By The Hawk
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tax. And Mr. Lamborn caught the sympathy of such a C-licensed meeting when he claimed that, notwithstanding his sex, Mr. Marples had given birth to more regulations in the past year alone than all his predecessors had ever done.
Undaunted
NOTHING, it would seem, daunts a haulier. At least, it doesn't seem to daunt E. J., Cooper, a Workington remover and haulier. He tells me he was recently asked to provide a van to convey a seriously injured patient from Workington Infirmary to an artificial kidney unit in Newcastle. The patient had to be moved in his bed and accompanied by a mass of medical equipment—hence no use for an ambulance.
Mr. Cooper supplied a 1,500-cu.-ft. Commer pantechnicon. The bed was lashed to the sides and floor. Communication between the nurses and the van driver was established by passing a length of webbing through a hole bored in the van floor and then through the cab window. The van travelled with headlamps full on, so as to warn other traffic and so avoid unnecessary braking, since the patient could not be disturbed.
That is what I call service!
Some Mileage!
OWS this? I heard this. week of London haulier James Cockle, who says he has just completed 100,114 miles in the first year's service of a Mercedes-Benz 7-tonner. His Firestone tyres, it is claimed, lasted 80,000 miles (front) and 98,000 (rear).