Grant for Carrying Pilgrims to Continent
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RS were expressed by several intinental tour operators and also Railways that an express licence, d for by a Birmingham operator regularly to Lourdes with pilgrims, if granted, be used for other than ous purposes—such as local tours trritz, Toulouse and resorts in the of France.
er being given assurances by the ant—Bailey's Coaches (firmingLtd., of Sheldon—the West Mid. Traffic Commissioners last week :d a licence for an experimental of one year, restricted to the s of July and August, to be operat not more than fortnightly us.
Norman Carless, for Bailey's, said he intention was to cater for a tour with a nine-day stay at es, returning to the Midlands via ing evidence, Mr. Derek Bailey, a tr of the applicant company, said e proposed to charge an inclusive £37 10s. from Birmingham to es and back via Dover. He ed to operate from the Sunday preEaster until the last Sunday in ober.
is-examined by Mr. D. E. ng for G. H. Austin and Sons Ltd., and Garage Ltd., and Central ways (Walsall) Ltd., Mr. Bailey tat during the stay at Lourdes the would take pilgrims to services the daytime and would be used ivey them on short excursions to of religious interest in the area.
Skelding said: "It may well be tere might be people in the party nly want to spend a day at Lourdes en want to make their way to other " Mr. Bailey said that he was ed to accept a limiting condition
licence. Supporting evidence was given by three priests, representing between them some 15,000 people, and also seven members of the public who wanted to go to Lourdes with the applicant.
Mr. Skelding submitted that neither of his clients operated tours to Lourdes. but they were worried that the applicant might easily be able to extend the facility, as a Continental tour operator, to resorts such as Santander or Toulouse.
Giving the Commissioners' decision, Mr. J. Else, the chairman, said that the licence would be designated for tours to Lourdes. for pilgrims only, with a 25-mile radius !imitation. As a result of the grant, the Commissioners said they did not regard the • applicant as a Continental tours operator,
SIX FOR SUTTON
THE suggestion put forward by the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, has been followed by Sutton and Son (St. Helens) Ltd., and the company has now been granted six dual-purpose vehicles to carry mainly bulk liquids. (The Commercial Motor, September 13).
Five units have been on short-term licence since last July and at the Liverpool hearing last week Mr. Jolliffe said he could not grant the original application for eight vehicles, for liquid and flat traffic, and suggested amendments to quantum and user.
THREE FOR JONES
'THREE multi-purpose vehicles to carry 1 "general goods for Coast Lines Ltd. and associated companies, and liquids; England, Scotland, Wales" have now been granted to A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd.. of Liverpool, by the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe.
Notts Appeal Fails
THE Minister of Transport, in a . decision made known last week, has dismissed an appeal by Nottingham Corporation against a decision by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners granting route variations to the Midland General Omnibus Co. Ltd. and the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Company; the variations were in connection with stage carriage services between Nottingham (Mount Street) and Wollaton.
It appeared to the Minister that the need for the Midland General service, in addition to that of the Corporation, had been adequately made out.
Strictly as Substitutes
FOUR replacement vehicles on A licences were granted to Siddle C. Cook Ltd., of Consett, Co. Durham, by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. 1, A. T. Hanlon, on Monday.
Mr. G. N. Robson, for the company, said the extra vehicles (artics) were urgently needed to replace vehicles off the road for maintenance. The managing director, Mr. Siddle C. Cook, said that shortage of vehicles had obliged his company to sub-contract some work, but this had sometimes proved unsatisfactory and there had been complaints from customers.
Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for British Railways, objected that the firm had been granted licences once before for substitute vehicles but, on renewal, the vehicles had been incorporated in the regular fleet. He said that if the same thing happened again, the railways would have to meet unfair competition.
The applications were granted on the condition that the licences were used strictly for substitute vehicles and that Cook did not have more than 42 vehicles on the road at the same time.