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E National Bus Co's decision ibandon the 24-hour clock is a all blow for Britain against eign oppression. How many :lel calamities has the beastly already caused?
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• under the clock at Victoria rtion at, say, 17.00 hours. That alculated to put the mockers the date from the start. )ectantly he turns up just 'ore 5pm. The girl, smiling Ittily, arrives to a decidedly sty reception and a wilting ich of flowers at 7pm. End of nance.
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you ate it, truck brought it
TER THOMPSON, viceiirman of the National Freight , is not wasting his experience he food industry. He is noted cooking splendid mixed grills breakfast — of all meals — at 3mote cottage in Wales where and senior colleagues spend weekend twice a year. _ynton McLain, writing in the lancial Times, says that each -dor manager brings his own .ciality food. Ron Fortune, inaging director of North stern British Road Services, ngs a huge salmon. Steve el, formerly his opposite mber at Midlands BRS and w Roadline group managing ector, prepares it, and Brian yward, group managing ector of National Carriers, 3ks and serves it. Jack Mather, inaging director of NFC's ecial Traffics Group is sauce af. He makes a mustard and iyonnaise sauce.
f Peter is looking for a boiled g chef I shall be happy to lige. I could also lay the Cain d Abel. ALTHOUGH DAF Trucks (GB) has a labour relations record as good as the best in the industry, Phil Ives, the eminently approachable managing director, tells me the "tea-break content" of the working day is the lowest and is unpaid.
"And then the staff drink coffee," he adds.
Every picture tells a story
EXHIBITING commendable optimism over its future, the Manpower Services Commission has used a picture of the Titanic in its 1982 calendar.
London Transport could, I suppose, do worse than reproduce the famous painting of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The courageous National Freight Consortium might find an echo in the Charge of the Light Brigade. And what more appropriate for ASLEF than the famous work by Jacques David, Napoleon's court painter, The Rape of the Sabine Women?
A DRIVER'S prison sentence was reduced on appeal from nine to six months to allow him to look after his cacti. His home address was Liberty Hill.
Uses for surplus containers . . .
HOW can an amateur football club secure a vandal-proof changing room for £250? By buying a surplus freight container, which an Essex club chairman says is ideal for the purpose. At that price at least 4,000 could be bought for the transfer fee of a popular professional player.
These, preferably refrigerated, would also make useful lock-ups for hooligans at football matches, who could be delivered directly to the police • station untouched by human hand, but assisted, one hopes, by human foot.
Courts still have a human face
SHEILA TRACY, who conducts Truckers' Hour on Radio 2 from lam until 2am five nights a week, first adopted the soubriquet, Tiger Tim, when she was a trombonist with Ivy Benson's band 25 years ago. It is difficult to reconcile that warm, teasing voice with several feet of polished gas pipe or a 16-yearold son but the Yorkshire Post assures me she has both.
She believes citizens' band radio will do much to promote the programme and she would like to extend it. She also thinks there is need for more "trucking music." Who will be the first lorry driver, charged with speeding, to plead successfully that he was listening to Tiger Rag at the time?
After all, Bewdley magistrates and the High Court upheld a West Midland driver's claim that on the stretch of road in question his old lorry could not reach the 40mph recorded by a computerised meter. The courts are still human.