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• Bright sparks
When I visited Motec 1 at High Ercall soon after it opened one of the things which most impressed me was the auto-electricians course—filling a long-felt want, as the cliche has it. So it comes as no surprise at all to me to learn that in the results of the City and Guilds motor vehicle electricians course (no. 169) the 16 Motec-trained entrants have all passed—with 14 credits and two distinctions. Not bad going. In the three courses so far held, 45 of the 46 Motec entrants have passed, with a grand total of 14 distinctions, 30 credits and one national silver medal.
This Motec course has now been extended to 32 weeks and has become fully integrated, covering stage II and III. It really is extremely popular—the October course is already fully booked, but there's time to get applications in for April 1972! Walk up, and smartly.
II 100-hour week?
k 62-hour week agreement made recently by he TGWU and a coach firm prompted a )us driver to write to the union's journal Record, hinting that this was nothing to write tome about. Why such long hours? he mplied. Why not turn the union's big guns m to coach firms and drivers to reduce hours worked?
John Stevens, TGWU's coach organizer, ,ays there are a large number of non-union :oach drivers "who are working for no hours whatsoever, or any pay related to hours whatsoever. In other words, most noninionists are working twice as many hours or even less money." So it seems that in the coach industry a 12-hour agreement is something of which the 7GWU can feel proud. Can Mr Stevens eally be right in hinting that drivers at some ion-union coach firms exceed 100 hours a reek? In 1971?
I Fishy t must have seemed a bit like carrying coals o Newcastle transporting 1000 gallons of rater to Manchester, However, this time it vas not water from the heavens but from the ea at Blackpool and the tanker division of Iargreaves Transport, part of the Smith and tobinson Group, accepted the commission D transfer this amount from the famous easide resort to Manchester for the owner f a new restaurant who needed the fresh rifle to fill the specially designed tanks. The seafood restaurant in South King ,treet will be "home" for dozens of lobsters nd exotic tropical fish. As the seawater was umped from the tanker, Mr Anthony Simm, ie owner, told CM that he had been a bit uzzled at first about how to get the seawater arried from Blackpool but then realized that
haulage company was the answer. Hargreaves Transport were only too pleased to oblige and quoted a price which Mr Simm says was extremely reasonable.
The seawater tanks are the focal point of the restaurant and customers coming in after the opening on October 1 will be able to select a lobster from the tank and watch as a chef catches it for him.
Mr Simms says it will now only be necessary to "top up" occasionally because special pumps and filters keep it clean. He is sure, however, that when this is necessary he will call in Hargreaves Transport.