All dressed up and nowhere to go
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LONDON TRANSPORT Museum has been brought to life by 14 students from Liverpool's Mabel Fletcher College theatre wardrobe department. They have produced costumes for eight models that mirror notable periods in the history of passenger transport in the capital.
A 1950s Teddy-boy and his girl friend are being questioned by a Tube ticket inspector. An elegant couple take their seats on London's first horse bus in the early 19th century. Two shoppers sit in the "Ladies Only" compartment of a 1930s Metropolitan railway coach, and a wartime clippie displays an authentic 1942 uniform.
All that is missing is a fur-clad waxwork of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the world explorer, receiving the first of London Transport's new London Explorer tickets for bus and Underground travel. They offer visitors the chance of shooting polar bears north of Barnet.
AN ICELANDIC firm is reported to be using cod liver oil as fuel in two diesel-engined lorries, it is expected to prevent respiratory troubles and coughing and spitting in cold weather.