Camp Owner's Coach Appeal Dismissed
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AN appeal by Mr H. F N Cox, of Birmingham, against the West Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to grant him a licence for an express service between Birmingham and Great. Yarmouth, has been dismissed with costs by the Minister of Transport.
The case concerned the carriage of patrons of caravans leased by the appellant, and was to be operated on all Saturdays from May to September_ Mr. W. L. Dann, for Mr. Cox, said that direct transit to the caravan camp was a great convenience. His client intended to limit the service to his own customers and was not trying to abstract passengers from other services.
Mr. J. Foley Egginton, for Flight and Co., Mr. J. Ashmore and Mr. A. Hartland and Mr. S. W. Burchill (Hartland's Tours), submitted that the extension of this principle to groups of hotels and others would lead to an impossible position.
Other objectors were the Railway Executive and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., who both submitted that their existing services were adequate.
The Ministry of Transport inspector, Sir Hugh Dow, who heard the appeal at Birmingham on September 30, considered that existing rail and coach services were adequate. He thought there was force in the argument that other owners of holiday accommodation could make out a similar case, and the general acceptance of this would lead to impossible conditions Sir Hugh commented that the evidence of demand had been built up almost entirely as a result of the unauthorized services which the appellant had been running for the past two years.