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Fight for GlasgowMidlands Traffic

7th November 1952
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Page 30, 7th November 1952 — Fight for GlasgowMidlands Traffic
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IN Birmingham, on Tuesday, three B.E.T. companies, on one side, and Northern Roadways, Ltd., and the Railway Executive, on the other, resumed their conflicting claims to carry passengers between the Midlands and Glasgow.

The West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. James, who reserved his decision, was hearing the final witnesses in a case adjourned from September 23 (reported in "The Commercial Motor" on September 26), in which Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and the 'North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., sought permission to run coaches between Coventry and Glasgow.

Northern Roadways, Ltd., one of the objectors, is, in turn, applying for a service between Glasgow and Birmingham. Permission to run it has been granted by the Scottish Licensing Authority, but a backing is required from the West Midland Authority, who heard the application on Wednesday.

Mr. Geoffrey Dawes, for Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., said on Tuesday that the company was really applying for extensions of existing services which would permit winter operation, slight changes in route, duplication of coaches, and extension as far as Coventry. He considered that as existing operators, the joint applicants should be given preference over Northern Roadways, Ltd.

Referring to the objection by the Railway Executive, Mr. Dawes said that by reason of the interest of the British Transport Commission in the joint applicants, any loss of traffic to the B.T.C. would be only partial, and not absolute, as it would be if the railways lost traffic to Northern Roadways.

In addition, the joint applicants had depots all along the proposed route and could easily provide substitute vehicles in the event of breakdowns.


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