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THE best laid schemes o' mice and men. . . . The motor industry is as liable to things "ganging aft a-gley " as anyone—if not more so, in fact, particularly when it comes to such things as Continental motor shows. Take the Turin Show earlier this month, for instance. Before the Show opened Jaguar pushed the boat out to introduce their new Mark X. Hundreds of people were invited to a sumptuous reception, with private buses laid on to and from the scene of the unveiling.
Unfortunately, there was one thing missing: the Mark X. A 24-hour strike by the Customs authorities at the FrenchItalian border was responsible.
Rovers fared as badly, too. On the morning of the opening day there were no Land-Rovers to be seen at the Show (and four were scheduled to be there, although the stand inside the exhibition could only have held one), whilst the Land-Rover that was on display still bore GB plates to betray the fact that it wasn't exactly an un-run show model, but a stop-gap hurriedly wrested from a company official in lieu of the exhibit which still hadn't turned up.
Air Competition
Pr HERE have been a lot of applications recently to run internal air services between British towns in competition with existing road and rail services—and very attractively priced some of these services are nowadays! Air travel isn't all milk and honey yet by a long chalk though. There is the difficulty of getting to some air terminals and airports, the time spent A32
hanging around like a lot of sheep while waiting for a 11 (which seems likely to be delayed these days, whatever weather), the uncalled-for lack of civility from some of airline employees and, in the case of overseas flights London Airport (Heathrow), the shocking delays enta in passing through Customs.
At any rate it's to be hoped that nobody ever designs a or coach station quite as inadequate as London Airport is its traffic.
Nearly Self-su
"T DON'T know what to say," said the applicant—and I he went on to say far too much. At the Metropolitan ct the other day, the applicant very nearly failed to secure a g for an unopposed application to carry waste from R.A.F. car He told Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan Deg Licensing Authority, that a Ministry officer had been to him. The officer had suggested that it would be better him not to continue doing the work without the sanction carrier's licence.
"And then what did you do?" asked Mr. Macdonald—N some concern, I thought.
"Well, I could not give up doing the work because the should have broken my contract to do it, and if I had contract you wouldn't give me a licence to do it anyhow."
"Don't do it again," said Mr. Macdonald, "I'm no rubber stamp for licences." All the same, he gave him much as he needed.
ned Timetables
ESEWORTHY example to other operators is set by Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., and Hull Corporay have co-operated in the production of a new timeaining full details of all their co-ordinated services :t includes lists of departure times on routes partially East Yorkshire services extending some distance e area of co-ordination.
vices themselves have been co-ordinated for some 27 'bile it may, therefore, be said that the combined has not come too soon, there arc many other areas attempt is made to publicize, in one booklet, all the .ailable. The lack of information of this kind can be icient to discourage potential passengers, and in the non-regular customer.