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ViewBY THE HAWK ■ 3. Comment on the results that might transpire should the proposal be implemented that road transport drivers be limited to a maximum 9-hour spell of duty.
(Full marks for estimating to within 10 degrees the heat generated by these subjects!)
In at the Deep End
QUOTE from The Woman's Motor Manual by Gladys de Havilland, published by Temple Press Ltd. in 1918, giving advice on becoming a chauffeuse: "To my thinking, an inexperienced woman cannot do better than become a driver of a commercial van at first...."
QIGN of more joyous times for the motor trade—that's the significance of the "F" in this registration.
For the reason, cast your mind back to last year and the trade's representations to the MoT on the registration lark. The letter denoting registration year, cried the trade, was aggravating the usual autumn-end-of-year sales slide. Buyers wanted the benefit of a full year's registration letter.
The MoT agreed to make the letter change at the beginning of this month instead. So vehicles registered in 1967 will have both E and F.
. . . Marks the Spot
And the effect? "Dramatic," say dealers like Ben Thomson, managing director of London's Brew Bros. Ltd. "By August 3 we had sold our target quota for the whole month at our Brompton Road premises. And sales at all but one of our other branches have been unusually buoyant for this time of year.
"Some buyers said they had been holding on to their vehicles because of the squeeze—but had held on far enough. For 1966registered vehicles, though they may be less than a year old, are now trailing alphabetically two letters behind the F registration."
Chief Inspector A. R. Clarke of Stourport sub-division, Worcestershire Constabulary, presenting safe driving awards for 1966 to tanker drivers from Regent Oil Company's Stourport depot. A total of 43 drivers qualified for the awards, which are made by RoSPA on the basis of a year's driving free of blameworthy accident. The ceremony took place at the Brinton Arms.