Come - back Delayed : Licence Refused
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THIS was not an application to carry I passengers, and if there were a need to carry goods in the GainsborOugh area the applicant should seek a licence in the East Midlands. There could be no grant on the evidence produced, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, said at Sheffield, on Tuesday when he refused a B-licence application by Messrs. A. R. and H. Lomax, Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, The British Transport Commission, Pcarsons (Armthorpe), Ltd., A. V. Harrison (Transport), Ltd., A. Hanson, Ltd., F. B. Dyson, and L. C. Carpenter,. Ltd., objected.
Mr. H. Lomax said that he was granted a B licence in 1947. A serious accident in 1948 incapacitated him for three years. His sons were in the Forces, and after trouble with his driver he surrendered the licence and was told he would receive sympathetic consideration when he re-applied.
He was asking for a licence for a 24-ton platform vehicle, with the previous conditions, mainly to carry for .Mr. Clifford Nicholson, who owned 61 farms in north Lincolnshire.
Replying to suggestions by the objectors that he would have 30 miles' empty running into Lincolnshire, Mr. Lomax said there was a crying need for farm labour in the area, and he would carry women workers to and from Doncaster.
Mr. T. S. Atkinson, for the 13.T.C., said the applicant was fit in 1953 and could have applied for a licence then. No prima facie case had been made out, and the time lapse counteracted any sympathetic consideration.
M. AND D. IMPROVE TOUR FACILITIES
PASSENGERS on extended tours operated by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., may in future he picked tip at any point on routes served by the company's stage services. Approving this proposal at Maidstone last week, the chairman of the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners, Mr. H. I. Thom, said it was a distinct improvement in the facilities for tour passengers.
The scheme will be of particular benefit to passengers on tours starting on Sunday mornings, when stage services are infrequent, and on those returning late at night.
Maidstone and District were' also authorized to raise fares on their tours and express services and to place them on a mileage basis. The increases will amount to approximately 10 per cent,. on express services and 7-1 per cent, on excursions and tours.
Mr. Thom said the Commissioners hoped that other operators would follow suit in relating mileage and fares more closely.
The application is believed to be the first of its kind to be made in the south of England.