NFC will be tough but fair
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• On Tuesday Mr. L. Holdemess, the administrative officer • at the National Freight Corporation, read a paper on the work and business of the NFC to the London division of the Industrial Transport Association. The paper had been written by Mr. R. Sallis, development officer of NFC, who was indisposed. It outlined the objectives of the Corporation and detailed its place in the transport industry.
Mr. Sallis maintained that the interests of NFC possibly constituted the biggest road haulage undertaking in the world although it was a comparatively small part of the total road haulage scene. The NFC intended to be a continuing, lively part of this scene and while it continued to be a member of the RHA it also would continue to be a hard competitor, tough but fair.
The paper pointed out that operators' licences and transport managers' licences applied to the NFC in the same way as they did to other sections of the industry, as would special authorizations which would not be introduced by the Government until it judged that the time was right.
Although there was no-one involved in the NFC who would too precisely determine the dividing line between the activities of HQ and companies, their activities did fall into two separate categories. Headquarters governed the undertaking as a whole while the individual companies managed their own activities. The types of service provided by NFC fell into three main categories:
parcels and smalls carried by British Express Carriers Ltd. and its subsidiaries; full loads and container traffics carried by BRS Ltd., Freightliners Ltd., Containerway and Roadferry Ltd., and the Tayforth General Haulage Group; and special traffics carried by Pickfords Ltd, Harold Wood and Sons Ltd. and Tayforth Tanker and Heavy ,Haulage Companies.