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FURTHER ADDITION TO BARR GROUP
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QUBJECT to the sanction of the' 1..1-Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, negotiations have been completed for Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds, to take over the coach business of J. W. North, Ltd., Bradford, which is associated with the firm of Messrs. Holdsworth and Burrhill. The North concern's goods-transport activities are not involved in the transaction.
The acquisition of North's passenger business by the Wallace Arnold company will Mean a further addition to the Barr group' of Yorkshire companies, of which the governing director is Mr. Robert Barr. This group already includes five concerns. The Barr group has been handling a considerable amount of Bradford passenger and goods traffic, and will now have an additional booking office in _Great Horton Road, Bradford, and will acquire seven 32-seater coaches • (three Albion, two A.E.C. and two Leyland Lion) from North's.
Another important development of the activities of the Barr group is the launching, this year, of an extensive programme of Continental coach tours. Following a successful experiment in Continental tours, last year, Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., is, this season, running four such trips to Germany, two being for 16 days and two for nine days. Wallace Arnold's own vehicles will he used on the Continent.
To make a personal investigation of the possibilities of developing Continental tours, Mr. Barr will leave, in May, for a three-week visit to Belgium, Germany and Austria.
CAR AS EXPRESS CARRIAGE : HIGH COURT DECISION.
AN appeal against a decision of the Grimstone (Norfolk) justices was .heard by a King's Bench Divisional 'Court, on Tuesday, when Mr. C. Goad, an official under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, contended that they had wrongly dismissed a summons against Mr. A. L. Coker, Great Massingham.
Mr. Wilfrid Lewis (for the appellant) said that Mr. Coker hired a car for 10s. to a Mr. Hazel, who, with his wife, wanted to go to King's Lynn. Mr. Coker drove the car and permitted Mr. Hazel to invite three other people to take part in the "outing." Mr. Hazel collected 2s. from each of those persons. Legal proceedings were taken because the car was being used as an express carriage without a licence. The defence, which the magistrates accepted, was that the vehicle was a contract carriage.
Mr. Justice Avory, giving judgment, said the car was not a contract carriage, because each passenger paid his own fare to Mr. Hazel, with Mr. Coker's knowledge. The case should be remitted to the justices to find the offences proved. An appeal against a refusal of the justices to convict Mr. Hazel of causing the vehicle to be so used was also allowed.