NEIGHBOURS-TO-BE -ON f3/4m SITES
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LEP TRANSPORT LTD. (220 Londonbased vehicles), Ralph Hilton Transport Ltd., and J. Sainsbury Ltd. (361 vehicles) are to occupy neighbouring sites on a 26-acre area at Charlton vacated by United Glass Works. Hilton is to centralize its various London warehouse and transport depots on 5.2 acres; Lep is opening a new warehouse and transport depot on 2.85 acres; and Sainsbury is developing 14.7 acres as a distribution depot with extensive cold storage facilities. Cost of these areas is estimated at £3/4m. The sites are adjacent to the A2 and River Thames.
• A special meeting has been arranged by the RHA Derby sub-area at The Corporation Hotel, Cattle Market, Derby, on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Mr. H. J. McPhillips, of the MoT, will talk on braking, plating and vehicle maintenance and answer questions. Edmunds Walker Ltd. representatives will be there.
• Work starts soon on the construction of a three-mile-long £1,059,116 by-pass by Sydney Green (Civil Engineering) Ltd., for Amesbury on the London-Penzance trunk road (A303) in Wiltshire.