Licence Restricted on Appeal
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COLLOWING an appeal by three bus companies and the railways, the Minister of Transport has restricted the conditions of a licence authorizing Mr. Herbert A. Harvey to run period excursions and tours from Cottenham to Hastings.
An Order has been made on the Eastern Traffic Commissioners restricting the vehicle allowance to one on any occasion, and requiring that only persons who have booked for an inclusive tour of Hastings shall be carried.
The Minister agreed with his inspector, Mr. J. N. Glen, that no case was shown for a scale of operation exceeding, at least initially, one vehicle. He considered, however, that even that scale would constitute an abstraction from the appellants' traffic, which would not be justified in the public interest unless the service to be provided filled a type of need which the appellants' services could not satisfy.
As it was Mr. Harvey's intention to operate the service substantially as an inclusive tour, the Minister considered that it could be justified only if it were restricted to an inclusive tour.
Premier Travel, Ltd., Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.,'and Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., Were the ippellant companies,
It is four months' since the inquiry into the 'appeal was-held. bV Mr. Glen. It Was heard at Cambridge on November 21.
MR. VOSPER CLEARS THE AIR INVESTIGATIONS being made under 1 the auspices of the Medical Research Council into the nature and effects of the exhaust products of oil engines had provided no evidence to support suggestions that these fumes were a cause of cancer.
Mr. D. Vosper, Minister of Health, made this statement in the House of Commons on Monday. He hoped it would remove any misunderstanding which might have arisen as the result of a reply he gave to a supplementary question on February 4.
[When he was asked by Mr. G. Nabarro, on February 4, whether it was reasonable to suppose that oilengine fumes had a bearing on the development of lung cancer, Mr. Vosper replied: "1 think that is so . . . but the direct association between Diesel fumes and cancer has not been proved.1