£100,000 ROAD-TO-RAIL PACT WON'T MEAN HIRE FLEET CUT
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by IAIN SHERRIFF
THE CONTRACT hire fleet operated by Brown and Poison Ltd., of Paisley, will not be reduced despite the fact that the firm has signed an agreement with British Railways for the collection and delivery of longdistance bulk traffic.
The five-year contract is worth £20,000 annually and involves one container daily in each direction between Glasgow and London.
The Brown and Poison director of manufacturing, Mr. G. Shaw, and BR's commercial director for Scotland, Mr. R. B. W. Bolland, concluded negotiations in Glasgow last week. Mr. W. Miller, transport and distribution manager of Brown and Poison, told me this week: "This will not re duce our contract hiring and the bulk of the Glasgow-London traffic will continue to travel by road. The BR contract can be looked upon very much as an experiment."
Mr. Shaw says the semi-switch is a matter of economics: "The traffic is considered to be better suited to rail than road," he said, but he pointed out that the company has other traffic which is better suited to road than rail. On the transferred traffic there will be a saving of 10 per cent.
Other long distance traffic to Hull, Grimsby, Birmingham and Cardiff will continue to travel by road in York Freightmaster semi-trailers. "It is not likely that we will transfer all of our long-distance traffic to rail," said Mr. Miller.