Common Market Coal Haulage Plan
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rAA PLAN which, it is claimed, will export coal more quickly than by rail has been evolved by Nottingham and District Hauliers, Ltd, It has been designed with Britain's entry into the Common Market in mind.
Mr. W. H. Winchcombe, chairman of the firm, said that house coal and domestic smokeless fuel would be transported to the docks by heavy goods vehicles before being ferried, across the Channel."We feel ours will be a much quicker and better service than that provided by railways between the ports," he added.
Mr. Winchcombe was speaking at his firm's annual dinner in Nottingham. Another speaker, Mr. C. G. Simmonds, deputy marketing director of the East Midlands Division of the N.C.B., said there was a continuing need for road transport in the East Midlands because of the increase of deep-mined coal.