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BIG MILEAGES BY SOUTHERN ROADWAYS BEDFORDS.
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ALL those who have occasion to use the London to Bournemouth road will almost inevitably encounter a Southern Roadways lorry. The company operates some 50 vehicles of widely varying capacities, and run daily services over the "lower half" of England. It operates one of the largest delivery services in the south, as well as similar services in London and the Midlands.
. Southern Roadways, Ltd., is a concern of wharfingers, warehousemen, and transport specialist's, with headquarters at Poole, and transport offices in London and Birmingham. At Poole Collecting milk from farms. Its lorries visit a good Many farms in Dorset— once a day in winter, twice in summer. Southern Roadways, Ltd., has an important contract with Bladen Dairies, Ltd., and several vehicles bear the name of that concern which sells its milk in cartons and not in bottles. southern Roadways' motors collect these cartons from the up-to-date dairy near Bere Regis, and deliver as far afield as London and Margate. The first Bedford was put into service two years ago. It did so well that since then the company has "bought 13edfords extensively." They are used to replace old-fashioned, heavy vehicles, and are proving very successful. Several of them have covered over 100,000 miles—one did 80,000 in 15 ai oaths !
Statements showing running costs are regularly prepared, and Southern Roadways, Ltd., finds that the Bedfords comparefavourably with other lorries of their size and type. A firstclass engineering department maintains the vehicles in tip-top condition.