Restaurant Owner Seeks Licence
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A N application by a restaurant pro-, prietor to the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, at Birmingham last week, for facilities to pick up people from their homes in Birmingham and Smethwick and take them to a holiday camp was adjourned. A large proportion • of the passengers, it was _said, would be, elderly, or crippled people who could not travel by ordinary transport.
Mr. Derrick Gresswood Boyett, Thimblemill Road, Smethwick, sought an express licence to operate between Thirnblemill Road and Palin's Holiday Camp, Foryd, Rhyl. The proposal was for operation on Saturdays and Sundays: between May 1 and September 30, a : vehicle allowance of one 11-seater and return fares £2 5s. for adults and £1 10s. for children. During the hearing Mr. Boyett intimated that he would be prepared to reduce the proposed children's fare to £1 2s. 6d: Objections were received from British Railways, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and five other coach operators.
For the applicant, Mr. Colin Coode said that Mr. Boyett had tried to operatehis scheme without authority because he was ignorant of the law. He had paid the penalty for that, and now wanted to put his house in order. Mr. Boyett would assist passengers with, their luggage and attend to their needs on the journey.
Giving an instance of the proposed service, Mr. Coode said that one potential passenger was a lady who suffered from' asthma. She could go nowhere without an oxygen cylinder, and because of the size of the cylinder she could not travel by ordinary transport. Passengers would B8 be prepared to pay slightly higher fares for the extra facilities, he added. • Mr. Doyen said that he bought an 11seater to operate his scheme last year. He had three caravans at the holiday camp, and proposed to acquire two more. He began taking ,people to his caravans, but was fined £20 last year. " I advertised in all the papers that transport was provided, and I did not think I was committing an offence," he said.
Announcing the adjournment, Mr. W. P. James, chairman, said it was evident that on occasions the coach could be entirely filled by members of one family and their luggage. In such circumstances, provided one person was paying the entire cost of the journey, no licence would be required.