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If It's Speed You're After . .
By The Hawk
TD V. W. Pilkington. Leyland technical director, my thanks for this lovely extract from a newspaper report about some paintings which made a 25-mile journey in 41 days.
A railway official said: "They were found at Sheffield and delivered immediately by road. Had it not been urgent they would still have been delivered by train."
Where Were They ?
A SKED if the paintings had, in fact, been lost, the spokesfl-man said: "Of course we did not know exactly where they were until they arrived, but you would not expect the Post Office to know the exact whereabouts of a letter at any given moment after you have posted it."
But then, the Post Office deliver over a rather longer distance than 25 miles—within a day!
Through the Curtain
AFEATURE of Russian technical journals—apart from the obvious difficulty of trying to understand them—is the lack of advertisements that they carry. The reasons for this are fairly obvious. Not all Russian journals are entirely devoid of advertisements, however.
One which arrives regularly in these offices, and the title of which looks something like "Avtomobilbnbii Mransiorm," normally carries a few pages of advertisements, which are invariably inserted by British companies including Rubery 138
Owen, Alltools, Ltd., and Rootes. Commer-Karrier in Russian reads " KOMMEP-KAPPNEP."
Still Around TLIKE anniversaries, because lots of snippets of information come to tight during the nostalgic talk of the past, that would otherwise never be unearthed. I picked up one such snippet at
he 50th Birthday lunch of Maidstone and District Motor "iervices. Ltd., last week. It concerns their first head office, a ample glass and timber ticket office of the modest proportions isually found in those early days.
This hut, I find, is still in existence. It now stands in the Orecourt of the company's Postley Road works. Not now, I gather, with any particular utility—it's just that nobody wants o get rid of it.
Friendly Busmen
THE lunch, incidentally, brought back to our delighted eyes such friendly characters as G. F. French (whose father 'ounded the company) who retired as managing director in [947 and P. E. Graefe, who was secretary for 33 years until ie became general manager in 1947, retiring seven years ago. 4oth Mr. Graefe and Mr. French are as active as ever. Of course, the present period is one when many passenger chicle undertakings are celebrating jubilees or other long-lived inniversaries. and nobody can get to all of them. But few, feel, could radiate a better spirit than did this function.
Bona'lack Golf
A S they can produce not only the Amateur Champion but r. also four other players of international or county standard 3earing the name of BonaBack, it does not surprise me that this Itd-established bodybuilders should select a golf tournament Ls a form of entertainment for their customers and suppliers, rhis is what they did recently, at Thornden Park and Maylands. "iome of the guests even came from Scotland—proof, surely, of he popularity of this function!