Road Transport Benefits Boot Industry A DVANTAGES offered by road transport
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to-the boot and shoe industry were described by the traffic manager of an important Leicester manufacturing concern, with its own chain of retail shops, at a sitting of the East Midland Licensing Authority last week.
Mr. Walker, traffic manager of Messrs. Stead and Siinpsons, gave evidence in support of the application of Mr. B. L. Lyner, Highcross Street, Leicester, for an additional vehicle for his LeicesterPlymouth service. He said that his company could not get goods delivered from its Leicester warehouse to retail establishments at Plymouth and in South Devon towns in less than two days.
Road transport enabled prompt return of packing cases, so that the cases could be refilled and sent out again within the week. That concern had £2,000 invested in packing cases alone, and road haulage permitted the number employed to be reduced to half that otherwise required.
Further, prompt delivery by road transport allowed the centralization of warehousing accommodation at Leicester. " Our shops are generally in fashionable shopping thoroughfares, where rents are high, and road transport enables us to rent only shops, and not shops with large warehousing accommodation as well," said Mr. Walker.
In reply to Mr. H. Mayo, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., Mr. Walker said that packing-cases would not be returned within a fortnight by rail.