SEMI-PRIVATE PARTY DIFFICULTIES
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DIFFICULTIES created for club and L./association tour organizers in Lancashire by the regulation that precludes advertising of private parties were again under discussion before the North-Western Traffic Commissioners, last Friday.
Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., applied for licences to operate vehicles for Bolton Holiday Week tours arranged by the Bolton Liberal Association. Despite the present political condition, it was stated that the association as as active as ever it had been. Tours by road had been organized since 1930. Mr. T. R. Williams (for Ribble Motor Services. Ltd.) said that it was really a question of private hire, but, in the past, the tours had been advertised for members and friends, which fact would bring them under the "advertising " clause in the 1934 Act.
Maintenance of interest, and not profit-making, was the object of the holidays, said Mr. H. Booth, the association secretary. The association had tried working through local operators at the destination, but had found that there were difficulties, owing to proprietors wishing to wait to fill up vacant seats with individual passengers.
Objection on behalf of various operators was voiced by Mt. J. S. Howarth, who said that the hiring out of coaches to the association on the basis of vehicle mileage might lead to the undercutting of individual fares.
The Commissioners refused the application, MANCHESTER BUSES ATTRACT THE PUBLIC.
SAVING TIME AT EXTENDEDTOUR HEARINGS. DURING discussions before the NorthWestern Commissioners, last Friday, regarding the date of future hearings of extended-tours applications, it was suggested that the chairmen from the other areas concerned (South-Eastern and Western) should be present, in these particular instances, so as to obviate repetition of evidence and arguments. The North-Western Commissioners' chairman (Mr. W. Chamberlain) intimated that he would be meeting his fellow chairmen in a few days and would raise the matter with them