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Early last year it was revealed that the West Cumberland Farmers Trading Society Ltd., Britain's largest farming co-operative with 22,500 members and £30m annual sales, had called in a firm of consultants to advise on its future transport needs. The society expected to face haulage and warehouse costs of basic £1.6m by 1972, plus a substantial supplement as a result of the effects of the Transport Act. The object of the study has been to estimate future needs and possible changes in its 265-vehicle fleet.
The consultants' task was completed about three months ago but so far there is no news of the conclusions reached. Apparently the facts turned up by the investigators have been sufficiently telling to result in a fresh round of studies on the matter. I was not surprised to find that nobody at the society's Whitehaven headquarters had anything to say at the present juncture, but people who maintain those voluminous five-year diaries might find it worth making a note to look for further developments. in 1972.