London Transport's Plea Rejected
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ASTRENUOUS objection by the London Transport Executive against an application by a mid-Surrey operator for an express licence to carry schoolchildren between Honey and Copthorne, along the line of a route they described as the most unremunerative service in the southern division of their country bus area, was rejected by the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Tuesday.
The applicant, J. Brown of Smallfield, admitted that for several weeks he had operated without a licence; as soon as the illegality had been pointed out, he applied for, and was granted, a shortterm licence. He had no witnesses but produced 12 letters from parents, the majority of whom stated that, prior to the operation of the service, they had taken their children to school in cars.
Before Mr. Muir granted the application, Mr. F. G. Simons, for London Transport, reminded the Commissioner that normally the L.T.E. did not object to such applications. This was the exception that proved the rule. If the children used the stage service, the loss would be halved. Such a grant would be a " senseless duplication."