Cricket Runs in the Turner Family
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Bird's Eye View By The Hawk
A NOTHER honour has been bestowed on the T.R.T.A.'s cricketing president, Mr. K. C. Turner. This one is, so to speak, from the " opposition." He has been elected a director of Detby County Football Club. When we included Mr. Turner in our " Men Who Make Transport" series recently, author Harold Champion told us all about Mr. Turner's love for cricket.
But he didn't tell us about the T.R.T.A. president's eldest son, Guy Turner, who /las opened all this season for Renton in partnership with Richard Hutton (whose father is also a well-known cricket enthusiast, from Yorkshire). The two have chalked up a lot of big opening partnerships, and have also collared the record for a public schools first-wicket partnership, when they scored 268, both getting a century.
Another Fuel Tax
OVERHEARD (where, shall be nameless): "It's all very well people complaining about 3d. extra on the price of a gallon of fuel. Do you realize that at the same time beer went up by 8d. a gallon?"
Transport M.P.
GLASGOW, it seems, will almost certainly shortly be the proud possessor of a Member of Parliament who is also a genuine specialist in road transport. As such is the case, the industry is very grateful to the electors of that city (or, at least, the Bridgeton division of it).
A30 Mr. James Carmichael, the present Labour M.P. for the division, is resigning, and the new Labour candidate is Court. James Bennett, former convenor of the Corporation Transport Committee and former member of the Central Transport Consultative Committee. He is still a member of the Scottish Transport Users Consultative Committee and the Glasgow Passenger Transport Advisory Committee.
What if the Tories get in (Labour had a majority of 8.909
at the last election)? Why their Malcolm McNeill.
candidate is haulier, Mr.
Any addition to the ranks of transport-minded M.P.s has my vote every time.
Wakey, Wakey !
DOZING at the wheel is a menace, especially on long night hauls. In an effort to combat this, a new device has been developed in the U.S. Wired into a vehicle's electrical system, the device automatically sets off a series of warning signals every 60 seconds to jolt drowsy drivers. The signals—a flashing dashboard light and an automatic sounding of the horn—can be terminated by depressing and releasing the horn button.
Jolt
FA1LURE to respond, however, results in a severe jolting action, which is achieved by switching the ignition on and off in rapid succession! Personally, the device terrifies me. I cannot imagine anyone going to sleep whilst driving such a vehicle, but I'm sure it would turn me completely neurotic to be bombarded by the device every minute of an all-night haul.
Sign of the Times
SEEN in a lay-by on a Lancashire main road recently 1.3 gang of road menders having their morning tea break. Nothing very unusual about this. you say? Maybe not, except that two of the gang were taking tea and sandwiches whilst sitting in their Jaguar. . . .