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Florence Motors Get New Licence for Eire Tours : Batty-Holt Object

3rd October 1958, Page 74
3rd October 1958
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Page 74, 3rd October 1958 — Florence Motors Get New Licence for Eire Tours : Batty-Holt Object
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Nottingham Loadtng Ban Brings Protests

DROTESTS against Nottingham's pro posals for banning loading and unloading in certain streets from 8.15 a.m. to 9.15 a.m. and 5.15 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. were heard last week by the East Midlands Divisional Committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association.

A report from a special meeting of Nottingham members said serious difficulties would arise if the ban were imposed. It called upon the committee to take steps to resist the proposals.

The report suggested that the authorities should experiment further with a scheme which would not exclude the waiting of goods vehicles engaged solely on collections or deliveries. Cllr. W. G. E. Dyer, divisional secretary, agreed to negotiate with other interested bodies in an effort to prevent the proposals being put into practice.

VEHICLE BUILDERS' AWARD

V1EHICLE builders are to receive V higher fbay. Under an agreement signed last week skilled men get 2d. an hour more, semi-skilled workers lid., and unskilled men and women 1d. ANEW licence for Eire tours lasting one week and a fortnight was granted last week to Florence Motors, Ltd., Oldham. The North Western Traffic Commissioners agreed that the maximum number of vehicles to be operated on any one day should be two, and that the period of operation should be Easter to October.

Picking-up points were approved at Morecambe, Galgate, G a r stan g, Broughton, Preston, Wigan. Bolton, Manchester and Knutsford.

• Mr. S. Moss, for Florence, said they realized that Batty-Holt Touring Services, Ltd., had a licence to operate Irish tours, but the only picking-up points in common would be Preston, Wigan, Bolton and Manchester. The rail journey to Holyhead usually involved at least three changes, and it was Florence's aim to provide comfortable, leisurely tours. No alternative facilities were available and there would be ample traffic from the territory the company served.

Mr. R. R. Renton, managing director, told _Mr. H. Backhouse, for Batty-Holt, that the two vehicles required would be used only for Irish tours. To this, Mr. Backhouse pointed out that hotel accommodation in Eire was limited which would cause Florence considerable difficulty.

A Batty-Holt director, Mr. A. Bolton, reminded the Commissioners that their tours were really experimental and, so far. they had proved a costly proposition. For one thing there had not been the-expected demand. Mr. Moss replied that BattyBolt should not think they had an exclusive right to run seven Irish -tours when other companies also -wanted to satisfy the public.

Railway Abstraction Mi. P. Iverson, a British Railways superintendent, claimed that people using the railWays to travel to Eire might be seriously affected by this bulk tourist traffic. Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the railways, submitted that there had been no evidence of public reaction, so it was likely that the licence would be no good to Florence even if the application were granted.

Mr. Backhouse submitted that the proposed road fare of it I7s. 6d. was grossly inadequate and would result in uneconomic competition. Batty-Holt did not want any difficulty to arise with -regard to ship and hotel accommodation.

Granting the application, Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said Batty-Holt did not run 14-day tours, and their services started at night. Florence proposed to begin on Sunday mornings. He stipulated that the new licence, like Battybit's, should come up for renewal on November 30, 1959.


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