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Dyson to Build Kangaroos: France-Unit Roadiri Rieements
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TWO important steps in the development of road/rail techniques concerning the trans-shipment of traffic between the United Kingdom and the Continent using specialized techniques, were taken last week.
IN PARIS negotiations between trailer manufacturers R. A. Dyson and Co. Ltd. of Liverpool and the French private organization S.T.E.M.A. Societe de Traction et Exploitation de Materiel Automobile—have resulted in an agreernent being signed whereby Dyson can build, under licence, and market in this country and abroad, Kangaroo semitrailers, The Kangaroo system, which was fully described in The Commercial Motor of July 31, 1964, enables trailers of the largest dimensions to be transported on rail wagons to centres throughout France, with branches currently operating in Holland and Belgium.
Eventually it is hoped that the system will embrace Italy and Germany.
Dyson, who pioneered the carriage of trailers on rail wagons in the 1930s are the first manufacturers to obtain rights to build Kangaroo trailers in this country. They will be offering a full range of semi-trailers incorporating the system built to customers' requirements.
IN LONDON an agreement was reached between Traffic Services Ltd. of Clarendon House, 11/12 Clifford Street, London, W.1, who are tanker chartering brokers, and who own and operate internationally running rail tank wagons, and the French commercial concern G.T.T.M. (Groupement Technique des Trans porteurs Mixtes Rail-Route). As exclusively forecast in The Commercial Motor of December 18, 1964, the parties have made arrangements to move across the English Channel liquids, solids and
certain products requiring specialized equipment, on railborne semi-trailers for ternainal delivery by road.
Traffic Services Ltd. will act as the British receiving point for all traffic emanating from the Continent, and they will provide contacts with British receiving destinations. They will also arrange return cargoes, using U.F.R. semi-trailers. (This system will be fully described and illustrated in this journal in the near future.)
Park Now Free AN experimental lorry park, opened three months ago by Middlesbrough Corporation. has proved unsuccessful because, it is reported, of the high charges. Lorry drivers had to pay
fid. for a night's parking, but in future parking will be free and will not be supervised. The Corporation highways committee has been informed that in other towns the overnight parking charge was only about 2s. 6d.