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Not "Back. Door " say Commissioners
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Handy Coaches Granted Metal Box Service
'THE application by 0, H. Waterheld, J. trading as Handy Coaches of Suttonin-Ashfield. Notts, to operate a faresassisted works bus service from Tibshelf to the Metal Box Co., Ltd., factory at Sutton has been granted by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners.
The service had been operating at Metal Box Co.'s expense as a contract carriage service for. three years and Mr. Watertield was seeking an expreSs service licence to enable a fare contribution to be levied on the passengers.. Objectors were the Midland General,Mansfield District and Trent Motor Traction companies.
• In a written decision the Commissioners comment that in applications of this nature they considered, on principle, that regular operators providing stage services in the district, sometimes at a loss, should be supported wherever possible and that an application should not of necessity be granted to the operator whose quotation was lowest, In this case, however, the contract was obtained by the applicant in competition with one of the objectors (Midland General) and the Commissioners consider the quotation of £6 per day to be fair and economic. They note that, in spite of an amended offer, the figure quoted by Midland General was still 35s. a day more than the contract price offered by Mr. Watertield.
Commenting . that Mr. Rawlinson, traffic manager of Trent Motor Traction, had suggested this application was an instance of a" back door" entry into licensed operation, the Commissioners say there may be cases in which this criticism might be valid, but they did not think it applied in this instance.