C-Licensee Wants to Get Back on Railways
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TNLESS the road construction pro.d gramme in this country could be apidly accelerated, our roads, which vere particularly out-of-slate in the outh West of England, would become o overcrowded that manufacturers could be turning once again to the ailways as a means of quicker distribuion. This was said by Mr. N. R. "rahair, managing director of Farley's nfant Food, Ltd., in a paper presented
o the Institute of Traffic Administration ii Plymouth last week.
Mr. Trahair went on to say: "This could seem to me a national developnent and one which we would welcome lecause we never really feel that we hould be cluttering up the roads with ,11 this heavy transport, provided that he railways can give us a fast and 'conomical service.
Solving Congestion Problem "IL would seem to me they would go • long way towards solving the overrowding on the roads, if only they ould introduce high-speed goods trains apable of handling lightweight and lerishable goods, that could run daily rom Plymouth to the main centres of he country, maintaining the supplies at lur depots. From these depots, we could continue, to make our own ldiveries in our small and medium-sized 'ans."
Mr. Trahair also remarked: "I also hink that it is a pity we do not make etter use of our coastal seaway services chich, I would have thought, could have a.ken quite a lot of the load off the oads." Until 1948 all Farley's traffic went by rail. It was only after this date that the company began to run its own C-licensed transport. Now, said Mr. Trahair, only 5 per cent. of Farley's traffic went by rail, rather less than 5 per cent, by coastal seaways, and 90 per cent. by road (70 per cent. of which was on their own vehicles).
Mr. Trahair went on to say that his company were much impressed by certain firms which acted as their distributing agents around the country. These people, he said, were specialists in distribution. It was a development which he thought manufacturers would have to make more and more use of in the future.
From Mr. Trahair's point of view this set-up was a rather satisfactory one. "We do not want to be over-bothered with transport., Transport is not our business. All we're concerned with is getting our goods to the right place, in the right condition, at the right cost and at the right time," he said.
Tattoo Tours Approved
PERMISSION to run tours from Forfar to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo was granted by the Traffic Commissioners in Dundee last week to R. Davidson and Son, Forfar.
Mr. Robert Davidson jun. said his firm had already been taking parties, principally from the local factories, to the tattoo under private hire, but they had had inquiries from others who did not wish to go on privately organized outings. Meanwhile they had to go 14 miles to Dundee to join a tour there.