Abbey Coachways appeal
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• The facilities for passengers from Selby wishing to join Wallace Arnold's extended tours at Leeds were inadequate, it was said at an appeal before an MoT inspector, Mr. J. R. Willis, at Leeds on Tuesday.
Abbey Coachways Ltd., of Selby, was appealing against the decision of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to refuse it additional tours starting from Selby, to Hastings, Isle of Wight, Southsea and Bude.
Mr. Walker, representing Abbey Coachways, said the inadequate facilities and the fact that he felt the Traffic Commissioners had misdirected themselves on the adequacy of rural bus services available, were the grounds of appeal.
Mr. Walker said it was proposed to introduce sevenand eight-day tours to each destination twice a year.
Passengers had to make an early start from Selby to connect with the excursions operated by Wallace Arnold Tours, said Mr. Walker, and even then the margin "cut it pretty close".
In Selby urban and rural areas there was a population of more than 18,000 and although accepting that a catchment area should be larger for extended tours than day excursion, Mr. Walker submitted, Selby was too far from Leeds to be described as its catchment area.
For the respondents, Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Mr. J. E. Hanson, said the question of Sunday facilities had no relevance because there was no evidence that anybody required Sunday travel. He said that Wallace Arnold went to considerable length to make sure the passengers caught the connection in Leeds and there had been no complaints.
Wallace Arnold's evidence of bookings from Selby was that an abstraction of traffic would result if the appellant succeeded.
Although it was a very modest application, Mr. Walker said he had been instructed to say a limited grant of perhaps one tour per year to each destination would be acceptable to start with.