Bain and Hodge Acquire Gomms
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IN a deal involving some £144,500, Bain I and Hodge Ltd.. haulage and wharfage group of Dunstable, Beds, has acquired the entire issued share capital of Gomms Transport Ltd., the Cardiff and transport warehousing firm. Consideration was 170,000 ordinary 5s. shares in Bain and Hodge credited as fully paid; the shares are currently quoted at 16s.
About 100 vehicles are operated by Gomms Transport, which before the take-over was a subsidiary to Gomms Commercial Motors Ltd. Bain and Hodge became a public company in 1963 and last February merged with the C. E. Dormer group in a Qui, deal.
Granada Gets M5 Service Contract GRANADA MOTORWAY SERVICES has awarded a £612,000 building contract to Higgs and Hill Ltd. for the new Granada motorway service area at Frankley on the M5 near Birmingham. Work has started and will be finished in time for the opening of the motorway at the end of 1965.
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. the'.Grartada. Frank-Icy service area will be able to seat a total of 640 in its cafeterias, grill rooms and transport cafes on both sides of the motorway. There will be 48 pumps selling five different brands of petrol and four of diesel oil and an emergency breakdown service will be available.
The service area, covering 18 acres, and with a staff of more than 300, will have car parks for 300 cars and lorries, with room for expansion. It will also have information kiosks. sweetshops, tobacconists, bookstalls and post offices and washrooms.
Off-street Parking
THE Minister of Transport last week
promised to do all he could to bring pressure to bear on the local authorities to provide off-street parking for lorries in London.
Lorries parking in residential streets were a very great nuisance, he told M.P.s,. but he had no legislative power to do anything about it. Very much more could be done than had been done so far, he added, and he was willing to have discussions, with local authorities. He was making an appeal to the Greater London Council to do a great deal more than had been done hitherto.