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\f lew BY THE HAWK their gratitude for your ready co-operation and assistance at all times, both to the players and officials, for numerous seasons".
Tom, who has worked with the SW!' for 29 years, is a regular driver on the 77 (Pontlasse to Mumbles) route and does some private hire and day tours work.
Scrap and (Hardly Any) Waste
MEMO to Proler Cohen Ltd., subsidiary of the George Cohen 600 Group Ltd.: Why not take parties of Scrap and Waste Exhibition (Olympia, London, next week) visitors over your Proler scrap processing plant at Willesden, London? Taking shape on 84 acres leased from BR is Britain's first giant Proler scrap vehicle processing factory. By late autumn it will be ready to handle about 1,500 vehicles (mainly cars) a day— pulverizing them into fist-size pieces of clean steel (first-grade scrap). Proler Cohen will pay £6 lOs a ton for old vehicles and other forms of light scrap. BR will take it to the mills daily in 34wagon trains.
And with London's vast scrap heaps suddenly representing MONEY, there will be loads by the thousands for hauliers to the Proler plant. For Proler Cohen will not run a single scrap-hauling vehicle of its own.
Christian Duty
CHRISTIAN drivers should try to improve their skill by reading books on the subject and supplementing this, where possible, by attending a police driving course or taking advanced driving tests. This advice is contained in a booklet published by the Church of Scotland St. Andrew Press.
The booklet, A Christian Code of the Road has been prepared for the Church and Nation committee of the Church of Scotland and is based on reports on road safety presented by the committee to the General Assembly. "It is an essential part of Christian duty that individual church members adopt a high sense of personal responsibility in their conduct on the road", states the booklet.
Angled at pedestrians as well as drivers, the booklet ends on the sober note that, on average, one person is killed every 66 minutes and one person injured every 82 seconds on the roads of Great Britain.
Loitering!
HANDS TRAILERS LTD. driver Mick Edwards, 36, has just driven a Ford D1000 tractive unit coupled to a Hands/ Bonallack TIR chassis-less Weightsaver van 1,100 miles to Poznan in Poland at an average speed of 45 m.p.h. And back again to Letchworth—at an average of 55 m.p.h. (Fuel consumption outwards: 13 m.p.g.; inwards: 11-im.p.g.; oil consumption: 4 pints total.) Yet I hear that he was taken into custody by the Polish police in Poznan for . loitering! Small wonder that Mick was staggered as the nature of the charge was eventually conveyed to him after he had spent two hours in a police station.
Seems Mick had been waiting outside an army barracks for some colleagues from Hawker Siddeley exhibitions' department— the outfit carried exhibits for the International Trade Fair—and the police suspected his motives. The Poles apologized but Mick was rather keen to get back home.
Which probably explains his 10-miles-an-hour speedier return!
Phew!
THE NUMBER of forms in use in the Ministry of Transport at the end of June was 962—Commons answer.