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P & 0 Road Service at new hq
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• Headquarters of P&O Road Services Ltd—formed to manage and develop the Group's UK and European operations in specialized and general road transport, were opened on March 20.
The company is the fourth andfinal operating sector to be set up within the widespread P&O European and Air Transport Division. It brings together P&O and former Coast Lines road transport companies, which together operate a combined fleet of over 1000 tractive units and 2000 multi-purpose trailers.
P&O Road Services will co-ordinate the management of bulk liquid and general haulage services, together with warehouse, distribution and other allied activities, from new offices at Hornminster House, 129 Upminster Road, Hornchurch, Essex (tel: Hornchurch 58111).
Companies now under its control include: Thomas Allen Ltd; Blackmore's Motor Transport Co Ltd; Coastal Roadways Ltd; Cranmer Cartage Co Ltd; John Forman Ltd; James Hemphill Ltd; Jarvis Robinson Transport Ltd; A. S. Jones and Co Ltd; Link Line (Continental) Ltd; Northern Warehouse Services Ltd; Henry Smither and Son Ltd; and the recently acquired Solventra N V of Belgium.
The chairman and general manager is Mr P. H. R. Turner, assistant managing director of the Coast Lines Group, and a former national chairman of the RHA.