Sidney braced for a free fall
10th July 1982, Page 21
10th July 1982
Page 21
Page 21, 10th July 1982
— Sidney braced for a free fall
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RAILWAYS may lack flexibility but railway union leaders at least have an elastic approach to one another. This is implicit in a threat by Derrick Fullick, president of ASLEF, to pick up Sidney Weighell, general secretary of the NUR, by his braces and drop him down a lift shaft. A plan to build two light railways in London's redeveloped dockland is unlikely to provide them with more lift shafts in which to test the law of gravity but might give Sidney an opportunity to drop Derrick by his belt into the water at the Tower of London, where one of the new routes would link with the District and Circle lines.