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17th May 1974, Page 49
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

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Could you say what controls the temperature of a diesel engine? Or how many times a spin-off oil filter can be cleaned? Or what BS AU14 IA refers to? Or what an '0' stamped on a nut means?

If you could answer these questions, and a few others like them perhaps you could have won £1,000 cash and become Perkins Diesel Mechanic of the Year.

I, for one, felt they were relatively easy for what was the final of a nation-wide competition held by Perkins last week. Yet, none of the five finalists gave a convincing show of knowledge in answering.

The winner — after a tie-breaker question — was 25-year old Noel McAlister of Rathcode, Newtonabbey, Northern Ireland, engineer with Sidney Pentland Ltd, of Belfast. He took home £1,000. Second and third men took £400 and £300 respectively, and there was a portable television for the runners-up.

By the way, the answers to the above questions are at the foot of this page.

Notts golf

May 29 should be a big day at Notts Golf Club, when 120 amateurs and 40 professional golfers play a four-ball tournament sponsored by Associated Tyre Specialists Ltd in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute's 150th anniversary. The sponsor is putting up £6,500 in prize money, and some valuable silverware for the amateurs. The revenue for the RNLI will come from the £1 a head gate money, and it is expected that about 5,000 spectators will attend.

With the exception of Tony Jacklin the entire 1973 British Ryder cup team will be playing, plus Peter Alliss, Dai Rees, Dave Thomas, David Jagger, and Vince Baker. Ronald Fletcher, Tony Briton, Noel Murphy, Cliff Michelmore and The Bachelors will be among the amateurs. The golf course is only three miles from M1 at Holinwell. It should be quite a day.

First-class mail

Recognition at last for the transport industry in the commemorative stamp business. We've had the Salvation Army, the Fire Brigade, the Red Cross, Shakespeare, Burns, Churchill — in fact the list of special issues seems to have been endless. But on June 12 transport gets its turn. A set of four stamps depicting the development of overseas mail will be issued and at the same time go on show at an international philatelic exhibition in Basle. There's an 1818 boat, an 1911 aeroplane, a 1937 flying jmn .'dOUVUI -Joltad augua maw :1! amdai nod 'auou !Thnsouidatil azi; ...siantsuy boat, and a 1930 van suspiciously like an Austin.

According to the time it takes some of my mail to reach me, I am sure some of these "transporters" are still in service.

Tragitale

I wonder if you spotted the tragic tale in the Daily Telegraph last week about an American bobby who pulled a lorry driver from his overturned vehicle and in so doing saved his life. The policeman was commended for his action. That was last year.

Twelve months later, while the same policeman was speaking to a motorist, whom he had pulled in at the roadside, a passing lorry got too close, struck the policeman, and failed to stop. The policeman died as

Guarding buses

It's enough to make a drill sergeant bust a gut. The GLC is to put in an against-the-flow bus lane in Buckingham Palace Road; thus reducing a section of it to a width of 30 ft, and that's the section over which the Guards march when they are parading to Buckingham Palace from Chelsea Barracks. And 30 ft just isn't enough, if cars are parked by the roadside, to allow the Guards to march six abreast.

Tom Ponsonby, chairman of the GLC's central area board, said last week: "We are sorry to be nasty to the Guards but their loss will be the travelling public's gain."

That's only true, of course, if you happen to be travelling on a bus. What if the nasty old drill sergeant decides to parade his troops three abreast and make the column twice as long? That could cause a nasty snarlup for delivery vehicles, cars and taxis, between Grovenor Gardens and Semely Place, where the kerbprotected bus lane has to be.

The GLC must be sure it's going to work since they're spending £98,580 of the ratepayers' money on the project.

Well, do you?

A lady of St Albans has a novel view of transport. She writes: Tanking along in your great lorry You do not see the pink cloud above you Hear the rooks noisily returning home Feel the cold wind in your ears Or look as stupid as I do on my bike. She knows best!

by the Hawk


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