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Private •Bar
By The Hawk AA LEEDS brewer has opened offices at Harrogate, 16 miles away. The two points are linked by an excellent Diesel train service and a 15-minute bus service operated by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., with the latest vehicles. But the brewery employees are brought to work in the morning by their own private bus, which immediately returns empty to Leeds—an expensive pastime. The vehicle needs no road service licence, so the permission of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners was not required. It might have been difficult to convince Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman of the Commissioners, that the existing facilities were inadequate, as he has been known on more than one occasion to leave his car at Leeds and travel over to Harrogate by Diesel train.
High Finance
WARD times and pawnbrokers were once synonymous.
1 Modern economy (or is it the lack of it?) has changed all that. Now we are told that prosperity and the " never-never " must go hand in hand. The balance sheet recently issued by one finance house leaves no doubt where prosperity lies. Last year customers' deposits increased by over £10m. and a total dividend of 30 per cent, is being paid.
Atomic Coincidence
ny a curious coincidence there appear to be two hauliers named Marriott, both with the initial "A," in the Sheffield area who carry atomic equipment. One of them was recently the subject of an attack by Mr. T. B. Atkinson, the railway solicitor, before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority (The Commercial Motor, March 28). • The other is Mr. Albert Marriott, Jun., 7 Walkley Road, Sheffield, 6, who carries atomic equipment for two major concerns in the steel city. He, I should point out, was not concerned in the licence application that aroused Mr. Atkinson's ire—not, of course, that it ii to the discredit of a haulier to fall foul of the railways in a traffic court: it is an occupational hazard more likely to bring glory.
Catch 'Em Young
" IUTAMMA " or " Dadda " used to be the first ward uttered IVI by a child as it lay kicking and gurgling in its cot. Such is the power of national advertising that the first intelligible sound is now likely to he 011404 Daz or one of the other over-sold detergents. This thought crossed my mind the other day as I sat in a traffic block and read the names of half a dozen well-known detergents written by a childish finger in the mud on the back of a Bedford van.