More Vehicles for Excursions
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ANaPPlication.for additional vehicles for excursions and tours run from Weston-super-Mare was last week granted to Burnells Motors (1947), Ltd., Clevedon, by the Western Traffic Commissioners.
Mr. I. D. Williams, for Messrs. W. E. Williams and Son, Weston-super-Mare, objected on the ground that additional vehicles were not necessary. He said there had been occasions when his firm had had several vehicles doing nothing while Burnells had called in vehicles from their depots at Bristol, Clcvedon and Burnham-on-Sea.
Mr. Williams explained that there was a system in Weston under which operators informed each other, by telephone at midday, whenever they had a surplus of customers, in order that tey would all be catered for.
For the applicants, Mr. T. D. Corpe asked Mr. Williams, who was a dance' band player, whether he did not sometimes prefer playing the trombone to driving •a coach, and added that he seemed to spend plenty of time away from his business. Mr. Williams denied this suggestion. He said his driver was employed on a five-day week and often worked longer Granting the application, Mr. S. W. Nelson, chairman, said it was difficult to contact other operators. "On several occasions during the summer, when Mr. Williams is engaged on private jobs, the demand is thrown on other operators. They then fill the gap left by him.
"There arc 61 vehicles operating in this popular seaside town and it is our business.to see that there are sufficient facilities for holidaymakers, otherwisi they will go elsewhere."
PORTSMOUTH TRAFFIC REVIEW
ASPECTS of Portsmouth's traffic problems will be reviewed at a meeting to be held on November 13 at Kimbells Corner House Restaurant and arranged by the Portsmouth Area of the Traders' Road Transport 'Association. Civic officers will attend and the Institute of Transport, the Institute of Traffic Administration, the Road Haulage Association and the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association will be represented.
Mr. J. G. Wardrop, ofthe Road Research Laboratory, will lecture on the causes of traffic congestion.