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Transport beats them into shape
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WHAT would the railways do without road transport? The replica of Stephenson's Rocket had lift-off (the rails) just before the Rainhill railway festival because the wooden wheels buckled, and the designer, Mike Satow, was in despair. His 1uc1. changed when by chance he met Mike Sutton, managinc director of Sutton and Son (S Helens) Ltd, and Roge Boughton, commercia manager, in a Liverpool restau rant.
The two road hauliers are no just asute businessmen. The) have engineering flair and soor designed a set of special stee wedges for the wheels and bea them into shape over a black smith's anvil in their depot. The wedges were a perfect fit anc the wheel buckling was cured.
The story was deservedly thE breathless page one splash in S Helens Star.