B.T.C. Takes Over Barr Haulage Interests: New Group for R.H.E.
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MEGOTIAT1ONS are in progress for
the acquisition by the British Transport Commission of the haulage businesses of R. Barr (Leeds), Ltd., W. H. Fish and Son, Ltd., and Alf.
Harrison . (Leeds), Ltd. About 50 vehicles are involved, [In fact, these companies are included in the official list of acquisitions from July 17-23.1 Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd., the holding company. has acquired Ruby Tours, Ltd., Torquay, which operates 7-I4-day tours from the South of England to -the Lake District and Scotland.
These announcements were made last Friday by Mr. Robert .Barr, chairman, at the annual general meeting of Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd.
The haulage undertakings will form the nucleus of a group under the Road Haulage Executive. This was indicated by Major F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Atithority, when, after the annual meeting, he Performed the opening ceremony at an extension of the Trust's large garage and workshop premises at Sayner Road, Hunslet, used both by haulage and passenger fleets. As the B.T.C. acquired • further haulage businesses in the neighbour a.28 hood, they would be attached to the group, and it was likely that the R.H.E. would wish -the group to use Or vehicle maintenance and repair facilities at Sayner Road.
Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd., will be left with eight subsidiary companies, headed by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., which has an extensive excurs or/ and tour business.
In his speech at the annual meeting, Mr. Barr said that the company's European tours had been extended to cover Holland, Belgium, Switzerland; Italy and the South of France. ,including the French Riviera.
Mr. Barr stated that the Royston and Pudsey depots had been rebuilt and important extensions had been made to
the works at Huns]et. Land adjoining the Hunslet works was to be purchased to provide one of the finest repair shops in the North of England. A new bus station, with refreshment rooms, had been built at Scarborough.
Wilkes and Meade, Ltd., the company's bodybuilding subsidiary, had added a works at Bradford to the two already existing at Leeds. and the turnover of profits had been almost doubled.