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Pigeon Fanciers Switch to Road Transport

6th March 1964, Page 52
6th March 1964
Page 52
Page 52, 6th March 1964 — Pigeon Fanciers Switch to Road Transport
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THE closure and proposed closure of stations under the Beeching Plan has caused racing pigeon fanciers experimentally to switch from rail to road transport for the carriage of their birds.

This was revealed at a public inquiry in Birmingham on Wednesday when William Pepper and Co. Ltd. was granted a B licence for four articulated vehicles with four box van trailers to carry pigeons within 150 miles of the company's Walsall depot. The application, before the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Hall, was unopposed.

Mr. W. G. Cherry, manager of the applicant's Walsall depot, gave evidence that two Midland federations of pigeon racing clubs required a total of four vans a week.

Officials of the Walsall and District Federation of Homing Societies, with 1,250 members, and the Worcestershire and District Federation of Flying Clubs, with 2,500 members, spoke of frequent but unspecified difficulties experienced in sending birds by rail. Their members were not satisfied with the type of service offered by the railways and had agreed to experiment with road transport to carry 4,000 birds a week for a season.


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