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Passenger Transport
MORE LICENCE BATTLES IN SOUTH WALES
Another Series of Appeals to the Ministry Has Been Heard at Swansea SOUT" WALES continues to be the centre of a large proportion of the disputes in respect of road-service licences, and once again Mr. N. A. J. Cohen, representing the Ministry of Transport, has conducted the hearing of a batch of appeals at Swansea.
The first was that of N.C. Luxury Coaches, Ltd., Swansea, against Swansea Corporation's refusal of licences in respect of the Swansea-Neath-Cardiff route. The appellant company claimed to be first on this route and asserted that whilst three•of its applications for licences had been refused, a local concern had been given preference. The company also complained of having licences in respect of its SwanseaLondon route refused by the Swansea authority. A joint Cardiff-Swansea service operated by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., and the Western Welsh Omnibus Co.' Ltd., had been authorized by Cardiff Corporation.
The town clerk, speaking for Swansea Corporation, said that, when the company's application in respect of the Swansea-London route was made, there were in all eight applications respecting
this particular route. Five were rejected, whilst licences were granted to a local company and to two others which, operated from London. Subsequently, when the company applied for licences fOr the Swansea-Neath-Cardiff Mute; the application was turned down because the committee thought existing
c42 services to be adequate. It was also felt that a joint service between the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., and
the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd.,• would be a more satisfactory arrangement.
An appeal was made by the Imperial Motor Co., of Abercynon, in respect of Swansea Corporation's refusal of sanction to ply for hire in Swansea
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routes from Pontypridd, Aliercynon and Neath to Swansea. It was stated that all the other authorities concerned had granted licences and there was no reason for sanction being withheld by • the Swansea authority, it being mentioned that, when the company's application for licences for the route connecting Swansea and gerthyr, vie. Ne,ath, -was refused, the watch committee later granted licences to the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd. The town clerk, supporting the corporation's attitude, urged the adequacy of existing facilities.
A further appeal was that of Messrs, John Brothers, Groveseml; who had applied unsuccessfully to Swansea Corporation for licences for a cross-town service from Lonlas to Morriston Cross, 1,e., from the east boundary to the west boundary of the borough, the object of such a service being to connect tin the company's existing services and to pro
vide a through service between Neath and Llanelly. Passengers found it inconvenient to change buses at the borough boundaries. The case for the corporation was that there were plenty of facilities between the boundaries, and It was stated that the appellants had been convicted 14 times for illegal plying for hire.
The results of these hearings will be announced in due course in the pages of The Commercial Motor.