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Amenities Preserved
By The Hawk
AS hauliers have such difficulty in securing permission to erect garages among residential property, I was interested to see how Mr. John Hutchings, of Four Marks, Hants, had solved the problem. After a long battle with the planning authorities, culminating in an appeal, he has erected an unobtrusive workshop and garage, measuring 60 ft. by 40 ft., on a site in a road lined by red-brick bungalows.
Ile has worked on the principle that the best way to distract attention is to confuse the eye. His bungalow is built of yellow stocks, with a green tiled roof, and provides a further contrast with the neighbouring property by being placed at an angle to the frontage instead of parallel with it. A singlestorey office of similar. design is being built next to the bungalow and in the background, at a different angle. is the workshop and garage, also constructed of yellow stocks. It can aceornModate six vehicles And is equipped for, paint spraying, welding and other work. A large garden ektenits .around the front and side of the Site, at the bottom of which is a Matured red brick wall with sheds and a yard behind it. The whole enterprise has been carried out with good' taste and without disturbing local amenities. The planning authorities must now be wondering why they objected.
Nominal Trouble
r\NE of the difficulties in introducing a new model is to find 4,-.1 a suitable name that does not belong to someone else. Daimler solved the problem with their new 21-litre sports car by getting permission from Dennis Bros. to use " Dart "—the type name of an obsolete Dennis model. "Victor " is duplicated by Albion (bus) and Vauxhall (car). Before the 14-ton-gross _version of the Leyland Comet was announced, Tom Dawson, Leyland's assistant publicity manager, and I racked our brains for more than an hour in a search for an appropriate title. Sherpa (since adopted by someone else) and Trunker seemed to he the most attraetive, but in the event the board settled for the rather unimaginative " Snper Comet."
Pots Galore
MY old friend Laurie Hancock, publicity manager of Perkins, will shortly need a cabinet to house the trophies. won by publications which he edits. His latest success is with On Show, which has received an award of excellence for the second consecutive year in the national house journal competition of the British Association of Industrial Editors.
Perkins News has on four occasions won the Block and Anderson cup in the competition promoted by the British Direct Mail Advertising Association for the best house journal published in Britain, and has twice been placed second.
Hidden Links
wHY are bakers so secretive about their transport operations?
• VV The answer seems td be that many apparently independent companies are controlled by one or two large groups, whose directors are strangely allergic to publicity. The reason for their shyness seems to be worth further consideration.
Revelation
DIDyou hear of the man who spent pounds on chlorophyll and then found that nobody liked him, anyway?