Buses held up by bandits
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WILL their Lordships decimate the Employment Bill? Let's hope not but of course it does not cater for every eventuality.
United Counties bus passengers in Luton were without services for a •couple of hours while weak-kneed busmen discussed the temptation placed in their way by onearmed bandits in the canteen. Revenue from these machines subsidises meals.
The workers held an emergency meeting and demanded the removal of the baneful devices in which they could not resist the temptation to squander their pay. They would rather pay higher prices for their food than worship the calf of gold. A virtuous sentiment, no doubt, but why the public should be made to suffer for it I do not know.
Meanwhile, Williams Amusements, of Holley, Surrey, having sold their soul to Mephistophiles, are spending about £4000 on a Pye mobile two-way radio system so that maintenance teams can be rushed to clubs, pubs and other places where the maddening clatter of their one-armed bandits has mercifully, but alas only temporarily, ceased.