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Transport cafe tollets'appalling'

6th December 1974
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BRITAIN's transport cafes are slammed this week, in a report which describes their toilets and washing facilities for drivers, as appalling. The report conducted by the Council of British Ceramic Sanitaryware Manufacturers — looked at 35 cafes on trunk routes from Birmingham to the ports. In almost all the cafes, which are not named, investigators found "indescribably filthy" WCs and often no washing facilities at all.

The report says it is difficult to understand how such filthy and unhygeinic conditions are allowed to remain in that state in places serving food.

"During the investigation," says the report, "there was no need to look for conditions below a civilized standard; they were there for all to see."

However, in most of the cafes visited, the dining rooms were clean. The RHA had said that it received no complaints about cafes or accommodation. "The reason may be," suggests the report, "that drivers do not complain except when specifically asked. Which is just what the Sanitaryware Council investigators did on the spot — inside the loos "I've never been in it befon and I shan't again" was a no untypical retort from a ca transporter driver.

The report concludes tha the whole matter calls for ; nationwide investigatioi and legislation to lay dowi minimum standards o hygiene. "Transport drivers if forced to use such places must feel dirty for the rest o the journey," it says. And i questions whether publi health authorities ever visi such premises: "Certainl they must constitute a healt risk with flies abundani in the cubicles."