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Excursion Operator Opposes Express Grant
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additional picking-up point at Little Hulton, on the express route between Manchester and Blackpool, would be the equivalent of granting period returns to Blackpool from that area, because of the unlimited duplication allowed, to the detriment of local excursions.
This was submitted to the North Western Traffic Commissioners, at Manchester, last week, by Mr. H. Backhouse, for Mills and Seddon, Ltd., Farnworth, who objected to the application by the joint operators, Lancashire 'united Transport, Ltd., Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and North Western Road Car Co., Ltd.
Mr. W. Blackhurst, for the applicants, said Little Hulton with four new estates housing Salford's overspill, was rapidly becoming an important population centre. The nearest picking-up point was at Walkden, I+ miles away, and the application was made at the request of Worsley Urban District Council, for Little Hulton people wanting to travel to Chorley, Preston and Blackpool.
The applicants provided all the stagecarriage services in the area and also " held excursion licences for Walkden and Little Hulton.
Mr. Backhouse, asking for figures of eacursions operation by the applicants from Little Hutton, said they had an allowance of five vehicles daily.
They had never had period returns In Blackpool from Little Hulton, and if there were a genuine need, additional vehicles should be granted to the local operators, Mills and Seddon, and Morecambe and Blackpool restrictions r em cry e d from their licence. As operators in the district since 1920, they were entitled to protection.
The hearing was adjourned.
BUS SERVICES MAY BE REFORMED 'THE increasing number of private cars I was a factor which would have to he taken into greater account in the future, as it might well affect the form of the company's services. This was stated by Mr. R. W. Birch, chairman of the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., in annual report last week.
In the year under review, the number passengers carried dropped to 81m., although this figure compared favourably with the record pre-war figure of 42m. Although the company had applied to make permanent some of the reduct'ons in their services, introduced at the time of the Suez crisis, they would ,till be running about 45 per cent, of their services at a loss if the cuts were authorized.
Mr. Birch hoped that the principle of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Temporary Increase) Act, 1956, would soon be extended to cover the circumstances arising from all sudden rises in costs. This would avoid the unfortunate time lags between applying for higher fares and their authorization.