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Good Deed Well Done
ON another page of this issue is a picture of a smart, green Commer van, which—as we reported—was last week pre sented to the WN.S. " on Wheels" service by Exeter sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. But behind the delightful ceremony when the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, handed over the keys of the van to the Mayor of Exeter, is quite a story of perseverance on behalf of the sub-area (who are far from being the wealthiest in the land).
I am sure nobody concerned with this fine deed will mind if I single out, in particular, Mr. A. B. Burgoyne (Budleigh Transport, Exeter). He thought of the idea and—despite several set-backs—just would not ,let up until he got • his van. Congratulations to Mr. Burgoyne and all his haulier friends.
Schoolboy Revolt
THE news that the Road Haulage Association is advising its express carriage group, from February 1, to discontinue carriage forward traffic, will cause the greatest embarrassment to schoolboys and will do much to stimulate ,revolt at their pocket money pause. When everything could be sent home ... old books, old clothes, laundry, empty tuck boxes, acquired
trophies and end of term luggage . . all C.F., sometimes filially known as O.O.M. (on the old man), it just enabled the P.M. to eke out but now... .
Hence, of course, the Schoolboys' Union and the go even slower threat.
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False Ect I SN'T it about time some of our larger bus compan
of anti-freeze? I heard of one moderate-sized ga had three burst radiators in one day during the re spell, due to the bottom tanks freezing while the vehi in motion. The labour costs of nightly draining anc must be considerable.
One driver was overheard to say that he proposed the engine ticking over during the 10 minutes spent trip at an exposed out-of-town terminus. While this wise in the circumstances it must have had an at effect on fuel consumption returns.
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=3' round his loft the othei day, a young man 1 ne across a box full of model lorries that he had En kits about 15 years ago, and these made me had happened to the firm who had produced these npany'S name was, so far as I remember, Wilson's with head offices at Bracknell, Berkshire, but London also. The man who originally developed 4r. D. Murray Wilson.
types of lorry, were represented—four-, sixand also articulated outfits—and they were all ol jobs to a scale of 4 mm. There was also a for a Foden double-deck bus to a larger scale. remembers being fascinated by these kits and pocket money to buy new ones. In fact, I'd go ay that his original interest in commercial vehicles !ession) started with these models. Does anyone present-day equivalent, excluding kits of plastics s which merely need sticking together?
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NiGLY appropriate misquotation was made in a art the other day. After the only case' left in the irrived three-quarters of an hour after the start, Authority, whose name ought to be given, if he loke (but must be omitted in case he didn't), said: is the thief of time."
come to think about it. there is something in it, eepers are the. time wasters of good ones. In the , it was more than true, because the applicant the 12 persons present and concerned with his seen released by the L.A. and gone away.