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27th September 1986
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• Speedlink is investing more than ,e100,000 in a 48hour mini container service between London and Glasgow, using 11.8m3 containers from Kalmar Industries.

The new Minilink service will operate each night, with eight 5-tonne containers travelling north, and eight south on existing Speedlink trains.

The containers are designed to be loaded and unloaded in a one-man operation from British Rail wagons by specially converted trucks (two Leyland Freighters in London and two Scanias in Glasgow).

Each container is fitted with support legs so that they can stand freely at customers' premises for loading and unloading purposes.

There are two doors on one side of the Minilink container providing access for four 1,000 x 1,200mm pallets or six 800 x 1,200mm Europallets.

Minilink's London depot was officially launched last Thursday (September 25) in Willesden Junction. The Glasgow depot is at Hillington Road, near the M8. A Speedlink spokesman says the service will provide customers with a door-to-door freight service, although he was not prepared to name any customers for the service.

The Leyland Freighters, which will operate for Minilink in London, are standard shortwheelbase models, with special Kalmar lifting gear to load and unload the containers.

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Locations: Glasgow, London

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