Small Man Beats Big Objectors
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AFTER a two-day hearing, the owner of three coaches, Mr. John Haldane, Glasgow, gained permission from the Scottish Licensing Authority last week to run additional tours from Cathcart to six Scottish centres in the face of opposition by the railways and big coach companies.
Mr. John Allan, for the railways. objected to the proposed tours to 65t. Andrews and the Three Lochs.
"What," he asked, " will happen to our steamer services if there is further abstraction of passengers in this way?"
MY. H. R. Black, traffic manager of -Lowland Cruises, maintained that tours starting from the city itself needed all the passengers they could get because they often ran at • only two-thirds capacity.
" If tour centres arc to be strung throughout the suburbs," he said,
" there will he no touring facilities left in the city centre for the passing tourist • tt ade."
Mr. Thomas McMain, traffic manager, W. Alexander and Son, Ltd.,
objected to the proposed service to St. .Andrews. "Our own service is not 'remunerative," he told the conrt, "and we need every passenger to maintain it."
• Opposition also came from Mr. Cl. D. Ramsay, -of the Western S.M.T: Co., Ltd. He said that his company sometimes cancelled unremunerative trips and sent passengers to other companies rUnning similar journeys.
-.Mr. James Law, for Mr. Haldane, asked Mr. Ramsay: "Are you suggesting that people must be satisfied with your tours and nothing else?".
Mr. Ramsay: " 1 maintain they are satisfied. Mr. Haldane will soon have as many tours as there are from the city."
MORE TRANSPORTERS TO AVOID DAMAGE
WHEN South Birmingham Deliveries, Ltd., Rubery, were 'granted a licence by the West Midland Licensing Authority last week to run four additional car transporters, it was claimed that the company were trying to obviate complaints that cars delivered by drivers under trade plates were arriving
• damaged at their destinations.
Mr. D. E. Skelding, for the company, said that only two transporters were being operated by the concern, who employed upwards of 40 men to deliver about 200 Austin cars a week.
The company had found . it highly uneconomical to deliver cars under trade plates because of the insurance and the number of accidents in which the cars were involved. • To keep up with the demand, the company needed eight transporters, but capital expenditure was keeping down the number, as the lorries cost More than £3,000 each.