Rat Race

My earlier mention of rats reminds me of a London hotel used for meetings by the Long Distance Road Haulage Association in the early thirties. I remember particularly a dinner......

Burned Alive

At the time when Gentleman Jim Yorath and his colleagues were setting the GWR alight I was an editorial trainee on CM. The first reporting assignment I remember was an inquest......

Let Own

If that qualifies as one of Wilfred Pickles' celebrated embarrassing moments, what about the chairman of a motor trade cornpany whose wife, obviously uninvited, arrived very......

Contrary

Ted Murphy recalls others in the great team of drivers spanning the south. One, known as Mary Edwards, was singularly unfortunate with animals and once lost a load of pigs when......

Floral Dance

Jim Yorath was, as I recall, one of the elite drivers on the Flower Express from Penzance to London. The London and Southern Counties Transport Co captured the flower traffic......

Sang Froid

Another example of sang froid came from the late Lord Teynham when he was replying to a speech by the chairman at the annual dinner-dance of the former Passenger Vehicle......

Limost A Rent Leman

IHN DARKER's historical search (CM, August 25) ak my mind back about 50 ars, when road haulage is rough and tough but was livened by characters lose idiosyncrasies would t be......