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Peter Lane Transport ied its Portbury headquarters into an gallery for two evenings and raised 0 for the National Society for the vention of Cruelty to Children. ustomers, suppliers and employees -e invited to view and purchase more
150 paintings provided by Peter rbs of Sinclair Galleries. The art flings were the brainchild of naging director Peter Lane, who said: e thought it would be nice to try lething a little different."
percentage of the purchase price of h painting went to the charity and er Lane topped the takings up to knd Hampshire Bus, in
nmemoration of the start of its libus service in the Hythe area, has sewed a cheque for the purchase of 3 beds for the maternity wing of the Hospital. Five pence was donated m each ticket bought for the first en days of the launch.
['raffle manager David Humphrey d: "This represents over 7,500 senger journeys within the first seven is of the service. Hampshire Bus are ased to respond to this warm Iconic by the community through s donation."
r0 PROVE that we don't have closed minds on the subject of tnsport, we hired a Pullman coach on itish Rail's Manchester-to-London rvice the other day. This allowed us,
we thought, the opportunity to transport our VIP guests around the usual morning rush-hour jams on the M6 and MI, and to deliver them fresh and champagne-breakfasted, ready for sonic hard work, in central London.
Everything worked tine — apart from the fact that a combination of errant JCBs and ice (yes, on the points . . .) meant that our train arrived at Euston no less than 90 minutes late. So it would have been quicker by coach (we did use an excellent Berryhurst coach to get to our final destination) and, what's more, had we done so the Hawk would have been spared the embarrassment of having to concede to Leyland's Gavin Barlass that, yes, just occasionally, even CM's plans go astray
ATTENTION on the Ml: keep well to the left. Sales reps and the rest of this country's company car drivers are going to he issued with faster cars.
This forecast comes from contract hire company Interleasing (UK) in its latest report on fleet car comparisons. It says that many fleet operators arc deciding to "take the big-mileage driver out of the traditionally-sized L spec fleet car and put him in a higher-performance, higher-spec smaller car." What's more, the likely changes in the car tax threshold from 1.3 to 1.4 litres and from 1.8 to two litres will also put more performance under the driver's right foot. Unless your car can cruise at 145km/h (90mph) it hardly seems worth venturing onto the motorway these days.
• by the Hawk
FAIR'S fair. Having published a photograph in our February 8 issue showing a distressed Freight Transport Association man pointing to the lack of GLC lorry ban signing off the A4 in West London, my colleagues want to bring things up to date.
The lorry ban sign is now in place, along with the Belisha beacon, signposting on to the South Circular and an enigmatic sign to "The Wes", whoever he may be . . .