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By The Hawk
-Two leaders of the Dutch road haulage industry had a busy I few days in England hit Week. They Were Mr. 11. W. Ktilnig, president of Royal Netherlands Transport. Enterprises (the Dutch equivalent of the Road Haulage Association) and Dr. C. A. S. Groenman, the secretary. They were on a reciprocal visit and were the guests of York Sub-area of the R.H.A., some of whose members went to Holland last May. . Mr. Jack Bailey, chairman of the sub-area, and Mr. J. H.. Tait, sub-area secretary, met them and, took them to the Commercial Motor Show, after which they went to York. There they were entertained by Capt. T. S. Riley, vice-chairman of the sub-area, and Maj. E S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, joined the party,
Sweet Sorrow • •
AMONO visits arranged for them was one to Rowntrees and their transport associates, N.M.U. (1953), Ltd. Mr. William Bridge, of Flowers Transport, also mit on a -demonstration of pallet loading. After a farewell dinner last Friday they returned to Holland on Saturday. It is hoped that as a result of the link established between hauliers in the York district and in Holland, it will be possible to operate a regular ferry ,service from York to Rotterdam.
Back in the News
MR. HARRY McGHEE, chairman and managing director of Northern Roadways, Ltd., and Travel Trips, Ltd., who created such a stir in long-distance coaching a few years ago, is in the news again. He has bought the pavilion, pump room and spa gardens at Strathpeffer Spa from Viscount•Tarbat.
Strathpeffer is a popular coaching centre, and at Ben Wyvis Hotel, which Mr. McGhee opened in 1947, pressure has been so great that many coach companies have been refused accommodation for next year, A new company is to develop the pavilion, which' will have a new lounge with attendants in Highland costume. This should impress the Americans.
As Good as a Rest?
E idea of a van driver saving up for an Italian holiday L hardly causes the eyebrow-raising that would once have occurred. But when it is Miss M. Robinson, one of the two Women van drivers employed by Raleigh Industries, Ltd., at Nottingham, that's news, for Millie Robinson is a keen racing cyclist.
Early on September 23 she took a flight to Milan and, before dark on September 25, had put up a new world's unpaced hour record for women on the Vigorelli track, covering 24 miles 1,197 yd. in the time. Millie, who hails from the Isle of Man, spends all her spare time cycling and heads the women's section in the cycling Best All-rounder Competition.
From the Heart
rrHE stand of Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., at Earls Court L was invaded by some destructive small boys. Miss D. E. Atkinson, the managing director's secretary, popped out of her cubicle to remonstrate with an urchin who was roughly handling a vehicle which, she explained, had been sold to a customer in Canada.
"If I had bought a vehicle, I wouldn't let you show it here," he said. "Why not ? " asked Miss Atkinson. "What—and have fools like me smash it up I " he said.