First municipal tours licence?
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• Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Transport is thought to be the first municipal operator in the UK to get an excursion and tours licence. The Corporation has just completed a deal for the purchase of the 10-coach business of E. N. Hadwin, of Ulverston.
The Corporation bought the business last week — for an undisclosed sum — because Ulverston lies eight miles outside the urban area. After local government reorganization next year it will be controlled by the Greater Cumbrian area. Over 75 per cent of Hadwin's services — which include licences for football matches, hiking tours, holiday routes and a service to Manchester airport — carry Barrow people. The Corporation felt that control of the company — relinquished after 54 years by 89-year-old Edgar Hadwin — should remain within Barrow. The 10 Bedford VAL coaches will remain in their existing livery.