Anti-Teddy Apprentices
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ATEAM of 10 Vauxhall Motors apprentices are to run (yes RUN) from John o' Groats to Land's End in six days, starting on July 9. Why, 1 asked, are they going to undertake this marathon journey non-stop, running in relays?
To prove that "not all teenagers are Teddy boys," was the answer. The relay is also being undertaken to raise money for spastics. It will be known as "Operation Footpad."
Incidentally, I gather that these keen Vauxhall lads have already raised almost £750 for spastics this year. Jolly good luck to them. Stand up the boy who said he always knew Bedfords were good runners!
Flying Busman
QOUTH WALES coach proprietor with his head in the clouds kJ these days is Mr. Glyn Rees, of Nelson, Glam. Mr. Rees, 46, will compete in the King's Cup Air Race at Coventry in July. This premier event in the aero-racing world is only open to the elite of the sport, and Mr. Rees, who is a grandfather, qualified by winning the de Havilland Tiger Moth Challenge Trophy Race in the International Welsh Air Rally at Rhoose Airport, Cardiff, recently—a fine achievement for one who has been flying for only four years.
Although Mr. Rees was in the R.A.F. during the war (he won the George Medal for bravery), he was not a pilot. They A30 wouldn't let me fly, considering me too old at 26," he said wryly, adding with a grin: "It was the frustration I suffered during the war which made me want to fly."
Mr. Rees is managing director of East Glamorgan Motors, Ltd., a concern he took over six years ago.
Wassat ?
OVERHEARD this week from a haulier: "Merchandise 1,–/Transport case—what one's that?" Obviously a man with a very short memory.
Fast Work
TrTHINGS are certainly humming in the department of vehicle I design. In this issue we are carrying an exclusive report about a 24-ton gross Foden which averaged 60 m.p.h. on prolonged motorway operation, with a fuel consumption approaching double figures.
Last week we featured another heavy, a maximum-weight E.R.F., which, with a petrol engine, returned 4.7 m.p.g. and a maximum speed of 63 m.p.h., averaging 47 m.p.h. The week before we road-tested the new Leyland Power-Plus heavies— which are themselves no sluggards.
It looks as if we're getting the vehicles, but where are the motorways to go with them?
Getting Together
WAS intrigued to learn, the other day, how our salesmen had fared with the Soviet citizens at the recent Moscow Trade Fair. One man who told his tale was Mr. D. Boxall, general manager of Nightingale Engineering Co., Ltd., of London, who demonstrated an Atkinson-York artic.
He was received most cordially, he says, together with Mr. P. Burgess, of Atkinson Vehicles, Ltd. The Russians displayed a keen bargaining sense, he added, and all the while displayed the utmost friendliness.
All Aboard!
C TRIKING a rather sombre note is the application, for a B-licensed van, from a funeral director and florist. He wants his van for "General goods Great Britain,"