Independent Wrexham Operator Fights Crosville
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TRANSPORT difficulties were affecting
recruitment for the coal and steel ndustries in the Wrexham area, the 4orth Western Traffic Commissioners rere told last week. Crosville Motor iervices, Ltd., were applying for variaions of their stage-service licences etween Queens Park Estate and the own centre. M. A. Evans and Son, Vrexham, objected.
Mr_ Harold Jones, for Crosville, said hey wanted to terminate certain journeys nom Queens Park at King Street bus tation, instead of St. George's Crescent. his would benefit shift workers at ;ershatn Colliery, Brymbo Steel Works nd Monsanto Chemicals, who already sed Crosville services to the works from :ing Street. No new mileage was con=plated, and the additional journeys rould be deleted from services termina
ting at St. George's Crescent, he told the Commissioner's.
A National Coal Board official said 500-700 additional workers would soon be required at Bersham. The Queens Park district was a likely area, but because existing services involved changing at Wrexham and a walk across the town, recruitment was difficult.
Hospital Service
Mr. J. E. T. Bentley, for Evans. said Crosville obtained their licence from the estate to King Street in 1952 as a hospital service. In 1955, Sunday morning timings were added for church-goers, and they were now seeking to transform it into an open licence. Evans had no objection to the provision of facilities for the early morning shift, granted in December, but seven of the proposed
timings sought for the afternoon and evening shifts would result in serious abstraction both of workers and normal traffic. In present circumstances, any reduction in the revenue of a small operator could be disastrous, Mr. Bentley submitted.
Evans provided adequate services into King Street at these times, although people on the estate would have a slightly longer walk before joining the buses, he said. Queens Park was the best-served area in Wrexham.
Reserving decision, Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said it would. obviously be more convenient for workers if Crosville ran into King Street, but Evans' service had to be protected. The matter would be given further consideration to see whether some protective formula could be found.