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Home (and dry) with the milk
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rr HERE'S no doubt about it: transport managers who know what they are about can get a great deal of useful publicity and honour for their companies from the LDOY competition. Express Dairy proved this conclusively on Sunday. The company had only three entrants-two in Class C and one in Class D-but they secured two class wins, the team award and the champion driver of the day. Quite a milk round, in fact!
It was a day of drama. A week's fine weather changed overnight to heavy rain at the assembly point at Weeton Camp: Plans had been laid for scrutineering to take place in a hangar in the event of rain, but the key was nowhere to be found. It was enough to wipe the smile off the face of Lancashire's most charming policeman and clerk of the course, P.C. Norman Howarth, but good humour won through, the key turned up and scrutineering continued in the dry. But all was not over. Entrant No. 1, Mr. Hazel of Blackpool and Fylde Co-op, was all ready to start the observation route test when his clutch died at the very moment when the flag dropped! Incidentally, most competitors lost only a few marks during the route test but the Highway Code test proved to be more severe and no entrant escaped without penalty.
There was more drama at Queens Terrace, Fleetwood, where the manoeuvring tests were due to take place. This location is, incidentally, a vast improvement on the docks area and the local police are congratulated for allowing the tests to take place on the public road to the obvious enjoyment of several hundred spectators. By the time the delayed competitors had arrived from Weeton, Fleetwood was enjoying a really heavy downpour and, after a brief, demonstration of the ability of the marshals to splash about in the rain, the tests were postponed until after lunch when the sun shone again.
With so much excitement in the morning, it would be pleasant to report that everything went smoothly during the three tests. Alas, it was not to be. Because of a marshal's error, the first three competitors in Class C were allowed 1+ times (instead of II) the length of their vehicles in the kerb-parking test. After an appeal, the national steward, Mr. E. R. Lunn, of Leeds, agreed that the competitors affected would have to re-run that test. This upset the markings and the class winner and runner-up, R. Jennion and Corporal England, found themselves displaced by Express Dairyman Bernard Woods.
It was encouraging for Fleetwood Corporation (whose road safety rallies subcommittee is responsible for the round) that two of its staff should be class winners51-year-old George Miller in Class A and 44-year-old Donald Rickman, repeating his 1965 win in Class E(1).
The number of Fleetwood's entries, 54, although low by national standards, was larger than last year when the round clashed with Wakes Weeks. As the area is predominantly rural and there are not many local firms with large fleets, Midland transport managers anxious to encourage good driving might consider taking advantage of Fleetwood's hospitality next year. J.M.H.