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'Backdoor' feeder application alleged
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• Six companies applied to the NorthWestern Traffic Commissioner in Manchester on Wednesday to operate a joint service between Liverpool and Manchester to feed extended tours run by Pleasureways (1953) Ltd. They intended to hire a Pleasureways coach for the service.
The application was made as a variation of their existing Newcastle upon Tyne and New Brighton express carriage service, tt) operate on slimmer Saturdays.
For the pool partners Mr. D. Rodgers, traffic manager, Lancashire United Transport Ltd., said running time would be half an hour faster than their existing service which left Liverpool at 6.30 a.m. and departed from Manchester at 18.35. The proposed service would leave at 7.15 a.m. Pleasureways had asked them to introduce the service for people in the Liverpool and Wirral areas who had been having difficulty in joining its tours. Mr. E. K. Healey, licensing officer of Pleasureways, said that during 1968. 85 passengers from these areas had made their own way to Manchester. No additional charge would he made to pas sengers using the feeder service.
Objecting for British Railways, Mr. J. A. Backhouse pointed out that his clients would thus have to face the competition of passengers being able to travel free as against the I 7s 6d rail return fares. Mr. Healey said provision of feeder services had been accounted for in their castings: "the fare is a complete myth. You would be paying approximately 6s 3d per passenger to the pool operators for the right to use their licence, wouldn't you?" challenged Mr. Backhouse.
The chairman of the Commissioners, Mr. C. R. Hodgson agreed to hear late representation from Smiths Tours (Wigan) Ltd. because no mention of the service feeding extended tours had been made when the application was published. Pleasureways was trying to get a backdoor feeder service and avoid opposition from other operators alleged Mr. Backhouse, who submitted that if no extra fare was paid it was equivalent to the tour originating in Liverpool and would be in breach of Pleasureway's extended tours licence.
The application was refused.