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Grey-Green refused additional centred tours
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• Applications for new excursions and tours by Grey-Green Coaches Ltd and Orange Luxury Coaches Ltd have been refused in a written decision by Mr D. I. R.. Muir, chairman of the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners. The two companies sought authority to operate six tours of eight-day duration centred at Colwyn Bay, Llangollen, Morecambe, Scarborough, Southport and York. In addition they asked for three tours covering the Christmas period to Bath, the Wye Valley and York, which have also been refused.
At the public sitting on June 22-24, Mr T. F. McLachlan, general manager of the applicant companies, stated that the new tours were sought to be made on 10 occasions each, during the period March 1-October 31 so that they would be available either for main season holidays .or for holidays taken early or late in the year.
Previously, centred tours had been operated by the company by utilizing existing express licences. or in some cases by operating as far as possible over an authorized express route, the coach then being hired to another operator in order to complete the journey. The new application was for excursion and tours licences, however.
The objectors (Wallace Arnold, Midland Red, Crosville, Eastern National, Galleon, Glenton, Southdown, Tillings Travel and Standerwick) argued that by making these applications, Grey-Green and Orange Luxury Coaches were in breach of an undertaking given to Mr Muir on March 23 1962 by Mr Speight in the following terms; ". . the member companies of the Ewer group will not in the future apply for the operation of tours of longer duration than three days".
This was conditional on there being no objections made to Ewer group applications for twoor three-day tours by Southdown, Wallace Arnold, the Workers Travel Association and Glenton.
In his written decision Mr Muir states: "We think that technically and legally there has been a breach of the undertaking on this occasion and on a previous occasion but that nevertheless it is possible to take a more charitable view, It is not for us to comment on the wisdom of entering into an undertaking of this sort which on the face of it bars the applicant companies for all time from entering into a particular kind of activity...
"What Mr Speight might not have appreciated and what apparently the present general manager and his advisers do not appreciate is the difference between centred tours based on licensed express services and centred tours authorized on excursion and tours licences."
Dismissing the applications on the basis that there was not sufficient evidence of support for the proposed tours, Mr Muir stated that anyone keen to take a holiday in any of the six destinations could do so without much difficulty unless they were incapacitated in one way or another from travelling to the Victoria or King's Cross coach stations. For them there were th( facilities to a limited number of destinations provided by the applicants but from a large number of picking-up points.
Finally, as there was no public support for Christmas tours the applications for them must also be refused, Mr Muir stated