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Over 1,200 Want Torquay Service
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'typ-iEN Mr. C. G. Littlewood, a VY Sheffield coach operator who, in January, was granted permission to operate an express service to Torquay from June to August (The Commercial Motor, January 15), applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority to use two extra vehicles, he said that there were more than 1,200 people on the waiting list for his service.
He also asked for the' period of operation to be extended to include May and September. and for unlimited duplication during Sheffield and Rotherham holiday weeks.
Associated Motorways, West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and British Railways objected. Mr. Littlewood said that people began to queue 16 hours before he opened bookings at 9.45 a.m. on January 18, and by 3 p.m. he had sold all the 650 seats permitted under the original grant.
A large number of old-age pensioners wanted to go to Torquay in May and September because they were granted concessions.
A fortnight before the application was due to be heard he had a list of 1,205 people wishing to use his service for whom he could not provide seats, and since then several hundreds more had applied.
Replying to Mr. A. Keating, for British Railways, Mr. Littlewood said he had 400 old people travelling in one week during May, and there was a waiting list of 200 for another week.
Mr. 0. Gladwin, for British Railways, said an offer had been made to the Sheffield Council of ,.Soetal Service to carry old people to Torquay for a fare of £2 12s. return in May and September, but they were told that a coach operator had offered a fare of £2 10s.
Asked why they had not told old people's organizations that they proposed to introduce the cheap fare, Mr. Gladwin said they thought the Council of Social Service would do so, but they did not seem interested.
Another spokesman for the railways said they would be prepared to run special trains for old-age pensioners if there were sufficient of them.
Mr. Keating and Mr. W. Hargreave, for the objecting coach operators, submitted that a case had not been made for the application.
The Authority, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, said a decision would be reached as soon as possible.