B.R. Would Not Bring Lorry Back
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WHEN Mr. A. Webb, director of VI' A. E. Clarke and Co. (Tools), Ltd.. Snow Hill, Birmingham, and Mr. A. Organ, sales representative, decided to drive to Italy to bring back a 15,000 boring machine and save time by doing the delivery themselves, British Railways told them that they would ferry their lorry across the Channel, but would not carry it back loaded.
"They even refused to consider bringing the lorry and machine back if we unloaded our cargo," Mr. Organ said this week. Finally. Bit. guaranteed that they could bring the machine to England within seven days, in co-operation with the Italian and French Railways.
MICROGRAMS
-Safe Drivers Rewarded : Batchelors Foods, Ltd., have distributed more than £500 in safe-driving awards to their employees during the past year.
Title Change: The title of the Parkstone Transport Co., Ltd.. Cranbrook Road, Park. stone, Poole, has been changed to Cusick Transport (Southern), Ltd.
Scholarship Renewed: The Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., have renewed for a further four years their £150 a year scholarship at Loughborough College of Technology.
No Nationalization : Because of shortage of money, proposals for forming the various bus companies in Kuala Lumpur into a public corporation have been dropped.
Maintenance Costs Up: Lancashire County Council will spend £167,035 on running its vel*le maintenance unit this year. This is an increase of E12.480 op the figure for 1957.
Undertaking's Success: Grimsby and Cleethorpes joint transport undertaking has proved a success, Mr. J. P. Murphy, chairman of the transport committee, said, last week.
Staggering Report: The full report of the first year's work of the committee conducting the campaign for the staggering of working hours in Central London will be published on April 2.
To Spend Vim: Nearly £8m. will be spent over the next four years on new plant and buildings for the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. The Banbury and Birmingham works will be further modernized, and the rolling mill at Rogerstone (Mon) is to be expanded.