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By The Hawk
Rara Avis
UNDER so original a managing director as Mr. H. Orme White, it is scarcely surprising that the Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co. should be rich in unconventional features. One of the extended experiments going on now concerns the performance of two air-cooled Deutz oil engines, mounted in Guy chassis with 56-seat double-deck bodies. With some 150,000 miles on the clock between them, these engines are giving allround satisfaction by their quiet, smooth running and small maintenance demands.
Things are always apt to be different with Gosport and Fareham, so perhaps one should accept without surprise that one of these buses is driven by the petite and charming Mrs. Dorothy Rapson.
She has driven buses for the company since 1944 and Mr. White tells me that it is only when someone else takes out her Deutz that she has been known to voice a mild protest. A thought, perhaps, for recruitment officers.
Fit of the Blues
THE "Wearing of the Green" is likely to be the top tune in Bolton Transport Department if Cllr. W. E. Cockburn has his way.
He thinks feminine, well-cut green uniforms, instead of the present dark blue, for conductresses would improve morale and attract the public. The staff have mixed feelings on the subject, but at least one Irish girl is strongly in favour of the change.
Shades of the Throuble!
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Cut Throat
TrRE is a touch of irony about the design of the new ammell Trunker 10-wheeled 4,000-gal, tanker described on pages 144-146. It is a-splendid example of how free from the nuisance and expense of lubrication a modern commercial vehicle can be made, yet it has been built for an oil company, part of whose living depends on the sale of lubricants.
Recirculation
FOLLOWING the loss of 1 17i miles of tram rail, the general manager's reputation and a solid silver yak trough on an ebony plinth, the Kaotic State Tramways Board have appointed a special officer, Mr. 0 So Lo, to investigate these and other discrepancies. Like other far-seeing administrators, he is using the recirculatory system of organization in his department. It will have two sections.
Section A, whose function will be to lose vast quantities of everything, will consist of a band-picked team recruited mainly from retired quartermasters. Section B, staffed wholly by State-educated morons, will try to find the things lost by etion A. Under Mr. 0 So Lo's able direction, losses will ow bigger and better, and so will the establishment and the Lary of the head of the department.
Mr. 0 So Lo told the Kaotic representative of The Corn?rcial Motor: "In approaching my fascinating new responslities my guiding principle will be, 'I'm all right, Yak '."
he Amazon
UOMEN are driving tippers in the north of England, but V even their stout efforts are probably eclipsed by 36-year1 Mrs. Joan Pound, of Penryn, Cornwall. She looks after r husband (a wholesale and retail vegetable merchant) and ree children, runs an hotel and drives a Dodge oil-engined tonner on night hauls with vegetables for Covent Garden ' arket and Southampton.
Most of her driving is during the season for Cornish broccoli, ring cabbage and early potatoes, from November until June. Le started driving lorries at the age of 17 and is said to have vered more than 500,000 miles. She is the first woman ember of the newly formed Dodge Drivers' Club.
'idden Meaning
"HE little symbol that I show here is charged with psychological significance. The combination of an arrowhead linting to the right, a circle within it and a forward-leaning represent, so Dunlop tell me, "a vigorous, forward-looking, ternational company." The circle, I hasten add, does not signify membership of a re ring.
The symbol will identify Dunlop and their oducts throughout the world. It was osen from a large number of designs bmitted by advertising agencies and artists Britain, France and Germany. It is the ntrepiece of an advertising campaign iich began yesterday.