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Load Of Manure
From the place that claims to do today what the rest of the country will do tomorrow comes a modest contribution to the English language. Proposing the toast of the guests at......
Slim For Charity
If you have a weight problem, follow the example of 19st 4Ib Peter Bull, a Ford sales planner at Warley. He planned to sell his surplus avoirdupois for charity with a sponsored......
Smoke Screens
Did you notice how many of the heroic lorry-driver pickets could afford to smoke cigarettes at about 50p a packet? Did you, like me, wonder how they managed it on strike pay? Is......
Vc At The Gate
John V. C. Butcher, who lives in Nlarsham Street, Westminster, hard by the Department of Transport, is a brave man. In August, 1977, he formed a one-man picket outside the......
Shot Down
By far the youngest speaker I can remember in the past 15 years at a North-western section dinner, Ian Morgan, who is Ribble's Eastern area manager at Burnley, was appropriately......
Hi-speed Tractor
Blockaded farmers who had to use their own tractors and trailers to trundle beet long distances to sugar factories might have welcomed the new Trantor launched by W. H. S.......
Put To Shame
The service stations catering specially for lorry drivers, of which more than 400 are planned by Les Routiers in France (Commercial Motor, January 19), will put Britain's......
Apology To Music
The cult of the theatrical apology for imperfect service or goods is growing. I suspect strong competition among culprits to produce the best show, which may encourage still......