BRADFORD CORPORATION APPLIES TO PROHIBIT COMPETITION
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Municipality Requests Complete Protection Against Local Plying by Other Companies ON behalf of Bradford Corporation, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, sitting at Huddersfield, were asked to prohibit the picking up and setting down of passengers by other bus-operating concerns on any journey served by the corporation. Protective fares, it was explained, were not desired.
Hebble Bus Services, in which the L.M.S. and L.N.E.R. companies are interested, applied for licences for services between Halifax and Bradford, it being submitted that this was the only stage
carriage service between these two towns. For the applicants it was suggested that an additional penny on the fare was sufficient protection for the Allerton trolley-buses of Bradford Corporation on the Bradford-Bingley route, but the corporation contended that such a protection was inadequate and that it was entitled to prohibition