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Frustration
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ird's Eye View
THY should it take two months to obtain authority to V exchange a vehicle under a contract-A licence? A wellablished haulier in the South Eastern Area complains bitterly It he insured and taxed a new articulated outfit on January I d nine weeks later he was still waiting for the contract-A intity certificate.
He has been threatened with prosecution if he operates with the disc. Meanwhile, he is apparently expected to appoint his customer and waste the money spent on insurance d taxation. Even the influenza epidemic can hardly explain s delay.
low Leak
IUNLOP'S are, I hear, shortly going into production with
• commercial-vehicle tyres incorporating "rigid breaker nstruction." This is apparently a highly significant developmt, but your guess as to what it means is as good as mine. inlop's won't talk.
ager Off
, 3-TON block of ice packed in glass-wool should by now k be nearing its destination, Lambarene in French Equatorial 'rica. on a Scania-Vabis open lorry. It began its three-week irney from the Svartisen glacier in Arctic Norway on bruary 22—a stunt promoted by the glass-wool manufacturers eight European countries to prove the insulating qualities the material.
Radio Luxembourg, who put up the idea. originally offered pay the driver a large sum for every pound of ice remaining ten the lorry arrived at Lambarene, but backed out when the iss-wool manufacturers told them that the wager would ruin radio station.
ions of St. Mark
thanking the Mayor of Lincoln. ClIr. L. H. Priestid, for his formal opening of the Lincolnshire Road Car Company's w bus station at St. Mark Street. Lincoln, Mr. J. S. Gavin. te of the directors, expressed the need for municipal and mpany undertakings to get closer together. In this case. the mpany have suited the action to the word: their fine new emises are directly opposite the municipal depot.
On the eve of the ceremony it appeared that the pall of iustrial strife might interfere with the proceedings. Members
By The Ilawk
of the National Union of Railwaymen had threatened strike action because, they claimed, the management had refused to discuss questions arising since the new station had come into use. The general manager, Mr. R. F. Bashrod, took the view that there was nothing in the claims which could not be resolved at a meeting. Reasonably enough, both sides agreed to discussions after the station was declared open.
Wreckers
II looks as though a team of vigilantes is needed not only to I protect vehicles and their loads from theft, but from malicious damage as well. Lorries belonging to Mr. Wilfrid Wright, of Marehay, Derbyshire, a member of the East Midland Area of the Road Haulage Association, and to other hauliers have been systematically damaged on Mr. Wright's parking ground.
Nuts and bolts have been loosened, wheels partly unscrewed. engines tampered with, fuel tanks holed, tyres deflated, brake fluid drained, door handles smashed and matches dropped into fuel tanks. This sabotage is thought to be the work of a local gang. It is a great pity that birthing was ever abandoned.
Feet Across the Sea
NTERNATIONAL relations in road haulage will be I strengthened by a football match which is planned to be played between Mr. Brain G. Smits' West-Friesland-Belge, and Mr. R. B. Brittain's Essex Carriers, Ltd. The match is due to take place in Belgium, possibly on Good Friday if Mr. Smits' eleven can be spared that day, which is not a public holiday in Belgium.
As I trizntioned on November 28, 1958, Mr. Smits, one of the leading European hauliers, is a former international hockey player for Holland, and an all-round sportsman. All his employees are encouraged to take an interest in sport.
As You Were
ASCOTTISH speaker at a dinner last week was extolling the virtues of the Scots. Britain had, he said, a Scottish Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, and a Scottish Minister of Transport. Mr. lain Macleod. I wondered whether a secret re-shuffle had taken place in the Government. but when I met Mr. Harold Watkinson later in the week I was assured that be had not traded-in his by-passes and brickbats for Mr. Macleod's shop stewards and strikes.