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Warders back bus service
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MEMBERS of the staff of Gartree Prison, Leicestershire, gave evidence at a traffic court at Nottingham last week in support of an application by Mr. William Bird, of W. L. Bird and Son, of Theddingworth, to run an express service between Foxton village and Market Harborough, via the prison.
Two other companies, Midland Red, and N and S. Coaches Ltd., opposed the application, claiming that existing services were adequate. After a director of N and S. Coaches, Mr. T. W. Curnoe, told the Commissioners that he would approach the prison authorities to arrange extra services, the application was refused.
Mr. Bird, a partner in the company, told the court that he had been approached about running a service by members of the Prison Warders' Association. He said he had received a letter from the prison governor which welcomed his application and said the withdrawal of a trial service by N and S. Coaches had left the prison without a bus service.
Maj. Stephen Holland, a member of Foxton Parish Council, said the village had made continual efforts over the past 10 years to get more buses but without success. He claimed that since Mr. Bird had made his application, Midland Red had diverted their Saturday service through Foxton with "immense success".
But he agreed with Mr. Curnoe that another operator providing a regular village service some years before had gone bankrupt. And he also agreed that N and S. Coaches, at a village meeting in Foxton, had produced figures showing that such a service was not economic.