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Liverpool Star Qualifies for His Seventh Final

19th June 1964, Page 55
19th June 1964
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Page 55, 19th June 1964 — Liverpool Star Qualifies for His Seventh Final
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NO matter whether you are a designer or driver, builder or breakdown man, "technic." or tea-boy, the only way you can have escaped knowing that the past 12 months have been Liverpool's year is to have been left severely alone on an uncharted atoll where no selfrespecting vehicle would take you.

Now the Mersey men have got into the act started by the music boys. And their enthusiasm is such that even before they had finished running the first ever North West, or Liverpool, eliminating heat of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition, the chairman of the organizing committee, Councillor A. Danford, announced that they hoped to be allowed to stage the national final one year.

Certainly the city has every reason to be proud of its first contest.. Of the 113 entries, 106 were new to the competition. Only three failed to start from Canning Place, near Pierhead, on the seven-mile route test.

The manceuvring tests were carried out in the grounds of the Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. factory at Speke, on the banks of the Mersey. Here it was that J. C. Martindale, one of the crack corps of Tate and Lyle Transport drivers, showed the skill that has got him into the national final six times, and has given him overall victory at the Stoke contest five years in succession. This year his firm decided to let someone else have a go at Stoke, four workmates scooped the pool at Manchester last month, so here was Martindale on home ground with his Albion in Class C leading the way (although there was not an overall winner decided) with the lowest penalty marks of the day-50.

He finished 91 points ahead of the nearest competitor in his class and 47+ points ahead of the next best class winner, L. Hanmer driving a 61-ton SD refuse collector for Liverpool Corporation in Class El-Hanmer's effort being a particularly praiseworthy performance.

Martindale, who since his success in the L.D.O.Y. competition and in Tate and Lyle's own contests has started a driving school in his spare time, had a clear card in answering questions on the Highway Code, dropped five marks on the route test, 12 on the kerbing test, 25 on the width-judging run, and eight on the bay parking.

There were 49 who answered all their Highway Code questions correctly, 25 had clear runs on the route test, but only one completed a manceuvring test without fault. That was W. Rhodes (ChiversHartley Ltd.) in a Class E2 Atkinson whose perfect run came on the kerbing test in which, on penalty points, Martindale was down in seventh position. Rhodes was not faulted on the Highway Code, incurred only three penalties on the route test, and 46 on the bay parking. The obstacle that incurred 198 penalties for him (for a total of 247) and so cost him second place in his class, was the width-judging run which several, particularly the tipper boys, found so lacking in obvious pitfalls that they roared through the rubber Dunlop marker cones at great speed, and equal effect!

The trio from H. Taylor (Transport) Ltd., of Spoke, set something of a fashion in their Leyland Super Comets, for they competed fully loaded. L. Murphy, the hest of the three, with 411 penalties, had the heaviest load-64 tons of tyres--all ready for a run to Coventry the next morning. "After all", he said, "we perform with them loaded all the year round, so why shouldn't we do so now? If we didn't, we would only handicap ourselves by having to load and rope up tonight ready for the run tomorrow," J.M.

RESULTS OF LIVERPOOL COMPETITION

Class A, op to 16 ft.: 1. E. °runes (Thomas Scott and Sons Ltd.). Austin, 1561 penalty points;

2, R. Burgess (Metal Box Co. Ltd.), Commer. 169: 3, T. A. Ford (Park Bottling Co. Ltd.), C'ommer. 278,

Class B, 16 to 19 ft.: 1. D. Meers (T. R. Bassford), Bedford. 180; 2, K. nrockiehurst (Broadhurst and Co. (Gadbrook) Ltd.), Commer, 210; 3, E. Downing (Thomas Scott and Sons Ltd.). Cott:titer, 223.

Class C. 19 to 22 ft.: I. I. C. ,Marlindale (Tate and Lyle Transport Ltd.), Albion, 50; 2, C. Toner (Sayers (Confectioners) Ltd.), Thames, 141: 3, N Morgan (G.P.O.). Morris. 144.

Class D., 22 to 25 ft.: 1, K. RaMe (S.P.D. Ltd.). Commer, 213; 2, A. Moseley (Chivers-Hartley Ltd.). Bedford. 228; 3, T. Morris (Chivers-Hartley Ltd.). Bedford. 251.

Class El, over 25 ft., two axles: 1, L. Hanmer (Liverpool Corporation City Engineer's Dept.). Shelvoke and Drewry. 971: 2, C. Newman (British Oxygen Co. Ltd.). Bedford. 139; 3: 2. Wright (British Oxygen Co. Ltd.). Bedford. 203. Class E2. over 25 ft— more time two axles: 1, L. J. Rowlandson (Silver Roadways Ltd.), Foden, 192; 2, W. Rhodes (Cbivers-Hartley Ltd.). Atkinson. 247; 3, R. Kirk (Tate and Lyle Transport Lid.), Feder'. 291.

Class F1, semi-trailers up to 30 ft.. tractive units under 4 tons: 1. G. A. Ellis (Tetley Walker Breweries Ltd.), Bedford, 158; 2, T. Green (Tate and Lyle Transport Ltd.). Bedford. 192; .1, C. A. Edwards (Cammell Laird and Co Ltd.). Bedford, 199.

Class G. flat or sided, semi-trallers OP to 30 ft., tractive units 4 tons and over 1, G. Bums (Liverpool Warehousing Co. Ltd.), Atkinson, 247; 2, .f. McCann (Liverpool Warehousing Co. Ltd.), Atkinson. 4491; 3. E. G. Owen (Silver Roadways Ltd.), Foden, 7561.

Class 11, box or tanker semi-trailers, tractive units 4 tons and over 1. A. Sprott (Petrofina (Gt. Britain) Ltd.), A.E.C.„ 283; 2. G. Parkes (British )esgen Co. Ltd.). Scarnmetl, 469. (Only two entries.) Class S. Service vehicles. 19 to 24 ft.: 1. J. B. !ones (R.A.F. Valley. Anglesey), Bedford. 439. ioniv one entrasn.)


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