Cheap Continental Tours Needed
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'THE Northern Traffic Commissioners I have decided that there is a demand for cheap Continental tours from Middlesbrough, Redcar and Billingham. They have granted applications by Mr. R. L. Hardwick, Jubilee Road, Eston, for eight-day tours from those places to Ostend and Blankenberghe, via Dover. Outings will be provided in conjunction with Ostend operators running daily excursions in Belgium and Holland.
The return fare to Dover will be £3 15s. The tour to Ostend will cost £17 17s. and to Blankenberghe, £18 18s. inclusive.
In a written decision, the Com missioners say that Mr. Hardwick's tours would not interfere with the luxury tours run by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., whose minimum price for a continental eight-day trip, including Paris and Ostend, is £30. He is to be allowed to run one vehicle.
Mr. Hardwick's application was sup ported by evidence of private parties which he had taken since 1952 to Ostend and Blankenberghe. The Commissioners say that their grant is not to he regarded as a decision which accepts evidence of private hire as necessarily supporting an application for road service licences.
The licences will be current for only a year and a condition has been imposed to prevent their falling into the hands of a limited company or any person other than Mr. Hardwick.
" We are . satisfied that the persons likely to travel on Mr. Hardwick's services would not travel at all for this sort of holiday by railway," the Commissioners state.