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Grant for London tours
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TT was alleged by an objector at Birmingham
on Monday that although an applicant seeking to operate excursions and tours to London from Newport, Shropshire, had good facilities on paper, figures showed they were not used to their fullest extent.
G. H. Austin and Sons Ltd. sought to operate the London tours and H. Brown and Sons, of Donnington, cross-applied for a picking-up point in Newport for their one-, two-, threeand four-day tours to London from Donnington, already authorized. They also objected to Austin's application, which was granted by the West Midland Traffic Commissioners.
Summing up Brown's case, Mr. D. Skelding said the point at issue was which of the two applicants was the established operator to London. He submitted that it was Brown and Sons because they had been operating to London for three or four years, whilst Austin and Sons were not yet authorized to do so. In fact, a previous application by Austin for the facility last year was refused by the Commissioners because of lack of evidence.
Brown and Sons did not claim to be the established excursions and tours operators for the Newport district, said Mr. Skelding. It was true that their nearest picking-up point on the London service was some four miles from the centre of Newport, but the firm was well known in the town through its express service to Manchester which had a pickingup point at Newport.
In the three years ending in May, 1966 Brown and Sons had carried 1,721 passengers on London tours, 42 of whom came from Newport. Taking the lowest figure of Eli per head, this was an income from London alone of £1,721.
On the other hand, Austin and Sons had carried only 3,379 passengers on the whole of their excursions and tours operations with an income averaging 6s. per head.
Chairman of the Commissioners, Mr. J. Else, said that at a previous hearing, the Commissioners had already stated there was a prima facie case for tours to London from Newport. But of the two operators, Austin had the better claim. He was the established operator for Newport and ran stage carriage services, very rural in character, and hopelessly unremunerative.
Grant for one on A
AMa n ch es t er on Monday the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, granted an application by K. T. Rooney to add one vehicle of 4 tons to an A licence.
Mr. Rooney, of Manchester, already operated one 3-ton vehicle and he was supported in his application by another haulier for whom he works on sub-contract. His normal user is: Rubber and plastics, paper and paper products, washing-machine equipment Lanes, Yorks, Cheshire and the Midlands.