Free service application refused
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• A Pontypool coach operator who had been running a free service for the past two months between Cwmbran and Llantarnatn had his application to regularize the service turned down by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners at Cardiff.
Mr R. G. M. Matthews, of Heol Madoc, New Inn, Pontypool, trading as Panteg Motors applied for a licence to operate an express carriage service from Meadow Way, Cwmbran, to Burton's biscuit factory at Llantamam and back with five picking up and setting down points.
Objections were lodged by Western Welsh Omnibus Company and Red and White Services who operate over the same route.
Turning down the application the chairman Mr R. R. Jackson said that although the free service may not have been illegal it was unfair competition which must have abstracted traffic from regular operators.
The Traffic Commissioners took a very poor view of any operator who sought to prove need by operating a so-called free service.