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: • Private hauliers are providing • about 40 per cent of the business being : done at the Dudley freightliner depot.
• This is one of the facts about the : operations of the freightliner service • which Mr. R. L. E. Lawrence, chairman : and general manager of BR London • Midland Region, gave during the visit : of Mr. N. Carmichael, Parliamentary • Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, : to Midlands' facilities last week.
• Next August a special ISO container • ▪ traffic depot willl be opened in • Birmingham with services running to : Tilbury, Harwich, Holyhead, Felixstowe, Southampton and Newcastle : upon Tyne.
• The Dudley freightliner depot is al e ready handling 100 containers a day, • • and it is expected that it will be work : ing to capacity 300 containers a • day—some time next year.