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Floral dance
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Jim Yorath was, as I recall, one of the elite drivers on the Flower Express from Penzance to London. The London and Southern Counties Transport Co captured the flower traffic from the Great Western Railway and beat them hands down.
AEC Mandator and Leyland 8-10-ton four-wheelers with huge petrol engines were engaged on the run and their payload of only about 21/2 tones enabled them to clock up incredible speeds. On a good stretch of road the police could not overtake them.
The journey from Penzance to London was often completed in the unbelievable time of nine hours, which was two or three hours quicker that the GWR could manage. Even much more heavily laden six-wheelers were travelling from Exeter to London in eight hours or less with fresh-killed meat for Smithfield Market.
Drivers were pursued all the way by the police who, by all accounts, were not over-scrupulous in their determination to secure convictions for speeding and worse.