PART-GRANT FOR FOOTBALL EXCURSIONS
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LAST week the Metropolitan Licensing LA Authority, Mr. D. L R. Muir, granted in part an application by B. A. Ward (Travel Services) Ltd. for an excursion licence to carry supporters of Leyton Orient Football Club to away fixtures.
Mr. Brian A. Ward, the company's general manager, asked for licences to carry supporters to games at Ipswich, Norwich, Southampton, Coventry and Wolverhampton. A grant was made for three of these.
• The application had come about as a result of inquiries from the club, for whom they carried the team and officials to away matches on a private-hire basis, said Mr. Ward. His company owned one coach, with another on order, and he had previously carried only as a subcontractor and on private hire.
He had been licensed to carry on one previous occasion, at the club's game with Charlton last September, said Mr. Ward. Then, the application had been made late and was granted only the day before the match. Only 18 passengers had been carried.
Mr. T. F. McLaughlan, objecting for George Ewer and Co. Ltd., said the company ran a scheduled express service to Ipswich on Saturdays. It had licences to carry for five London teams and for some years the number of passengers had been declining. George Ewer had carried for Leyton when the team was in the first division of the Football League and there had been no demand since the team's relegation.
British Railways and London Transport also objected.
In an application for haulage licences by R. H. Lavender before the deputy LA, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, a decision was reserved.