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Bird's Eye
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iewBY THE HAWK
A Tour de Force for TRTA First to Join
THE first Ford operator to join the recently announced Ford "24 Club" is, I understand, Birmingham haulage contractor, L. E. Bayliss, managing director of Ernest Transport Ltd., of Hay Mills.
Members of the club can take advantage of a round-the-clock truck repair service at any one of 150 garages in Britain. Membership, which is free, is open to all Ford and mixed fleet operators.
Not So Permanent Way
Ar Leeds Licensing Court, British Railways objected to the grant of a B licence to a farmer on the grounds that they were at the moment providing a service from the local railway siding and, in fact, there were local farmers using the service.
What was not pointed out was that the local railway siding is shortly to close. Perhaps no one had told the railway representative. Still, he knows now—and so do the local farmers!
Quite a Change
MHERE is trouble ahead for the Metropolitan LA—at least it would seem so after reading Applications and Decisions No. 1231 published last week. The Transport Holding Company (Pickfords Ltd.) has applied to vary an A licence by replacing one van at 2 tons 19 cwt. with one van at 45 tons.
They will never get away with it!
It's Traditional
OALS to Newcastle" is the oft-repeated saying to indicate superfluous transport movement. The new version is now "Fridges to Lapland".
Coming nearer home a colleague writing a feature on a well known meat transporter operating a nightly trunk run between two major ports enquired about the return loads factor. "One hundred per cent," was the reply.
Then how was contamination avoided with the next outward meat load?
"Quite easily—the return load is also meat."
A different type of meat possibly?
"No—virtually identical."
Why move it at all?
"It's traditional," was the final terse retort.
And with 100 per cent productivity, who is complaining.
'THE 1RU conference in London last week was an organizational
triumph for the headquarters staff of TRTA. Praise for the assiduous work of Hugh Featherstone, Reg Brown and John Gutteridge was unstinted; and K. C. Turner's imperturbable chairmanship could not be faulted.
Specially noteworthy was the translation system, and the neat amplifying device, which enabled delegates to select English, French or German, worked very efficiently. It was, alas, Italian made.
The only time the attractive translators were caught out was when a Japanese delegate, Mr. R. Tagushi, whose speech had been translated into English earlier, ad libbed for a few moments at the end of his prepared speech. None of the girls could understand Japanese! Incidentally, Mr. Tagushi's speech was several yards long, although quickly delivered. A long speech in Japanese, I surmise, would need a pantechnicon to hold the lengthy rolls of paper!
Lucky Recruit
y AST September, York Trailers started a drivers' school course designed to teach drivers used only to handling rigid vehicles to graduate to attics. Since that time no fewer than 100 drivers have benefited from the school's expert tuition.
The hundredth recruit turned out to be Charlie Calvert, from United Biscuits' Leeds depot—a lucky man, since he received a special presentation to mark the event.
An interesting point about these two-day courses is that only two drivers attend at any one time. This ensures that every man receives individual attention.