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A Rail View
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"TS not the time approaching when the 1 competitive struggle over the longer distances is not between rail and road haulier, but between the haulier who trunks on rail and the one who does not? Already with the development of the Freightliner, fewer lorries cross Shap, and I hope that it will soon be as out of date for the road haulier to drive from Glasgow to London as it is to round the Cape under sail."
This vicw was put by Mr. R. A. Long, chief commercial manager, British Railways, to the Merseyside section of the Institute of Transport last week.
He maintained that the railways had now been brought to the point where they could fulfil their right place in the transport system and railways, road hauliers, shipping and docks should work together in developing "this growth traffic" so that all might gain.
Mr. Long. speaking of large containers linking continents, said that already there were risks of incompatibility and there was now an opportunity for all parties to show that co-ordination in transport could develop without legislation.
TOG Profits up 30 per cent
GROSS profit for the Transport Development Group rose from £5,271,000 in 1904 to £6,780,000 in 1965. After higher depreciation charges of £1,862,000 (£1,478,000) the pretax profit was £4,918,000 (L3.793.000). A final dividend of 5i. per cent makes the year's total 13,1 per cent (111 previously) and there is to be a one-for-ten scrip issue.
BRS spends £450,000 with Leyland Group
AN order for 170 vehicles worth £450,000 has been placed by British Road Services with Leyland Motors and Albion Motors. The Leyland order is for 80 Comet tractive units fitted with Scammell couplings (which will be operated in the Midlands, East Anglia and South Wales) and 25 Beaver tractive units powered by 185 b.h.p. versions of the 0.680 engine driving through 6-speed overdrive gearboxes.
The Glasgow end of the order is for 65 Albion Super Clydesdale long-wheelbase chassis designed to operate at 16 tons g.v.w.
£21.m. Rootes Export Order A CONTRACT to supply 2,200 British' manufactured Dodge vehicles to the Pakistan Government was announced by the Rootes Group last week. The order, placed through Chrysler International, is valued at $6,300,000 (12,250,000).
The vehicles, which represent 25 per cent of the Pakistan Government's total vehicle requirements for 1966, are to be manufactured at the Rootes Group plants at Dunstable and Kew.
NSHA Unity
Ar a meeting in Burslem Town Hall on Tuesday, 45 Potteries-based hauliers unanimously approved action taken so far in the formation of the North Staffordshire Hauliers' Association, based in Burslem. During the meeting, the appointment of a full-time executive officer from April I was announced.
The chairman, Mr. E. B. Ellis, said he did not think anyone in the district had any desire to fall out with the RHA or its national policies; their disagreement was with West Midland area actions.
It was reported that an offer made to the West Midland area by local hauliers of the use of offices, telephone and "constant attendance" for 17 10s. a week in order to maintain a sub-area office in Burslem had not been accepted.
No decision on group licences
TN the Commons, Mr. Arnold Gregory (Lab., L Stockport North) suggested that the Road Traffic Act 1960 should be amended so as to enable a company owning not less than 51 per cent of the issued share capital of another company to carry goods for that company under its carrier's licence.
He was told by Mr. Stephen Swing,ler that the Government could not yet say what amendments to the carriers' licensing system might prove desirable as part of the development of policies for the integration of transport. Mr. Gregory's suggestion would, however, be borne in mind.
Nationalized transport losses
THE Nationalized transport undertakings
lost approximately £1,110m. from 1948 to 1964, said Mr. John Morris, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Transport, this week. This figure, he said, was reached after off-setting the surpluses of the London Transport Board, the British Transport Docks Board and the Transport Holding Company. Total expenditure on fixed investment amounted to about £1,980m. over the same period.