Fantails for Americans
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PERMISSION to run one-day fantail tours from Inverness during May and September was granted to Thomas Cook and Sons, Ltd., by the Scottish Licensing Authority, sitting in Glasgow.
It was stated that there was so little first-class hotel accommodation in the Highlands that on the company's 13-day tours from London to Scotland, two nights had to be spent in Inverness. The local tours were to be run from that centre. Most of the tourists were : Americans and they would not come in large numbers unless hOtel accommodation with private bathrooms was guaranteed.
Three local operators objected.
B.T.C. OFFER TO TILLING MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS
AN offer has been made by the British Transport Commission to buy out the minority shareholders in the Tilling group of companies. The offer should already be in the hands of shareholders.
The Commission says that it has always been its intention that shareholders be given' the opportunity of selling out at prices linked as closely as possible to that paid for the interests of Thomas Tilling, Ltd.
The price will be settled in British Transport Three per cent. Guaranteed stock, 1968-73, valued at £101 per cent, Here are some of the prices offered:—
OPERATORS OF TIPPERS WANT "A CONTRACT" CONTROL
pR EVAILING abuses in the use of vehicles under A contract licences are referred to in the report by the chairman, Mr. C. W. H. Sparrow. on the year's work of the Road Haulage Association's Tipping Vehicles Group.
A32 The Group calls for a tightening of the present regulations and controls, primarily with the view to the mitigation of irresponsible and unfair competition. The report continues: "We find that not all sections in the industry support our views, and this difference of opinion still remains to be resolved by other committees in the Association."
BIG EXPORT DEMAND FOR LAND-ROVER
CHAIRMAN of the Rover company, . Mr. E. Ransom Harrison. is reported as saying thatthe company
• has export orders in hand for the LandRover, sufficient to absorb its entire export quota to the 'end of this year. .Mr. Harrison said there was a big demand for the Land-Rover for civil and military purposes overseas.