• I have often wondered about people who have love
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affairs with trains, especially of the electric eartherworm variety which lurk beneath our urban streets. My wonderment is reinforced by reading of Mr Duncan Anderson, who queued in the "torrential rain" to be the first person to board a train at the new Palmersville station on the Tyne and Wear Metro. He has, apparently, been present at the opening of every one of the Metro's 44 stations, and even flew back from an Australian holiday for one opening in 1982. Is there a similar dedication, I wonder, amongst the passengers of our bus or coach operators?
• The now defunct Greater London Council's publicity bid had the significant effect, reports Campaign, of breaking down the traditional barriers between the Labour Movement and the advertising industry. I am sure you will want to hear of one of the more entertaining schemes conceived during the last days of the GLC. This was to invite the artist Christo, who likes wrapping buildings up in things, to enmesh County Hall in red tape.
• Glass Glover Distribution is, to use the current vernacular, into a whole new ball game. And as the company is a Doncaster, South Yorkshire company, what could that game be other than cricket?
This is cricket with a difference, though. In fact it is indoor cricket, and it is the latest import from Australia, where 500,000 people are said to take part in weekly competitions at 500 indoor cricket centres across the nation.
The dedicated distribution company Glass Glover is sponsoring the Yorkshire Indoor Cricket Tournament, the first • What gets dogs in a dither, causes fish to fret and gives hampsters the hump?
According to National Freight Consortium remover Pickfords, moving house does. Many years' experience of moving ani round of which got underway at The Yorkshire Indoor Cricket Centre in Sheffield last Sunday.
The event was rounded off with a message from the sponsor — in the form of a display based on its new 6-Pak trailer, built by Tidd Strongbox and designed for multiple grocery distribution. For those interested in keeping scores, it has 66 roll cages divided, on two decks, into six compartments. Tidd and Glass Glover, who are marketing the trailer under a joint company banner, say that it is capable of carrying 70 per cent more produce than other similar trailers.
• The relative manpower costs in the automotive industry vary tremendously around the world. According to Paramins, a subsidiary of Esso Chemicals, if China is used as the base of one then Korea is 10, Japan 60, Europe 60 and the United States is 100.
mals and the combined knowledge of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and the Pet Trade Association have all gone into the latest factsheet Moving with Pets.
As well as advising how to move popular pets, rang • One of the longest journeys to Leyland's 90th Anniversary Reunion will be by this vehicle. It is a 1958 Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster bodied by Workspoor of Amsterdam, and it will be making the journey to Leyland Vehicles' Technical Centre at Moss Side, Leyland from its home in the Netherlands — at the Stichting Westlandisch Streekbus Museum — accompanied by ing from rabbits to reptiles, the factsheet includes information on the transport regulations for animals and a useful checklist to help pets and their owners cope with the rigours of removal day.
34 members of the group which has preserved it.
Before it went into retirement the bus was one of 650 Worldmasters operated by NV Westnederland. Now it is to take its place among more than 300 vehicles spanning 90 years which will be on display on May 17-18, marking company which became Leyland Motors.
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