The airfield was sold by the Ministry of Defence in the mid 1960s and is currently home to a variety of businesses including a cement factory, a chicken litter power station, haulage firms and light industrial units spread out over the 334 acre (135 hectare) site.
Each year there are 300 million hazardous material shipments in the U.S. It is hard to make light of such a scale of haulage.
Their specialized function stems from five unusual characteristics: light traffic, traffic mostly in one direction, haulage, traffic of long and heavy trucks.
Markham recommended crossing native horses with other breeds for particular purposes, for example suggesting Turks or Irish Hobbies as an outcross to produce riding animals, Friesland and Flanders horses to produce light driving animals, and German heavy draught horses to produce heavy haulage animals.
All European trains, including freight trains, are much lighter than trains on U.S. railroads, which have traditionally concentrated on the efficient haulage of thousands of tons of freight per train.
All this can be summed up under three headings: improved road safety, better working conditions for drivers and, above all else, helping law-abiding haulage companies to be more competitive rather than sitting back and watching those that sit lighter to the law getting away scot-free with forcing their drivers to work longer hours than are permitted, simply because they are not checked up on.
The haulage industry is suffering.
You will register, passim, successful applications for automobiles, phonographs, rotary kilns, haulage systems, auditory telegraphs, magnetos, waterproof paint, stencil pens, railway signals, talking dolls and enough variations on the theme of incandescent light to give you photon fatigue.
This was no sea or land haulage.
