Coach Competition with Railways Needed
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AN extensive area such as the West Riding of Yorkshire needed a through coach service to Bournemouth side by side with rail facilities, it was claimed in Leeds last week. Mr. F. S. Marshall, for Wallace Arnald (Tours), Ltd., suggested that British Railways wanted no road services to be authorized until their trains were full.. Wallace Arnold and the Yorkshire Pool were appealing against the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' refusal to grant them tours from Leeds and Bradford to Bournemouth on Friday nights, returning Saturday nights. Respondents were the railways, Yelloway Motor Services, Ltd., and Hebble
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Mr. Marshall said the Commissioners thought there would be wasteful competition if Wallace Arnold were the licence, but even if both appeals failed, abstraction would not be eliminated. "Quite apart from the carrying by the Pool in a link with Associated Motorways, the railways would have to contend with Yelloways," he pointed out. " It follows that the railways would have to contend with almost unlimited road traffic duplication." Referring to Yelloways, he said they had a link at Cheltenham with Associated Motorways, who held key licences for Bournemouth and whose duplication was probably already overburdened. Mr. G. P. Crowe, for British Railways, criticized evidence given for the Yorkshire Pool by Mr, J. Niblock, traffic manager of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd. If Pool operators merely wished to gain experience of travel conditionS and "feel the pulse of the travelling public" it was not surprising the application had been refusedt he said.