Tours Grant For Eastbourne Coachways
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PAA N application by Eastbourne Coachways for the renewal with modifications of an excursions and tours licence granted a year ago was granted by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners at Eastbourne last week at a resumed hearing.
The first hearing was on July 23, when Miss Elizabeth Havers, counsel for Eastbourne Coachways, told the Commissioners that the company was asking for a licence to run seven-day tours each to Llandudno and Snowdonia, Morecambe, the Lake District and Torquay, and a 10-day tour to the Scottish Lakes and Highlands. These were in addition to tours to Ilfracombe and Edinburgh, for which they were licensed provisionally last year. The tours were exclusively for old-age pensioners, their wives and husbands, and were organized for spring and autumn, said Miss Havers.
Twelve old-age pensioners gave evidence in support of the application. Most of them had been on one or both of the tours run by the company and praised them highly. They wanted more and would like to visit different places.
At the resumed hearing last week, the applicant company deleted the 10-day tours to the Scottish Lakes and Highlands. The Commissioners, in making the grant, stipulated that not more than six journeys should be made in each of the spring and autumn periods.
New Estate Services ANEW service between Aylesbury town centre and Verwood Road, in the new Elmhurst Estate, Aylesbury, has been applied for by Red Rover Omnibus Ltd., of Aylesbury. Elmhurst Estate lies in the angle between the Aylesbury— Buckingham and Aylesbury—Leighton Buzzard roads, and present plans are for the construction of 900 houses.
Under an agreement with the United Counties Omnibus Co. Ltd., Red Rover buses will serve the estate from the Buckingham Road side, and United Counties from the Leighton Buzzard Road, the two services eventually meeting at a common terminal in the ;state.