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• There is no "battle of the bus e s" between Tame Valley Travel and West Midland Travel, West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has been told at a Birmingham public inquiry.
Mervyn Pugh was considering banning Tame Valley from operating local services, and directing it to repay 20% of the fuel duty rebate grant it had received over the past three months, following complaints from West Midland Travel about the way it
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was operating its local services.
Tame Valley admitted a total of 351 failures to operate in accordance with the registered particulars of two services between Birmingham and Chelmsley Wood.
For West Midland Travel, Richard Tyson said that it was not afraid of competition, but it was important that there was no degeneration into the bus wars of old. A major investigation into Tame Valley's operations was carried out between February and September, following complaints from drivers.