Coach-Air Link for Happiway
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COACH-AIR tours were the subject of a series of applications by Happiway Tours (Manchester), Ltd., concluded at Manchester on Monday. Last June the company had been given permission to operate services from East Street (Manchester) coach station to Ringway Airport for passengers who were to be conveyed by charter aircraft to Holland. They had then applied for their Yorkshire licence to be amended, by the addition of a feeder service into Manchester with picking-up points at Bradford, Halifax and Todmorden, and this application was granted a week ago.
Mr. J. Booth, for the applicants, stated that they now wanted permission to convey the Yorkshire passengers from Manchester to Ringway on , the same coach as the North Western area passengers. In addition to this they wanted to pick up passengers at Rochdale, Hyde, Oldham and Ashton on the Yorkshire coach, provided that there were sufficient seats. Happiway's already had a feeder service with unlimited duplication from these towns into Manchester, but if this could be combined with the Yorkshire feeder it would mean that only one vehicle need be operated.
Mr. E. Harrison, Happiway's manager, pointed out that they had a licence in the North Western area to carry passengers from East Street to Ringway iH connection with five Continental tours. If they were not allowed to combine 'passengers from different areas in one vehicle, it would result in uneconomic operation. At was really a way of "tidying up" their licences.
Objections were put forward by British Railways, but the chairman of the North Western Commissioners, Mr. F. Williamson, granted the application.