Three Loads on One Ferry Trailer
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ATRAILER carrying three different shipments for Dutch concerns was sent to Holland, last week, by Continental Ferry Trailers, Ltd. It is believed that this was the first trailer ever to make the crossing with a group consignment. The 144-ton load was carried on a Dutch low-loader, which had previously delivered to Purfleet.
The goods were collected • from' Coventry and Midhurst (Sussex) for delivery to Rotterdam, Utrecht and Enschede, and were hauled to the docks by an Atkinson 6LW tractor.
Continental Ferry Trailers were formed by I. Leftley, Ltd., to take over all their ferry work, and started operations on January 1.
OLYMPIAN FOR PEKING FOR trial operation on inter-city services around Peking, a LeylandM.C.W. Olympian 44 seater with Pneumo-Cyclic transmission and air brakes has been shipped to China. It is the first Leyland bus to be sent to China for many years, and will arrive in the s.s. Agapenor at the new harbour of Hsinkiang. It has a front entrance.