Squeeze-year Allisons doubles its pre-tax profit
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A PRE-TAX PROFIT jump of almost 100 per cent over 1966 will be announced to the shareholders of Allisons Freightlines Ltd., Dundee, at the Group's annual general meeting on October 2. The board secretary, Mr. B. S. Vinter, said this week that Group profit before taxation for 1967 was £98,570 compared with £50,785 last year.
This year the Group has acquired three new businesses—at Hull, Nottingham and London. It has also opened two new terminals at West London and North East Glasgow adjacent to the motorway network.
Promise of expansion in the Continental field is given in the director's report: the group has opened offices at Felixstowe, Hull and Rotterdam. Storage and handling facilities there have been designed to cater for container or roll-on/roll-off traffic, and unit load or groupage services.
• MR. J. LANE, of the MoT, will address Newcastle Transport Managers' Club on October 2 and answer a questionnaire prepared by its committee and officers from the Road Haulage Association, Traders Road Transport Association, Industrial Transport Association, National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers and the Northern Road Transport Owners Association. Members from these associations will be welcome. Venue: Robin Adair Hotel, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Time: 7.30pm.
BE THANKFUL for small problems, you may be lucky. . . . This could have been said of the men delivering this multi-wheel transporter to the Scheuerle stand at the Frankfurt Show last week.
In spite of the fact that its 16 pairs of twinoscillating axles were all steered, the transporter was proving difficult: it refused to negotiate a ramp leading to the stand.
After a quarter-hour of discussions and weighing-up the situation, the problem suddenly grew worse:—
The heavy tractor, which had been on the ramp, suddenly decided that it could stand still no longer. There was a loud crunch and the tractor was up to its axles in timber.