Same Tour Passengers for 20 -Years
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AN Y people had travelled on coach IVA tours with Florence Motors, Ltd., Oldham, for about 20 years and had exhausted the company's home and Continental programme, it was stated before . the Northern Traffic Commissioners at Keswick on Tuesday.
The company applied to operate sevenday and 14-day tours to Eire, sailing from Holyhead with starting points at Barrow in Furness, Carlisle, Kendal, Penrith, Keswick and Windermere from Easter to October.
Mr. S. Moss, for the applicants, said that old customers of the company had expressed interest in luxury tours to Eire. If passengers had to travel to Holyhead by rail from the places of departure that the company sought, there would be at least two changes in each case.
A list of 300 names of persons interested in tours to Eire was produced and several booking agents gave evidence of demand. Mr. R. R. Renton, managing director, claimed that there were no com parable services to Eire. .
Mr. F. J. McHugh, for the railways, observed that Florence Motors had a wide selection of tours which could not be exhausted in a hurry, and his clients were "not worried" about the application. As it was not long since the ban on coaches to Eire had been lifted, it had been farseeing of the company to have collected names of persons interested in tours within the past year.
The chairman granted the application, with one vehicle allocated to each departure point, on condition that figures and details of passengers carried were submitted .at the end of the season.
LEEDS DROPS 13m. PASSENGERS
ADECREASE of almost 13m. (5.8 per cent.) in the number of passengers carried by Leeds Transport Department in the year ended March 31 has been reported by Mr. A. B. Findlay, general manager. During the influenza epidemic last September and October, 3.25m. passengers viere lost, and there was a further drop in traffic during the bad weather early this year.
Demands for peak services altered little during the year. Mr. Findlay thinks that the staggering of working hours,. whilst it would relieve peak traffic,' could be accomplished only by a committee rePre"senting the variotrs interests involved. "This matter should receive serious consideration," he adds.
Although fewer passengers were carried, 352,730 more miles were covered during the year, carrying people to and from housing estates on the city outskirts. The department' made a surplus of £126,893.
1,000TH U.T.A. BODY
TH4 workshops of the Ulster Transport Authority have built their 1,000th bus body. This work was started in 1946 because of the difficulty of obtaining bodies at that time. Construction in composite materials has given way to lightmetal fabrication, and luxury coaches as well as service buses have been produced.