Middlesbrough-Namur Direct Removal
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A MIDDLESBROUGH remover, Mr. ti W. Maude, this week undertook a removal to Namur, Belgium, for a local customer who obtained a job there. The customer asked Mr. Maude if his slogan "Any distance" included Belgium, and after checking with the London office of the Belgian State Marine that his Bedford 1,000-cu.-ft. van could be taken on the Dover-Ostend ferry, Mr. Maude contracted for the job.
in business for seven years, Mr. Maude's previous longest journey was to Plymouth, B.T.R. EXPAND: NO MORE TYRES THE British Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., are to expand their operations at Leyland, Lanes, and have bought a neighbouring 32-acre site at Farington. The cost of the ., first stage of new factory development will be about £2m.
No more tyres are to be made by the company, " having regard to the declining economic importance of tyres in relation to the business of the B.T.R. group as a whole."
"RAISE LIMIT" CALL Fr HE Government should not defer raising the 20 m.p.h. limit until operators and trade unions reached agreement upon such action, stated Mr. A. T. Hills, chairman of the London centre of the Institute of. Traffic Administration, last week. He believed that once the limit had been lifted, agreement between operators and unions would follow quickly.
CONGESTION CAUSED BY PARKED VEHICLES
' A CENSUS of traffic using Cadzow .1-1 Street, Hamilton, had shown that the greatest drawback to the easy flow of traffic was caused by the parking of goods vehicles and private cars on both sides of the road. Mr. A. M. Newman, assistant traffic manager of the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., said this before the Scottish Traffic Commissioners at Hamilton last week.
The Commissioners were hearing proposals to re-route buses from the west, via Muir Street, instead of Cadzow Street, to relieve traffic congestion.. Decision was reserved until early next year.
MINISTER CONFIRMS MOTORWAY THE scheme of Lancashire County I Council to build seven miles of motorway between Stretford and Worsley, to form part of the Manchester outer ring road, has been confirmed by the Minister of Transport. The road will cost about £5,pt to build and will be carried over the ship canal on a new high-level bridge which will largely supersede the existing Barton swing bridge. The motorway will provide a ietter approach from north and south to the Trafford Park industrial estate.