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NORTH!
Reinforcing its reputation as the North's leading innovator, the Spagthorpe Motor Company has turned its back on rising diesel prices with the launch of the "Cockerel", an TS-tonner fuelled by methane extracted from chicken manure.
Long-serving engineering overseer Isaac "Slide-rule" Frazackerley confirms: This is the fuel of t'future. When diesel's run out we'll still have chickens. The legendary Iron Works were built on remains of told Heckmonthwaite chicken farm so we're not short of fuel. We'll be sending knock-down Cockerels worldwide—in fact anywhere they've got chickens for fuel."
A preproduction version of the Cockerel has already been trialled extensively in the Oswaldtwistle area with spectacular results. According to Spagthorpe's oleaginous PR guru Frank Chastity: "The Cockerel's in a league of its own, old boy. All you need's a shovel and a lot of chickens. just fill up the patented Komposterrm with manure and methane flows into the large gas bag on the roof. The thing is, with the gas bag inflated the Cockerel stands over zoft
Quizzed about changes in emissions regs, Frazackerley admitted: "There's no problem on open road, lad, but the smell does attract dogs." FLASH: A Spagthorpe spokesman yesterday denied all knowledge of the mystery vehicle that has damaged bridges throughout the North leaving a mysterious odour of chickens.