Contract Operation Has Become Uneconomical—Adam Lythgoe
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TT was disturbing to learn that Adam
Lythgoe, Ltd., having given traffic to rail, were taking it away again in order to support contract A vehicles. When transport facilities were adequate such a course seemed undesirable.
This was said by Mr. J. H. A. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, at Leeds on Tuesday after hearing evidence in support of a B-licence application by J. and M. Howarth, Stainforth, to add "goods for Adam Lythgoe, Ltd., within 150 miles' to the conditions.
Mr. A. Scragg, Adam Lythgoe's transport manager, said that for 30 years their business had been maintained by contract vehicles, but they were now finding it difficult to keep them fully occupied. As a consequence, they were now regularly supporting B-licence
applications so that, when slack; the operators would have a chance of doing Other work.
The company entered the fertilizer field two years ago and now had factories at Ayr and Perth. In addition to fertilizer
work, the vehicle was required to carry lime direct from quarries operated by their Ribblehead group within 60 miles.
Questioned by Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the objectors, British Railways, Mr. Scragg said that after giving a great deal of this traffic to the railways, they had been forced to take it away again to keep contract vehicles. going. Four operators had broken their contract during the past week.
After Mr. Atkinson had pointed out that at a previous hearing the applicants said that Adam Lythgoe's work would only "lit! in" and he would be available only in the mornings, Mr. Scragg agreed that he could not use Howarth's outside a 25-mile radius.
The application was granted with an amended radius of 25 miles.
ATLANTEANS FOR HASTINGS
TROLLEYBUSES operated at Hastings are to be withdrawn next April. and will be replaced with Leyland Atlantean double-deck motorbuses.