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Oil men strike it rich
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DRIVING home from the Liverpool eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition last Sunday the team from the Paraffin Distributing Co. Ltd., Kirkby, carried with them half a dozen trophies. Three members, F. Harrison, J. C. Kendrick and R. Doran were the winners respectively of Class B, Class C and Class D.
Harrison received the reward for the best performance of the day, also for the best performance by any driver from his company; and they won the team prize-a repeat of last year.
The total team penalties were only 80+ points, a remarkably low figure. Of that total, 21 were attributable to Harrison, 29 to Kendrick and 30+ to Doran.
In his class Harrison was far ahead of the runner-up, J. Frith, Broadhurst and Co. (Gadbrook) Ltd., whose debit was 100+. Both the other two drivers of Paraffin Distributing led their respective classes by substantial margins. Harrison came through clear on the Highway Code, lost only five on the road, 10 on the first test, one on the width judging and five on backing into the garage. Kendrick, twice previously the winner of this round, was clear on the Highway Code, lost 10 on the road, 12 on the kerb test, two on width judging and five on the third test.
Repeat success
Class E(1) winner was V. Whiteside, Johnson Bros. (Dyers) Ltd., BMC, who repeated his last year's success in a particularly close finish in which he beat his team mate, R. B. McWatt, BMC, by only 1+ points.
Congestion and traffic flow at Speke was eased by a parking plan introduced by the clerk of the course. A team of .officials arrived at dawn to place numbered cones at individual parking spaces so that each driver merely had to pull up at his reserved number.
The 133 competitors completed the road circuit by 10.30 a.m. and the last vehicle went through the driving test just after 3 p.m. so that shortly after 4 o'clock the Lord Mayor, Alderman Herbert Allen, was able to present the awards in the main canteen of the Dunlop factory.
Parking trouble
In general all the manoeuvres were well within the capabilities of the drivers although parking, in particular, caused some concern to the tanker men and Dunlop's horticultural team was sad to find tyre ridges in some of the lawn embankments later. There were inevitable criticisms—in this case of the loading bay test. This in the event proved well within the average capabilities, even for the articulated vehicles. Test 2, width judgment, caused very much less trouble than had often been the case, the penalty marks here being low, particularly among the lighter vehicles.
E. Piguey. Thos. Scott and Sons (Bakers) Ltd., Ford, a class winner in the two previous years, was down to second in Class C, but carried off the award given for the best driver of a flour or confectionery vehicle.
Drivers' skill praised
Presenting the awards the Lord Mayor spoke of many roads being "tracks invented for the pack horse". Praising the commercial driver's skill, he recognized the fact they had to contend with "fools who think that just because they are on the motorway their cars drive themselves".