Exception to Protection for Losing Services
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OPERATORS of unremunerative services must generally be protected against abstraction by newcomers from their existing facilities and must be given preference in the provision of new services, says the Minister of Transport in an appeal decision announced on Monday. Moreover, they need not show that they cannot continue to run unremunerative services without further revenue.
Nevertheless, he has upheld an appeal by a small company and has ordered licences granted by the North Western Traffic Commissioners to three large operators, who run unremunerative services, to be revoked.
F. Sykes and Sons, Ltd., appealed against the refusal of express services from Appleton and Broomedge to the Atomic Energy Authority Establishment at Risley, and the granting of a joint express service from Appleton to Risley to Lancashire United Transport, Ltd.. North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., and Warrington Corporation, and an express service from Broomedgc to Risley to L.U.T. and North Western.
The Minister was particularly impressed by the preference of the A.E.A.E. for Sykes' service, by the joint operators' reluctance to provide the facilities, and the proposed use by Sykes of a certain bridge. Sykes' arguments were sufficient to outweigh the joint operators' claim to preference on the ground that they provided unremunera
tive services. The licences granted to them are to be revoked.