War Operation " A CLAIM that the Eastern Licensing Authority, in granting
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a licence to Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., to operate an express service between Cambridge and London, had been influenced by the fact that they had run a similar service before the war, was made by Mr. E. A. Lainson in the hearing of appeals by Premier Travel, Ltd., F. C. Moore, Ltd., and Biss Bros.
Mr. Lainson of Premier Travel, said that when the war ended the Ministry of Transport had proposed a scheme whereby operators could restore prewar services, but that arrangement had ended three years ago. Eastern Counties were applying for an entirely new service and the Authority's observation that the application was partially to reinstate pre-war service was, Mr. Lainson argued, misfounded.
F. C. Moore, Ltd., operated a feeder service to the railway station in the locality of Saffron Walden and Sawstort and if no stopping place had been proposed there, they wOuld have not objected.
Messrs. Biss Bros., who operated on the fringe of the new route, were afraid that the service might provide facilities between Bishop's Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Harlow to coastal resorts served from London.
Eastern Counties claimed that the service was a partial restoration of a pre-war facility that had extended to Bury St. Edmunds.. To give Premier Travel a-monopoly between' Saffron Walden or Sawston and London would be une,quitable.
Sir Oswald Allen recommended that the licence should expire on November 30 this year, instead of in 1954, but the Minister of Transport has made no order on the Authority.