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Works Services Not Always Possible

27th February 1959
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A LTHOUGH the public naturally pre fer to have express bus services direct from their homes to places of employment, this cannot always be arranged. Mr. F. Williamson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, pointed this out at Manchester, last week, when decision was reserved on an application by Mr. J. Williams, Manchester (The Commercial Motor, January 23).

Mr. Williams had previously asked for a short-term licence to carry employees from Wigan to the Hindsford factory of Ward and Goldstone. Ltd., but at last week's hearing a substantive application was put forward.

For Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., Mr. T. Boardman, a traffic assistant, outlined L.U.T. Services between Wigan and Hindsford. He said that Mr. Williams had operated illegally in the past with the result that L.U.T. traffic had fallen. Mr. Boardman admitted that in bad weather buses were sometimes late and passengers had to stand, but contended that this was not serious. A company inspector, Mr. F. Wilson, .said he had often asked people if they were satisfied with L.U.T. services and had always been told that there were no complaints.

Mr. W. Blackhurst, for L.U.T., submitted that no allegation against the com pany had been substantiated. It was strange, he added, that Mr. Williams should not know that a licence was needed for a new service when he had himself been a bus driver. It would be wrong to grant facilities to a man who had blatantly broken the law and abstracted traffic from L.U.T.

Mr. D. Godfrey Nowell, for Mr. Williams. said the irregularities had been committed in good faith, so the case should be considered on its merits. To get a better service workers at the factory had approached their employers, L.U.T., and their local M.P. They could have done nothing more.


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