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Has Anyone Lost 3 Gorilla?
NHO left a list of the Queen's 3ngagements on a London )us? Even Harold Welling, who las just retired after 23 years in _ondon Transport's Lost 3 roperty Office, doesn't know.......
Does The Bus Float?
BETTY HYDE and her 100 colleagues at London Transport's travel information centre answer an average of up to 3,500 telephone calls a day and handled a record 12,863 on the TUC's......
Didn't Inquire About A "bathroom."
Anxiety neurosis must have prompted: "If a bus falls in the river, will it float?" Slave of the hot stove: "Is there a hold-up on the Central Line tonight?" "No, madam." "That......
First A Lincolnshire Road Car Driver Was In Trouble For
sporting a male chauvinist pig tie. Now Aberdeen taxi drivers have fallen foul of the local police for not wearing ties at all. A by-law requires them to be clean and tidy,......
On The Musical National Express
A TWO-WEEK English folk dance and song show in 12 theatres in the south of England is to be sponsored next April by National Express. With sponsorship reaching epidemic......
Where There Is Room For A Hotel
IS THERE a coach operator or a consortium who would like to build an hotel or motel in the beautiful Northumberland national park near the Forestry Commission village of Byrness......
Spanish Pilgrims, Including A Priest, Who Went By Coach To
the Portuguese shrine of Fatima, said that on the returr journey the driver closed his eyes and took his hands off th steering wheel for 20 miles. Then a voice issuing from his......
No Hiccups With The Wine
EVERYONE was careful not to rock the boat when Townsend Thoresen's European Enterpri brought 800,000 bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau from Frar loaded in 54 artics. There was not a......
A Friend Who Went On A Coach Trip To A
stately home told me that at a refreshment stop on the way home she pal E1.52 for two cups of coffee and two custard tarts. Never again, she said. This kind of racketeering......