Manchester Objects on Principle
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OPPOSING an application, lastFriday, by Messrs. 0.. and A. Chorley, Ashton-under-Lyne, for permission to run express services to carry workers between Olodwick, Oldham, and the Urmston works of Platt's (Barton), Ltd., Mr. B. Hill, for Manchester Transport Department, told the North Western Licensing Authority that the undertaking would always object on principle to such applications.
Reserving his decision, the chairman, Mr. F. W. Williamson, said that further applications for special services were pending, and the Authority wanted to have the whole picture. .
The corporation contended that the operators who bore the brunt of normal services should be given the opportunity of providing any special services at remunerative rates.
Manchester, in conjunction with Oldham, wa-1 already providing an allday service between the two towns, together with special services between Manchester and Platt's works at Urmston in the morning and evening. On these grounds, the corporation were also applying for licences for a similar service.
Mr. H. Backhouse, for Chorley, said the service had been running on a contract-carriage basis for three-years, but it had been recently discovered that the legality of the operation was questionable.
The applicants' price for three coaches for the service, which had staggered picking-up points in Oldham, was £10 10s. a day, whereas the corporation's best offer was two doubledeckers for £12.