Remote management caused collapse
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• Management by remote control would no longer be possible under the new Transport Act, remarked Mr. J. Else, West Midland LA, when he revoked an A licence and received the surrender of a B licence belonging to Radbourne Bros. Ltd., Stratford-upon-Avon.
For Radboume, Mr. N. Carless explained that when the parent company, Eagle Transport Ltd., of Peckham, took over the company five years ago a director had been managing the business. Since then, however, following management difficulties, four vehicles had been moved to London and Eagle had recently been granted an additional five vehicles on its Metropolitan A licence.
Until March 1968, as the annual turnover figure of £43,638 showed, the business had flourished, but now it had ceased operating from the Midlands.
Mr. F. W. Elton, a director of both companies, said sale of the premises and goodwill had been completed with a local haulier, Chambers and Cook Ltd. (which worked extensively for one of Radbourne's main customers) provided that a new twovehicle B and one-vehicle A licence now being applied for by Chambers and Cook, was granted.
Mr. Else wondered how, with such a large investment at stake, the owners had allowed such a state of affairs to develop. Mr. Elton said by last March he realized that, even though he spent two to three days a week in Stratford, either that concern or the London one was going to suffer. The LA said this kind of situation highlighted the inadvisability of absentee management.