No Licences for Agents: Case Not Made Out
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T RAVEL agents should not he granted 1 road service licences. They were in a privileged position between operators and the public, and in a position to abstract good will.
This was submitted to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds on Monday by Mr. Frank Marshall, for Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., who objected to the application by Halcyon Tours (Hull), Ltd., for a new excursion licence to operate Continental tours from Hull in 1960 (The Commercial Motor, November 6).
Mr.. A. Carver, managing director of Halcyon Tours, agreed that of the total of 52 bookings during 1959, only six were for the Continent. The company already had bookings for six coaches to take private parties to the Continent in 1960, he added.
Commenting on Mr. Carver's claim that he had never seen Wallace Arnold's facilities advertised in the Hull Daily Mail, Mr. J. Malcolm Barr, assistant managing director of Wallace Arnold, said that they advertised on 18 occasions in 1959.
Mr. G. P. Crowe, for British Railways, who also objected, claimed that the private-party work, on which the Commissioners were being asked to make a grant, was illegal operation. Under the 1956 Act all arrangements for private parties had to be made by the organizers, not the operators.
Announcing the refusal of the application, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman, said that no case had been made out. The demand from Hull was met by existing facilities.