Thos. Tilling Re-enter Road Haulage
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AN active re-entry into road haulage was made last week by Thomas Tilling, Ltd., who sold out their previous bus and haulage interests to the British Transport Commission in-1948. Thomas Tilling took a 75-per-cent. interest in Messrs. R. Hanson and Son, Wakefield, who operate 52 vehicles under A and
contract-A licences. .
"It was -the result of a mutual understanding between Mr. Hanson and our company," said a Thomas Tilling spokesman last week. "There are no specific plans for development of the haulage concern, but itis the policy of Thomas Tilling to show interest in expanding concerns," he added.
Management and operations will continue to be controlled by the former proprietor, Mr. John Hanson. The firm started 15 years ago.
Thomas Tilling also increased their interest in ancillary operation last week by their purchase, through subsidiaries, of various quarries, sand and gravel pits and mineral rights in Scotland and Yorkshire.
It is understood that Thomas Tilling will continue to act as a holding company and that operation of the transport fleets-will be independent.
COACH PARK AT SCARBOROUGHTO STAY OPEN
THERE is to be no major alteration 1 to coach-parking arrangements in Scarborough this year. Plans for closing the town's big coach park at Valley Road, in favour of parks in William Street and Burniston Road, have been shelved by the finance committee.
They agreed last week to drop the scheme for dividing coach traffic during the summer and to ask the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to route all express coaches, and those on excursions and tours, into Valley Road. Vehicles going to private parks would be excepted.
The committee will now consider suggestions for getting visitors quickly from Valley Road to the seafront.
NORTHERN ROADWAYS' MOVES 1k A OVES to expand their coaching at activities have been made by Northern Roadways, Ltd., Glasgow. Lennox House, Balloch, has been bought and is being rebuilt as a hotel for 500 people. It will be a Loch Lomond tours centre.
Highland Lass Estates, Ltd., an associated concern, have acquired the Strathpeffer Spa hotel,, in the north of Scotland, and are spending £50,000 on reconditioning it.
SPEED LIMITS STAY
PRESENT policy was that commercial vehicles should adhere to speed limits on roads built to motorway standards but not motorways in themselves. Mr. Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport, gave this answer last vveek in reply to a question put by Sir Thomas Moore (Cons., Ayr).