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the Hawk Whiter than white
LDoY Final was certainly the gest, brightest and best attended ever. It lifficult to estimate how many people were re—some said 30,000 but I do know t Sgt Finch of the Junior Leaders Regint which "lives" at Bramcote reckoned re were twice as many people as in 1969. t cars not only filled the car parks but :rflowed onto two football pitches and t of the old airfield runway.
the driver with the cleanest licence in the ole competition was undoubtedly A. rratt of Clugston Transport. Scunthorpe; wife laundered his overalls with his ring licence and hgv licence in the breast :ket!
&rid Bramcote was a special occasion in re than one way for driver A. E. Davies NCL, Worcester he was married on the vious day and the honeymoon had to lude his participation in the contest.
Where's it gone?
looks on the faces of intending Seaspeed ercraft passengers at Dover Priory station , I found recently, a real study.
7he East Kent Road Car Company rates a connecting service from the station he Eastern Docks hovercraft terminal on alf of British Railways, who operate the speed service. In its wisdom, East Kent repainted (seemingly by hand) some old seat AEC/Harrington coaches in BR's t livery to ferry the passengers the three io miles between station and terminal. ['here is insufficient room for passengers I luggage so BR thoughtfully provides a Bedford TK with an open platform body to take the luggage (not the passengers).
The looks occur when the luggage of British and foreign tourists, having been quickly loaded aboard the open TK, is driven off at speed (on this occasion through drizzling rain) to what everyone hopes is the right destination.
Having heard something of BR's freight services I only hope their apprehensions are not justified.
• Victoriana
The squabble about the future site of the national transport museum is becoming elevated out of all proportion, it seems to me, with MPs being lobbied for this or that cause. Far more important is that, wherever it is, the building is worthy of the subject. I wonder how many of the noisy public protagonists have ever been to either Clapham or York museums?
I'm familiar with Clapham because of its fascinating London Transport relics; it has always seemed a pleasant, if slightly grubby, place and my only complaint has been its extraordinary Sunday closing, to which I would ascribe a large part of its financial failure. Yielding to the pleas of a steam-crazy offspring, I recently became familiar with the York museum. It was an eye-opener.
The old locomotives themselves are glorious, and lovingly kept, but the place itself struck me as a sorry sight. A railway staff member defended the appalling old building as being an integral part of the museum—though it adds very little in atmosphere and a great deal in depression. Would he also, I wonder, defend the unmentionable toilets, the extraordinary catering facilities (meals between certain times in the adjoining gloomy-looking Railwaymen's Institute) and the lack of road directions, despite multi-lingual directions for travellers arriving by rail? I'm sure he would approve of the total lack of car parking space, since your true railwayman abhors the road vehicle.
The whole set-up, tucked away in a sadlooking railway yard, is a very poor advertisement for York as the new national centre, but this is fortunately outweighed by the superb contrast of York's own Castle Museum. This includes transport in a wonderfully presented and imaginatively housed display covering many fields.
If York is finally chosen for the national museum I only beg that BR is not allowed to run it.
• Gin and Limehouse
On Wednesday of last week, at Limehouse police station, Det Chief Inspector Alistair Thomson of New Scotland Yard, was telling members of the Vehicle Observer Corps and the RHA's vehicle security committee that the menace of the hijack was receding— "pushed back with every available weapon in our ever-growing arsenal".
Within a few hours East London police were searching for a BRS lorry loaded with 840 cases of gin worth £24,000 hijacked from Violet Road, Limehouse!