Carlisle as Haulage Centre?
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HE large-scale developinent of the I Carlisle area as a key transport centre, especially for goods haulage, is visualized in a report which has recently been accepted by the Carlisle Joint Advisory Planning Committee. . Already the road and rail crossroads between England and Scotland and the industrial areas of Tyneside and West Cumberland, Carlisle will be served by the proposed M6 motorway, while its airport has become established in recent years and a vast new railway marshalling yard is being built a few miles north of the city. Also, the report states, there has been increasing demand by nationwide transport undertakings for sites for road haulage depots, and others for warehouses connected with regional and local marketing. Now the report recommends the accommodation of road haulage and similar concerns in large group sites near the northern and southern ends of the Carlisle section of motorway, and suggests meanwhile the temporary use of land at the airport for warehousing and haulage depots. B.R.S. have long had a depot on A6, a few miles south of Carlisle, and on April 10 the new S.P.D. distribution centre for Unilever products is to be opened officially at Low Harker, just north of the city.
TYRE SERVICE AT SHAP
faA TYRE service station has been Opened by Gorrill's; Ltd., of Newcastle upon Tyne, at The Tyre House, Main Street. Shap, Westmorland. A round-the-clock tyre service is available close to Slap Fell with all tyre breakdown schemes honoured. Tel.: Shap 618, day and night.
TILLOTSON PROFIT
ANET group trading profit of 144,619 after taxation was made by Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., last year. The corresponding figure for 1960 was £49,385.
NEW ADDRESS
AS from March 25 the address of the registered office of the Institute of Traffic Administration will be 36 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Tel.: Abbey 6000.