he Hawk hears from reader Jim Wilkinson of Tyne and
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Wear offering congratulations on the bumper Christmas issue, including the Hawk's seasonal goodie competition.
However, Jim has one tiny gripe—disappointment that the Albion Owners Club and Albion Preservation Trust was not included in our round-up of Truckers' clubs. Let me put that right. This splendid organisation can be contacted by writing to B Lambie, Albion Owners Club, Biggar Museum Trust, Moat Park, Biggar,1VIL12 6DT.
0 his curiously shaped TurboDaily van—with an "extra" high roof conversion at the back— has just been supplied to the English String Orchestra by lveco Ford for transporting its musical
The vehicle, a 35.10 hicube panel van, includes a special racking system as well as its high roof for safe carriage of instruments. The bump is to allow double basses to be carried upright or, perhaps, conductors whose necks have grown very long from years of peering into the back rows of an orchestra in full Flight. The ESO, by the way, was founded in 1890 by William Boughton and numbers among its supporters Yehudi Menuhin, who has been principal guest conductor since 1987.
he Hawk is very fond of shaggy dog stories even when they involve cows with a taste for the good life requiring rescue from luxury swimming pools. Happens all the time doesn't it?
According to National Breakdown the bovine skinny dipper alert occurred when one of its operators, Cuss Car Care of Somerset, received a call from the owner of a large country house. Help, said the caller I have a cow in my swimming pool. Unfazed, and presumably not cussing, Cuss set out with specialist lifting gear to return the breast crawling bovine to terra firma. Once there I hear it recieved the milk of human kindness, including the services of a very large beach towel before
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Osle of Wight haulier Vectis Transport has celebrated 75 years in business with an afternoon of cake n'fizzy at its Newport headquarters. The firm was founded one month after the end of World War One by Leigh Thomas—his son Vivian Leigh Thomas is pictured wielding the cake slice alongside fellow employees and directors.
The company diversified into coastal shipping with a subsidiary, Vectis Shipping Company, and in 1998 established Vectis Roadways to develop long haul throughout the UK. For the past 25 years the group has been owned by the Red Funnel Group based in Southampton and offers warehousing in Newport and Southampton. Long may it run—compared to the Hawk Vectis is still just a babe in arms.