Journey Time Cut from Six Weeks to 30 Hours C USTOMERS
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in Northern Ireland of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Banbury, are now benefiting from a new direct-delivery scheme. Materials which previously took six weeks to reach their destinations by road, rail and sea, are now delivered 30 hours after leaving the works at Banbury. This achievement has been made possible by using the Preston-Larne ferry.
A Thornycroft aluminium-bodied 5-tonner with an oil engine carries the orders from Banbury to Belfast, and is back at its base after an absence of four days. Handling of the aluminium sheets and extrusions is a tniacy matter, for dents and scratches must be avoided if they are Co be used for aircraft and motor-body construction. •
Loading and unloading are now the only occasions on which the goods are subject to handling: Losses are 21liminated and the empty cases return with the vehicle to the works, instead of being lost to the packing department for several months.
Door-to-door delivery of this kind is of immeasurable value to aircraft manufacturers and others -who, as in this case, are divorced from their material suppliers.
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