P and 0 expands general haulage
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• The general haulage operations of P & O Road Services (whose fleet includes the Jones and Thomas Allen bulk liquid tankers previously run under the Coast Lines banner) are to be expanded and reorganized. Several companies are being amalgamated to form larger operating units.
In the north, Jarvis Robinson Transport and Cranmer Cartage Ltd -two old-established Merseyside fleets — are to merge to form Jarvis-Cranmer Transport Ltd. Based at Bootle, the new company will specialize in container transport, overnight trunk services and contract hire activities throughout the northwest.
In southern England and South Wales Coastal Roadways, Russell Davis, Blackmores Motor Transport, and the general haulage activities of Thomas Allen Ltd are being brought together to trade under the existing title of Coastal Roadways Ltd. Its services to the major ferry and container ports will be controlled from company headquarters at Felixstowe. P & O Road Services' chairman, Mr P. H. R. Turner, a former national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, has placed the new general haulage groupings under the control of his development director, Mr E. M. Hains.