Grantown operator beats ski-bus bid
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AGRANTOWN-ON-SPEY bus operator
who pioneered services for skiers in the Cairngorms was successful last week in his objections to an application by Highland Omnibuses Ltd., one of the Scottish Bus Group, to provide ski-bus services in the area.
At the initial hearing of the case in May, Highland Omnibuses had promised the Scottish Traffic Commissioners that they would put into operation buses with adequate heating and better facilities for storing skis. The chairman of the Commissioners, Mr. L. A. Wells, said the case had been a very difficult one right from the beginning, and boiled down to the condition of the buses operated by Mr. Norman Smith who was objecting. It would be agreed by everybody, he said, that had Mr. Sniffles buses been what the multi-million-pound projects in the Cairngorms required, the application by Highland Omnibuses would never have arisen.
The Commissioners held that as Mr. Smith was the local operator and had guaranteed to improve the general standard and quality of his vehicles, they would refuse the Highland Omnibuses application.