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Take-over of Coach Licence Opposed
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A N application by Smiths Luxury r-1 Coaches (Reading), Ltd., to take over an excursion and tours licence held by Mrs. Laura Townsend, Crowthorne, near Wokingham, was adjourned by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners, last week, following an objection by Brimblecombe
Bros., Wokingham. • For Smiths, Mr. A. G. GoodeveDocker said Mrs. Townsend received the licence when her husband died in July, 1956. She had sold the business to Smiths, conditional upon the licence being transferred.
For Brimblecombe Bros., Mr. J. May submitted that the licence had not been operated effectively for two years, and it was not in the public interest that a transfer should take place. Brimblecombe Bros. were licensed to pick up passengers at Crowthorne, but there was little business. The only result of a transfer would be loss of revenue to them.
Mr. Goodeve-Docker replied that Brimblecombe Bros. should not say cornpetition was unfair just because they were afraid of it or did not like it. That was a cry of panic.
The Commissioners were told that in 1956 Townsend's coaches operated 4,894 passenger journeys. In 1957 the figure dropped to 441, and this year it was 416. They adjourned the case for further figures to be produced.