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Birmingham Co-op Bid Still Undecided
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.AFTER a total of 2-1 days a public 171 inquiry into an application by Birmingham Co-operative Society Ltd., seeking re-admission into the excursions and tours section of the industry after a four-year lapse, was still unfinished on Tuesday. It is unlikely to be resumed before Easter.
The Co-op applied to the West Midland Traffic Commissioners for a licence to operate 131 excursions and tours from its garage in the Nechells district of Birmingham.: there are 16 objectors. It was explained that the Society had been forced to suspend operations in 1959 because redevelopment in its catchment area had caused considerable depopulation.
Mr. J. Else, chairman of the Commis. sioners, said a prima facie case had been made out for the day, half-day and evening excursions and tours.
When, at the end of Tuesday's sitting,
• an objecting advocate submitted that the objectors' evidence so far heard rebutted -the prima facie case, Mr. Else said the Commissioners wanted to hear all the objectors' evidence before deciding.
Evidence was given on behalf of the
• Co-op that since the last hearing (The Commercial Motor, Jan. 31), a spot check survey had been made among people living near the picking-up point in the district in question of some of the objecting operators. They were asked if they knew the location of their nearest
picking-up point for coach excursions. Out of 34 people questioned near one of Sugden's picking-up points, only one knew of its existence and only two out of 40 knew L. F. Bowen's point.
Representatives of two objecting firms —Eatonways and Flights Tours--said their excursions and tours formed 50 per cent of their business. Both claimed that the Ca-op would' abstract traffic from them if the licences were granted.