{"id":4208,"date":"2013-06-15T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2013-06-15T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:36:54","slug":"ltt-trustee-quits-in-major-shake-up-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"LTT Trustee quits in major shake-up for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancastrian Transport Trust has announced that one of its most prominent members, Philip Higgs, has resigned from his position as a Trustee of the Charity. Mr Higgs is a well known figure in transport preservation circles, notably featuring on the Channel 4 &#8216;Salvage Squad&#8217; TV programme featuring the restoration of &#8220;his&#8221; tramcar, <strong>Blackpool Coronation car 304<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The recent move to return several preserved trams into the care of Blackpool Transport so that they can enjoy a more prosperous future as part of the town&#8217;s running fleet of historic vehicles, has led to this power change. In a brief statement posted on the LTT&#8217;s website, Mr Higgs explains: &#8220;My own business interest\u00a0in Classic Bus North West\u00a0is an obvious impediment to the relationship that now needs to\u00a0develop between LTT and Blackpool Transport.\u00a0A fantastic opportunity now exists to create a first class heritage tram collection and perhaps a future tramway museum facility in the resort which has been an aspiration of the LTT since it was founded&#8221;. He has also wished Bryan Lindop and everyone else involved in the plan to create a new charitable organisation to take care of the heritage trams in Blackpool &#8211; including nine former LTT cars &#8211; the best of luck with this venture. Presumably the various parties did not see a way forward whilst Higgs was involved with the heritage trams, hence his decision to leave the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever individual views on Mr Higgs may be, there is no denying that he has made a considerable sacrifice, and it is fantastic to see him put the trams he fought to preserve first by acting in this way. Having helped to ensure the survival of <strong>304<\/strong> and other trams in the past, he has now helped to secure them a viable future on their home tramway and that should be applauded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancastrian Transport Trust has announced that one of its most prominent members, Philip Higgs, has resigned from his position as a Trustee of the Charity. Mr Higgs is a well known figure in transport preservation circles, notably featuring on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}