Clash on Service Retiming

21st September 1962, Page 86

21st September 1962

Page 86

Page 86, 21st September 1962 — Clash on Service Retiming

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FEAR of abstraction on their PenycaeWrexham stage carriage service was expressed by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., at Chester last week when they objected to an application by E. Wright and Son. To improve facilities for people living on a nearby housing estate, and enable passengers to travel to Wrexham by 9 a.m., the applicants wished to vary and retime some of their Penycae-Wrexham services, the first of which left at 8.50 a.m.

Mr. G. P. Crowe, for Crosville, pointed out that if Wright's service departed five minutes after theirs, workers who they had carried for years would be abstracted. The application was calculated to poach traffic.

" We want to serve the public and enable them to get to work in time," replied Mr. Wright. A counter-application by Crosville Motor Services was also before the Traffic Commissioners. It was identical in content to that of Wright's and Mr. T. E. Elwin, divisional manager, claimed that it was necessary if they were to retain what traffic they had. If Wright's application was granted they would be bound to suffer from traffic abstraction.

The chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, Major-General A. F. J. Elmslie, refused the application by Wright and Sons and adjourned that of Crosville. However, he agreed that the retiming would be convenient for the public and suggested that Crosville, by agreement with Mr. Wright, should operate the morning service with one of their, duplicate vehicles.