Telling the world and the Chancellor
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SOME YEARS ago the Road Haulage Association producer series of posters for display or members' vehicles to show th approximate amounts of tax paid annually on them. Unfortunately, like most of the things that the committee triet to do for members, the idea fe flat, either through apathy or some irrational fear of reprisal by persons unknown.
Len Bassett, the prominent Potteries haulier, is made of tougher stuff; he has the courage of his convictions. He emblazoned the whole of a 32. tonne artic with the statement that the annual excise duty on was now £2,519, or 57 per ceni more than a year ago.
Then he took it around to a pub where the Chancellor of th Exchequer was addressing To party workers and rubbed Sir Geoffrey Howe's nose in it.
FOUR of the nine staff changir rooms in Scania's new gearbo and rear-axle gear assembly shop at Sodertalje can be converted into air-raid shelter: in less than 48 hours. The ener will, of course, do the decent thing and give two days' notic of bombardment.