Coal on call by radio
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• Nothing in the coal-bin? No problem now for Nottingham householders, Who have only to pick up the phone to get a same-day delivery of fuel via a radio-directed "Heatliner" service just put into operation by one of the city's oldest coal merchants, Simpsons, members of the Hercock Simpson group which is also engaged in general, petroleum and solid fuel haulage, running a fleet of Leyland group vehicles supplied through Ford and Slater Ltd., Leicester.
The new Nottingham delivery service em
ploys an Albion Super Reiver 20 fitted with a Charrold body built in Huntingdon: inside the body a conveyor belt brings the Rexco fuel to the rear-mounted metering and delivery device. The 74--ton vehicle carries a 14-ton load which is picked up at Simpson's °Berton plant. Delivery to any house within a 10-mile radius of the city centre Can be made within hours.