Impressive New Buildings for Northern Concern
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NEW 5,500 sq. ft. distribution shed and office block has recently been ompleted for Norman's Transport, Ltd., those headquarters are at Failsworth. lanchester. The offices and drivers' aoms are centrally-heated, and an itercorn. system is to be installed. The ard is floodlit for night work and a urglar-alarm system switches on these ghts in addition to sounding warning eyices if the shed doors are tampered Scheduled Runs
Norman's Transport operate in an area etween Edinburgh and Plymouth on 11 ;heduled runs, most of which are made vice a week. Vehicles return full when/er possible and off-load at various lorthern distribution centres. In future, re company hope to use .their new remises for some of this distribution. They have 14 vehicles on A licence. vvo are articulated, with two semiailers each, and are used to fetch goods am local factories. The other 12 are gid pantechnicon-type vans, one of 900 cu. ft. capacity, three of 1,800 cu. ft. ipacity and the rest of 1.600 cu/ ft. tpacity. Six bodies are on Bedford SB 30-ft. chassis, seven on Ford, and one on a B.M.C. Norman's are at present experimenting with colour-impregnated glass fibre bodies.
'The bulk of the company's work is with the Prestige Group, Ltd., Holborn, London, for whom they are a distribution centre. Loading and sorting are by palletization. and with a portable conveyor with a 10-ft. extension to reach into their large bodied vans, a combination that has reduced the labour needed from six to three men per lorry. Four vehicles can be loaded or off-loaded at once, when backed against the sliding doors set into the side of the shed.
Model T Ford Norman's Transport, Ltd., started In business well over thirty year ago. At that time 1a single second-hand Ford T-type lorry was employed. Today Norman's are building up business especially on express distribution, for which they believe there is a large and growing demand.