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Golden opportunity to run eight-day tours
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FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL period of 12 months a grant has been given to Golden Key Coaches of Bognor to operate eight-day services to Newquay and Llandudno.
When the application was heard by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners in Littlehampton last week, Southdown was the only objector, and the Commissioners said that they were worried by possible abstraction from NBC. However, they considered that the weight of the evidence and they were grateful to the public for corning forward — warranted a grant.
The only comparable service of Southdown to Newquay was its Ensign holiday operated by express service and not by coach. In respect of Llandudno it had no directly comparable service.
Mr W. H. Morgan, pro prietor of Golden Key, told the Commissioners that he had operated for five years on a private hire basis offering holidays to the clubs in the Bognor area for elderly folk. He conducted the tours personally and organized such features as entertainment, and day excursions (including tours by the local operator at the destination). His application was supported by 11 public witnesses.
Mr R. E. Hollis, assistant tour superintendent of National Travel (South East) Ltd, appearing on behalf of Southdown, told the Commissioners that in the regular brochure National Travel offered from Bognor a semi-progressive sevenday tour of Devon and Cornwall and also of the Isles of Scilly, Devon and Cornwall. It also had centred holidays at Ilfra combe and Torquay.
Under its Ensign programme, involving travel by regular express coach, there were holidays at Llandudno and Newquay.
Mr Tudway, on behalf of Southdown, submitted to the Traffic Commissioners that in principle a local need should not be satisfied if it was going to causeT a degree of abstraction to the established operator. No witness had made any complaint about Southdown but clearly liked Mr Morgan's personality. Moreover, he had the advantages of lower overheads and not having to provide al. averall transport service.
Mr Tudway conceded that there was a need in the narrow sense, but said that there would be abstraction from the Southdown holidays since people did not go on holiday to a particular destination but chose among holidays of similar type. Appearing for Golden Key of Bognor, Mr .Christopher Grieves pointed out that for such a modest application the support had been overwhelming. Clearly, Mr Morgan's tours were greatly in demand in the Bognor area. He accepted that Mr Morgan had advantages as a small operator over the larger Southdown, but he submitted that the public ought to have the choice of the lower prices that Mr Morgan was able to offer and pointed to the wording of the 1960 Act which clearly did not absolutely rule out competition and referred only to "unnecessary competition". Moreover, the Minister had, in recent years, approved the proposition that the public were entitled to some choice.