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WARNING ON TOURS O PERATORS of express services. excursions and tours

6th November 1964
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Page 53, 6th November 1964 — WARNING ON TOURS O PERATORS of express services. excursions and tours
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

in the North West were warned by Maj.-Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, at the start of a series of applications last week, that they would have, to prove that day excursions could be operated within the Road Traffic Act and did not " encroach " on two-day excursions.

The Commissioners suggested at the start of the three-day hearing—during the first application by Yelloway Motor Services Ltd., to operate day-return services between. Blackpool and London and Rochdale and London—that conditions should read: "These facilities are available only to passengers who complete a return journey in 24 hourswhen the originating and return journeys arc commenced in the same calendar day ".

Mr. H. Allen, general manager of Yelloway. said that many passengers who had Used their period return fares were making journeys to London and returning within the same day. The demand for this type of operation had been made possible by the introduction of better roads and the motorways, he added.

The Commissioners reserved their decisions on these and other similar applications by Scout Motor Services Ltd., W. C. Standerwick Ltd., and the parent company Ribble Motor Services Ltd., to introduce day-return facilities on their routes front Colne to London. Blackpool to London and their express service from Keswick to London.


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