. Harrison: "My concern is this country. I have nothing to do with the Continental operations."
After Mr. Marshall had commented that the arrangements of the chairman of Happiway with Captain Langton of Universal Tours did not comply with the conditions of the licence granted by the North Western Commissioners, Major F. S. Eastwood (chairman of the Yorkshire Commissioners) said: "We are going to adjourn this case to consult with our colleauges in the North West."
Appeal Against "Band" Vehicles
AHAULAGE firm which had been granted seven vehicles to run a service for people wishing ' to have their musical instruments repaired were "extremely optimistic" in the belief that they would always find amateur musicians as drivers, said Mr. A. J. F. WrottesIey, representing the British Transport Commission before the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday.
The B.T.C. were appealing against a grant of seven vehicles on A licence to Maynor Transport, Ltd., to carry musical instruments in Great Britain.
Mr. Wrottesley said that Maynors had stated that they wanted to operate a service on a weekly basis. They were going to employ amateur musicians as drivers and to use specially equipped vehicles with plastics bodies. The case continued on Wednesday.