Tours Licence Consolidated
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ANapplication to vary an experimental licence partly succeeded last week at Middlesbrough when the Northern Traffic Commissioners granted Mr. Raymond L. Hardwick, Eston, Middlesbrough, permission to operate three additional vehicles on excursions and tours from Middlesbrough, Redcar and Billinghain, to Ostend and Blankenberge via Dover. Mr. Hardwick originally asked for six
vehicles, but when he agreed to amend this to three, the objectors, who included United Automobile Services, Ltd., and the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., withdrew.
For the applicant, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw reminded the Commissioners that in February they had granted a licence for one vehicle as an experiment. They had requested Mr. Hardwick to supply particulars at the end of the coaching season. Mr. Hardwick had produced a detailed schedule which, Mr. Wardlaw contended, showed that he had fulfilled a great public demand.
Despite preparations for the coaching season being well advanced by the time his licence was granted, Mr. Hardwick had carried 572 passengers on excursions from the end of May to September.
Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, chairman, remarked that the application for six vehicles seemed to be asking for "rather a lot." Mr. Hardwick replied that he could easily fill three vehicles. People he had taken to the Continent this season had indicated that they would go again next year and would be bringing their friends.
Giving decision, Mr. Hanlon said that the Commissioners were pleased that the grant of an experimental licence had proved successful.