Valliant Seeks Four-day Dutch Tours
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among passengers on oneand two-day tours of Holland revealed that for many of them the trip was too short, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner was told in London on Tuesday:.
Valliant Direct Coaches Ltd; applied for a licence to operate eight round trips of four-day duration to Holland in April and May. starting next year. The firm also applied for a feeder service and the use of its usual picking-up points in the Shepherds Bush. Ealing and Harrow areas. The Commissioner reserved his decision.
Objectors were Southdown Motor Services Ltd.. East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. and Glenton Tours Ltd.
Mr. James Amphlett, for Valliant. said thatat no time on the tour service would more than two of the firm's vehicles be on the road. The maximum number of seats available on the service would be 32g. This was a very limited application. There was a demand for four-day trips to the Dutch bulb fields, he added. and Valliant had West London as a catchment area with a population of more than 1m.
Mr. Ernest Cottrell, a courier on the Holland tours, said that one traveller on a one-day trip described it as art endurance test ". He thought four days was a satisfactory duration for a tour of Holland and that seven days could be too long.
Mr. G. Duckworth, for Southdown. said the company was afraid the applicant might invade the acknowledged market of extended tours lasting for more than three days. It must be accepted that large operators worked from a central point, he continued; in Southdown's case this was Victoria. It would be chaotic if instead of operating from a central point firms were required to send coaches out from Victoria to Ealing. Harrow and elsewhere.