Tops at the Mop
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Gardner is the showman's best friend — the Gardner diesel that is if Stratford-on-Avon Mop is anything to go by. Tell a showman you're interested in engines and road transport and nine times out of ten he'll tell you about his Gardner-engined lorry and generating set that never let him down.
Transport operators talk of reliability being of the essence when a valuable load is being taken to the docks for shipment or to a works where it will be fed into a production line. But what about that giant whirlabout, or the dodgems, or the dipper, or the jerk-you-off-your-feet contraption, or the roundabouts when they are working at peak pressure on a fine day at the fair? Multiply 10p by 20 or more and by 20 again for the number of trips in the hour (at busy times it goes up to 15 or 20p on the whirlabout) and you get some idea of the concentrated money making that's a. must for a showman on good days to tide him over until the next time he gets a lucky break.