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16th October 1964
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By The Hawk

;raftsmanship Record There is, I am sure, going to

m a great demand for the fascinating little book which F. H. Jennings and Son Ltd., Sandbach, Cheshire, have just mblished in celebration of the family's 200 years of coachmilding. Entitled "Two Centuries of Craftsmanship ", it races the history of the family from a small wheelwright's hop in Little Warford to the present well-known bodyminding business.

To me the greatest fascination lies in the techniques of he old days, illustrated along with a whole series of rehicles, horse-drawn and mechanically propelled. I paricularly like, among the later examples, the Jennings Went Tipper body, advertised as " 155 under one ton !omplete ".

tare Tribute When congratulatingthem

elves on the prompt delivery they offer retailers, nanufacturers rarely mention the carriers who help to nake the service possible. Too much is taken for granted, aid hauliers are, in rny opinion, often a bit slow in shouting heir own virtues So I'm only too happy to report excepions which prove the rule. In this case, Lloyd Menswear, vho, in a recent issue of their retailer journal, paid tribute o Tartan Arrow's parcels service by saying that it gave tockists in Scotland as good a service as if the manufacurer himself were North of the Border.

In fact Tartan Arrow—only one of the public carriers ised by Lloyd—gives a London-Glasgow delivery service A around 20 hours. Fleet as an arrow, you might say.

Beating the Bank They have fast firemen at

Finchley. Flow do I know that? Well, Simms Motor Units' fire brigade has been doing its stuff again in the London Private Fire Brigades annual competition and has his year recaptured the chamnionship which it last held n 1961. This very brisk brigade took the coveted French ihield, its aggregate time of 135.4 sec. for all the drills mating by only 14 sec. the Midland Bank Executor and frustee brigade. Which just goes to show how varied are he entrants in this competition—there were 10 taking part his year. Put your money in the bank but your money m Simms, eh?

iang Your Heads!

A a significant fact that has nternational. They've been ourses this month and Niorwegian, Belgian and Talking of fires reminds me come my way from Nu-swift holding one of their training have had Dutch, Swedish, Irish extinguisher servicing engineers at the school. But (wait for it) they haven't needed an interpreter because all the trainees understand English. Which gives "The Hawk" a chance to have another loud thump on his tub about how insular we are in this country. Common Market or not, we've got to think (and speak) internationally these days.

Richard Not Ronald • Troubles never come singly; nor, it seems, do those toe-curling mistakes in black and white which journalists dread. This is penitents' corner this week. First for the red-faced colleague who called British Railways' liner trains manager Ronald W. Jackson last week in " Heading the New State Challenee ", when it should have been Richard W. Jackson; secondly for the remark in the same article that Mr. Trevor H. Thornton went from Pickfords to British Railways .at Leeds--when it should have been British Waterways. Em not sure who perpetrated that one, but knowing the " quiet-voiced• Northumbrian " and the " ebullient Irishman" I'm sure they'll both accept the apologies offered here.


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