It started out life as the Llandudno Cabin Lift Co. Ltd in 1969 but changed its name to the Llandudno Cable Car Ltd in 1988.
Some history from an old blog post of mine...
It's the Longest Aerial Cable Car in the United Kingdom, with the distance between the two stations at Happy Valley and the Great Orme Summit being 1 mile and 40 feet exactly (5,320 feet).
While we are dealing with the stats.....
The Happy Valley Station is 135 feet above Sea level.
The Summit Station is 651 feet above Sea level.
There are 42 Cabins that travel at 600 feet per minute.
There are 9 intermediate tapering steel trestles support the cable between the stations.
The tallest trestle is 80 feet high with a base 5 feet 6 inches square - it weighs 15.3 tons.
675 tons of concrete were used for the foundations and the steelwork weighs over 100 tons.
The longest span between the trestles is 1,023 feet.
The Cabins reach a maximum height of 160 feet above ground.
Each Cabin seats a maximum of 4 people
Each Cabin takes 9 minutes to reach the Summit (or vice versa)
Each Cabin is supported on an endless steel cable 2 miles long, weighing over 17 tons.
The hourly capacity of the Cable Car is stated to be 500 persons.
On an average day, each Cabin covers about 60 miles.
The cable has a nominal breaking strain of 50 tons, the factor of safety is 5.2.
The cabin lift is driven by a 100 h.p. slip ring electric induction motor at 1450 r.p.m.
A 50 h.p. internal combustion stand-by engine is kept in readiness for bringing cabins into the stations in case of power failure.
Built at a cost of £125,000 (the contractor was British Chairlifts Limited/British Ropeway Engineering Co. Ltd who had previously built the EXPO 67 Cabin Lift: Details here), it was the idea of a Uttoxeter businessman called Anthony Bagshaw who had previously been involved with the Alton Towers theme park (where a similar Cabin Lift had been installed in 1963). It was opened for business by Lord Mostyn on the 20th June 1969 (after a certain amount of local opposition in the Council Chamber to the 'new fangled' idea which was rejected outright the first time it was proposed). It was also fully renovated in 2006 following the sale of the business by Uttoxeter Investment Co. Ltd. The purchaser was a local man, Andrew Jones, of Pyllau Farm on the Great Orme, who says he used to tell people that one day he would own it. He was also one of the first passengers when it originally opened in 1969.