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Ex Coach Driver is L.D.O.Y.
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• . and he started driving goods vehicles only 9 months ago
OW do you become Lorry Driver of the Year? "Hard work and practice," 1964 winner Mr. J. Gunn told me. He could, think, have added more. A modest, 32-year,old Scot, he is an ex-coach driver and only began driving goods vehicles for his present employers, Wolsey Ltd., of Leicester, nine months ago. He lifted the top award and the Class C award, plus a great deal of assorted tinware and prizes, at Bramcote, near Nuneaton, on Sunday.
Previously Gunn had driven public service vehicles for Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., Ribble Motor -Services Ltd. and Provincial Garage (Leicester) Ltd. He
won the Class C award with ease, scoring the lowest penalties of the day--134. This, incidentally, despite the fact that T. E. Lewis (1963 Class winner) and J. C. Martindale (1962 Class winner and . 1963 runner-up) were again competing in Class C. In fact, Lewis, with 193 points, was second and Martindale (233 points) third.
Triumph for Mr. Weaver • In a way this was quite a triumph for Wolsey transport manager, Mr. J. Weaver. Three years ago he told his
drivers: We're going to enter the Lorry Driver of the Yea,r competition and we'll win it in three years' time." A rash statement? Perhaps, but he was right—and that justifies anything!
What of the contest itself? The weather was fine and the wide open spaces of Bramcote (formerly an airfield) gave ample room for competitors and some 6-700 members of the public. Using duplicated tests enabled clerkof-the-course Gerry Aston to whistle the record (238) number of finalists through in record (before 3 p.m.) time.
Unfortunately, the final itself was not spectacular. The four test sites for the L.D.O.Y. run-off were around two sides of a hangar and nobody was therefore able to see each finalist go through all the obstacles, as has been