Holiday camp service proves viability
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JOINT operators in the North West came before the Traffic Commissioners in Manchester on Tuesday to report how the express services from Merseyside to the town and Butlins Holiday Camp at Skegness had fared during 1967.
The Commissioners had requested this when granting the applications last March in order to see if the services were viable. The service from Liverpool will continue and Crosville Motors Services Ltd., Lancashire United Tours Ltd., North Western Road Car Co. Ltd., and Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd., will be able to pick up passengers at Knutsford, Macclesfield and Buxton, through which towns the coaches now travel. Application will be made in the East Midland Traffic Area for four additional setting-down points for the service. The Crosville assistant traffic manager said that 593 passengers had travelled from Merseyside to Skegness in 1967.
L.U.T. was granted a new express service from Earestown to Skegness and the camp with 10 picking-up points and from Warrington to Skegness during the Warrington holiday weeks.
Following these applications, three Warrington excursions and tours operators, Naylor Motor Services, F. Sykes and Sons (Excursions) Ltd., and Shadwell Tours, applied to run jointly one vehicle period return by way of Skegness and the camp during the Warrington Holiday Weeks which, this year, will be the last in July and the first in August. The application was refused.