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and delivery vehicles were last week granted to Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd., to work within a 15-mile radius of Glasgow and feed the company's long-distance fleet. They had applied for three vehicles, but Mr. W. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, pointed out that they already had two lorries on this work.
Mr. Alex Callender, traffic manager, said they now had great difficulty in coping with collection and delivery work because of a shortage of vehicles. It was undesirable to have trunk vehicles on these local runs as valuable time was lost.
Mr. J. Law, for the company, said they did a great amount of hiring and this would continue. Several customers had indicated that they were not satisfied with the service they were now getting, simply because of collection and delivery troubles.
Making the grant, Mr. Quin said he thought it reasonable to double the company's present number of collection and delivery vehicles.
LOADS TAKEN KY ROAD TO THE LEIPZIG FAIR
OVER last week end, two York .15-16-ton semi-trailers of Continental Ferry Trailers, Ltd., undertook a movement from this country to behind the Iron Curtain. They had been taken around the north of England and London to collect machinery and equipment for exhibition at the Leipzig Fair, and On Saturday morning arrived in Antwerp from Tilbury to be hitched to tractors operated by the Dutch Konig concern.
Setting out from the Belgian port early. that day, they were scheduled to arrive at Leipzig on Monday afternoon. After unloading they were due back in the Brussels area on Wednesday.
When the Fair is over, some of the exhibits will be shifted to the Hanover Fair, and others will be brought back as_ return loads. The movement was arranged in conjunction with the Kinghana Advertising Agency, who are responsible for handling the exhibits of various British manufacturers at Leipzig.
PERKINS PRODUCTION PLANS EXPLAINED TO EMPLOYEES
THE assurance that F. Perkins, Ltd.. now taken over by Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., would continue to operate as a separate company developing and selling their engines throughout the world, was given by Mr. A. A. Thornbrough, Massey-Ferguson president, at a factory meeting last week.
Mr. Thornbrough told employees that his company's requirement this year was 160,000 engines and it was intended, "as time will permit," to transfer nearly all this work to Perkins.
The founder of the Peterborough company, Mr. Frank Perkins, who continues as chairman, said that in 1957 the factory produced 75.000 engines.