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THE CARLISLE TO NEWCASTLE SERVICE.

27th November 1928
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A Ministry of Transport Inquiry Follows the Newcastle Corporation's Refusal of Licences.

ACARLISLE concern's application for licences at Newcastle, to enable it to work a limited-stop service between Carlisle and the Tyneside

capital, and a refusal on the part the Newcastle licensing authority resulted in an important Ministry of Transport inquiry recently being held in that city. The appellant, Fairer and Panlder, Ltd., was represented by Mr. Percy L. Frankham and the Newcastle Corporation case was stated by Mr. Philip Harrold.

Mr. Frankham mentioned that Ferrer and Faulder, Ltd., sought licences to run four vehicles, and the company was quite willing to run into the city by any route which the corporation might define and to charge an agreed fare between Newcastle and Hexham so as to avoid competition. with the municipal bus service in that

• area. Since October last it had made . repeated applications "for licences, . which had been , turned down on the ground of the adequacy of the service provided by Messrs. Emerson Bros. To this Mr. Frankham observed that, as he would prove by evidence, Messrs. Emerson Bros, had, from time to time, been obliged to supplement thfir fleet by hired vehicles from Carlisle in order to cope with the available traffic. Mr: Fame in giving evidence said he was prepared to open up his service at the beginning of next year if the licences were granted. His service, he said, would not cause any hardship to Messrs. Emerson Bros. • Mr. Harrold told the inspector that the Newcastle Watch Committee was

• dealing with the route systematically and proposed, at the end of this year, to survey the whole position and then to consider all applications for licences, in relation to the volume of traffic over the route. There were four applications for licences now before the committee. A census taken recently indicated that the existing service wag adequate for the requirements of people using the route, but the whole situation

would be considered in December. Considering licensing matters generally, he said that there were hundreds of applications in respect of nearly every route into the city.

Mr. Harrold's statement was corroborated by the chief constable cf Newcastle (Mr. P. J. Crawley) who spoke of the dangers cf traffic congestion in the west end of the city and said he was opposed to the issuing of further licences for vehicles coming from the West Tyne district. because of the already excessive volume of traffic along Scotswood Road, the main artery from that direction.

It was eventually resolved to adjourn the inquiry until January 18th, in order to give the licensing authority an opportunity of reconsidering the whole licensing question between now and the end of December.


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