Extended Tours for New Company Refused : Excursions Continue
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AT a Manchester hearing last week it was stated that Fargher and Wallis, coach operators, Salford, was set up in 1926 and Mr. I. E. Fargher had now formed the limited company of Fargher and Wallis, Ltd. But Mr. A. E. Whitehead, for the applicants, said the changeover was not a "hidden device" of any kind.
He said they wanted their existing excursions and tours to continue under the limited company's licence.
Extended tours which Mr. Fargher also proposed to operate were not comparable with any of those run by the three objectors.
In evidence, Mr. Fargher said the reason he had formed the limited company was to extend his business. The sole directors and shareholders were his wife "and himself and no other parties had, as yet, entered the business. Before the war he had run extended tours a great deal,. but since then they had not been operated so inuckL Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, objecting for Batty-Holt Touring Services, Ltd.; Happiway Tours, Ltd.; and Smith's Tours (Wigan), Ltd., asked why no record of extended tour operation since 1940 had been produced. Mr. Fargher replied that they had all been destroyed during the blitz.
There was no evidence that any tours had been operated recently, said Mr. Dunkerley, and he considered that the licence was not being used. He submitted that some continuity of work should be shown and some figures or documents should be produced. It would be wrong to authorize extended tours after such a Long gap in operation.
The chairman, Mr. F. Williamson, said that, subject to the applicants producing the articles of incorporation and the memorandum and articles of association of the limited company, Fargher and Wallis, Ltd., would be allowed to continue the day excursion& He refused to grant the extended tours.