Rail Ruins Goods, says Rub ery Owen
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pECAUSE many of their products
sent by rail are damaged in transit, Rubery Owen and Co., have decided, in future, to use road transport whereever possible.
"Compensation from the railways is of little use if we get dissatisfied customers," said Mr. E. W. B. Owen, joint managing director of the company, last week, "Now, wherever possible, we are sending stuff by road, because damage caused in transit must undermine our confidence in the railways to handle goOds of this type. It was cheaper to send goods by rail; but with the need for special packing material, that means of transport will be dearer than sending goods by road." Mr. Owen quoted the case of a costly aluminium showerbath which had been consigned to Edinburgh securely packed. It was returned with its sides stoved ill. A steel filing cabinet which had been dispatched wrapped in waxed paper and corrugated cardboard and enclosed in a crate of I-in, timber, had been returned from Parkstone. in Dorset. with its sides crumpled. The framework was beyond repair, and the cabinet had if be serapped