'What's it got that a camel hasn't?'
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THOSE BROUGHT up on the legend of Lawrence of Arabia will find it hard to imagine a motor show in Jeddah. Contemptuous ships of the desert curled their lips, exposing evil yellow teeth, at the 100-ton low-loader exhibited there by Craven Tasker.
"It features six oscillating axles which have full mechanical compensation between each other to give low ground pressure," Horace (Humpy) Camel sneered. "And heavyduty landing legs have been fitted with sand pads for off-road application, it says here."
"So what?" said his wife, Mabel, scornfully. "I've got the best compensated oscillating heavy-duty legs in the business and you never saw finer sand pads without all that clobber."
"And what's a gooseneck doing in the desert?" Humpy exploded. "We've had camel necks for thousands of years and if they were good enough for the pharoahs, they're good enough for these cowboys here."
"Goosey goosey gander, where do you wander, Oman, Kuwait, and in the harem's chamber — and Allah help you if the Sheik catches you," chortled Mabel.
CHRISTMAS CRACKER conundrum: What simultaneously runs down 32 nuts and bolts in seven seconds?
No, not a hit-and-run juggernaut driver in a mental hospital. It's a new machine at the Perkins Engines plant at Peterborough.