No Licence For S mall Bus Service
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. A SKED by Mr, W. F. Quin, chairman rt of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, if he collected fares on his miniature bus service between Dalrymple and the new pit at Killoch, S. Ayrshire, Mr. J. M. Freeburn, applying for a licence for the service, declared he had collected only "petrol money" from miners carried.
He had considered it his duty to provide transport for the miners at the pit.
Did , Mr. Freeburn not realize that financial ruin stared him in the face if he charged the fares proposed, asked Mr. Robert Farrell, for the objectors, Western S.M.T., Ltd., Kilmarnock. On the proposed fares table he would only get 21(1. per mile and this did not include
210 dead miles from his garage at Patna.
"There is no future in this for you, this is Western S.M.T. traffic," Mr. Farrell told the applicant. "You have been illegally operating on a fare of lid. per mile. When the N.C.B. required a service to the new pit his company, as the existing operators, would provide it," said Mr. Farrell.
For the applicant. Mr. I. Law said that at present there was no Western S.M.T. service to the Mt, so there could be no question of competition.
Refusing the application, Mr. Quin commented that the services applied for were completely uneconomic and there were no grounds for calling witnesses for the applicant.