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Unauthorized use considered during application

1st October 1971, Page 31
1st October 1971
Page 31
Page 31, 1st October 1971 — Unauthorized use considered during application
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Rennies Lion and Comfort Coaches LW of Dunfermline, Fife, withdrew four applications for express services to Morecambe, Blackpool and Southport and one for a variation of tours from Dunfermline at a hearing there last week. The company proceeded with two others, were refused one of these and then withdrew the other for lack of supporting evidence. Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd. Scottish Omnibuses. W Alexander and Sons (Fife) Ltd and Southdown Motor Services Ltd were objectors.

Rennies proposed to run a 45-seater luxury coach between Dundee and Torquay at the July /August holiday period, which would be an extension of an express service grant made in June of this year permitting a Dunfermline-Torquav express service. Mr John Rennie, Jnr, admitted that his firm had run this express service only once in each direction this July, although obliged by the licence to run weekly to Torquay and back. He also admitted bringing passengers down by minibus from Dundee to join the express service at Dunfermline, although not authorized to do so, to join another southgoine service.

No evidence was given in support beyond two letters from Dundee and Perth travel agents indicating local support; Wallace Arnold opposed and 6oritended that this was abstraction of holiday traffic which could and would travel by tour vehicles from Fife to the South of England.

Mr,A. B. Birnie, chairman of the Traffic Commissioners, said that the application had been supported to some slight extent but there was no detail in these supporting letters. That lack of support was enough to justify rejection but there was the further aspect that the operator had not operated in the terms of the licence granted previously and he therefore refused the application.

Rennie then sought an express service between Dunfermline and Portsmouth which were both dockyard towns with a fair degree of holiday-period travel by dockyard employees and their families.

An application to operate a service between Dunfermline and Portsmouth was withdrawn after the Traffic Commissioners' had made it clear that they would seek further information on a number of aspects.

The question of unauthorized use between Dundee and Dunfermline was dealt with by the Commissioners in Chambers.


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