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Part Grant in Western Tours Bid
Page 53
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NAEMBERS of the public appeared as 11'1 witnesses to support applications for extended tours, made at a hearing in, Bristol last week by J., W. G. D., .1, H. R. and S. W. Chivers 01. Midsomer Norton. The applications were granted in part. A club organizer said tours of a week or longer were too expensive for many pensioners and invalids; the three-day tours proposed would be ideal.
Other members of the public said they would like to visit places farther away than those available on day tours. They claimed it was inconvenient to use tours offered by Roman City Ltd., objectors, as it involved travelling to Bath.
Mr. William G. D. Chivers, a partner in the applicant company, said his firm had acquired the goodwill for English tours from Fry and Sons Ltd. some 18 months ago: They now had. more than 100 destinations on their licence. People in the district, he went on, had asked if the firm could run threeday tours.
Mr. Chivers told a solicitor for the objectors that his firm. had seven coaches and, if the present applications were successful, he thought he would require a further three coaches at a probable total cost of 0.000. There was, he said, a good deal of " dead wood on the licence-trips which were of little use. A solicitor for Chivers submitted that if the applications were successful the company would undertake to surrender the tours if the good will for English tours was sold at any time.
Under cross examination, Mr. Dudley W. James, secretary of Roman City Ltd.. agreed that only two of the tours applied for by Chivers were in direct competition with those operated by his company.
Chairman of the Western Traffic Commissioners, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, said that the evidence would be more cogent if the witness could produce a detailed analysis of traffic from the Midsomer Norton-Radstock area. Giving the Commissioners' decision, he said: 'We are of one mind. The case for the applicant was not strong and the same can be said of the case for the objector. It is a matter of surprise that the objector has not produced evidence of his traffic in the catchment area."
Applications were refused in seven cases relating to Coventry, Isle of Wight, Lands End, Newquay, Falmouth, St. Ives and the Lake District. Twenty-four applications were granted.
Also granted were applications relating to express services to Filey and Skegness, both from Stratton-on-the-Foss. Chivers had earlier withdrawn applications for Express services to Bognor Regis, Paignton, Clacton, Aberavon, Ilfracombe, Prestatyn and Pwlheli.