New 187r1nde Goods Service in Africa
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AREGULAR ser.vice on the 187.. mile route from Nairobi, Kenya, to Arusha, Tanganyika, has been started by Tanganyika Roadways, Ltd., a subsidiary of the Colonial Development Corporation. The -service caters for all classes of traffic, and a minitrami of one journey a week is made by 4covered, locked vehicle carrying smalls.: The journey, two-thirds of which is over earth roads, takes 131 hours and is made overnight.
The service has had an encouraging reception, but some customers are asking for intermediate stops to by made, which the management wishes to avoid. Other traders in Nairobi wish the company to take parcels for places south of Arusha. It is hoped to meet this demand with an inter working arrangement with another carrier. A.E.C. Matador . vehicles carrying 6 tons are being used with trailers hauling 4 tons.
• Tanganyika Roadways. Ltd., has been reorganized, and the heavy losses incurred immediately after the Colonial Development Corporation took it over have been substantially reduced. Its activities have been concentrated on Dar-es-Salaam, Tanga and Arusha.
'DIRECTORY OF EXPRESS CARRIERS NIA MES of over 50 members are
`41 listed in a gazetteer of free-enterprise express carriers recently prepared by the Road -Haulage Association. With the frame, address and telephone number of each carrier are shown the districts he serves and the storage space he has available. Each depot is shown separately.
For the purpose of the gazetteer, the country is divided into 10 regions, cacti of which, in the majority of cases, comprises one or more of the Association's areas. Greater London is given a section to itself.