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Decisions Given on Four Appeals
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DECISIONS on four p.s.v. appeals were given this week by the Minister of Transport. In every case, he has turned down the operators' appeals and ordered them to pay the costs. Eastern Counties Omnibus Co.. Ltd., and Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., appealed unsuccessfully against a decision of the Eastern Traffic Commissioners. The Commissioners varied the conditions on certain of the appellants' stage and express licences to provide for their use of a new bus station in Colchester, when it is opened. The companies contested the routes into and out of the station laid down by the Commissioners. The Minister said he considered these, routes—the most direct ones—reasonable; it was up to the appellants to show why the more circuitous ones they preferred were best. Although the companies were likely to lose some 'revenue because of the changed routes, added the Minister. it was unlikely (as they had claimed) to be serious enough to affect the carriage of rural passengers. The second appeal failure was that of Mr. L. C Munsden, trading as Crown Coaches, of Hampstead Road, Brislington, Bristol, 4. He appealed against refusal by the Western Commissioners of an excursions and tours licence from Brislington. It appeared already to be well served with services which could either pick up there or could be reached by feeder routes. Nor, said the Minister. did it appear that the application would attract new traffic.
In the third appeal, a decision of the
North Western Commissioners was contested. Mr. Pryce and Mr. Owen Lloyd (P. and 0. Lloyd) objected to the grant of an excursions and tours licence to the administrators of E. H.' Phillips upon relinquishment of a similar licence to W. G. Richardson and Sons. Lloyds proposed either that the Phillips vehicle allowance should be cut or that three picking-up points should be deleted. The Minister saw no reason to do either of those things and therefore dismissed the appeal. " Smith's Luxury Coaches (Reading), Ltd., were appellants in the fourth unsuccessful appeal. They contested a decision of the South Eastern .Traffic Commissioners in refusing additional picking-up points' on the company's South Coast services, and to extend the Weymouth service. He considered, like his inspector, said the Minister, that a grant would have resulted in abstraction of traffic from excursions and tours run by Brirnblecombe Bros., Ltd.
The extent of the real need had been obscured, he commented, by Smith's illegal activities during 1959. Ownership of a garage in a particular area did not, of itself, entitle an operator to extend to that area, the Minister added, and he therefore could not agree to extension of the Weymouth service.
LEARNING TO BUY
THE Purchasing Officers Association is to hold a course for buyers in industrial and public undertakings at Jury's Hotel. Dublin, on October 28.