The June 2012 issue of The Mover is out, and if you haven’t received yours yet then feel free to view it here.
Britannia Sandersteads have recently installed state of the art CCTV equipment in a move to further enhance security and health & safety at its depot in Godstone.
And keeping with Britannia Sandersteads, they have just taken delivery of a new Euro 5 DAF 65 truck as part of their programme to comply with the London Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) requirements. The 6 container, 18 ton, 2400 cubic feet vehicle brings the fleet up to 15 now, however, an additional order has been placed with DAF for two smaller 4 container, 12 ton, 1600 cubic feet vehicles which are due for delivery in September.
The Britannia Annual Conference took place in April in Newcastle. Our congratulations go to Mark Lane of Britannia Lanes of Cornwall for abandoning his car for the weekend and cycling from Land’s End to the conference, all in the name of charity! As is tradition with the Britannia Conference the final event is the annual awards ceremony to honour the best performing Britannia companies in a number of categories. Our congratulations go to Britannia Sandersteads for being awarded Top Shipper, Britannia Ryans for being awarded Outstanding Sales Support and Britannia Sandersteads again for being awarded Outstanding Quality of Service!
Simon Bray of Bray & Son, Maidstone sent in the following photograph of his grandad, Frank Bray who started the company after leaving his wartime service in 1946. His first vehicles were converted army trucks. According to a note on the back of the photograph it was taken just after being loaded ready to head off to a job in Bromley. The photograph was taken sometime in the 1960s. Bray & Son now run a fleet of 10 vehicles from 3.5-36 tonnes!
