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Mr. Else Gets Tough
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monthly traffic courts instituted Mr. John Else to deal specifically action 178 inquiries are becoming dilution in the West Midland area and there is, I fear, little of any marked fall off in the r of candidates called up. (A illy know n C-licence operator rore than 1,000 vehicles will "star billing" very soon.) •
s impressed, at a recent Section quiry at Birmingham, with the ;hness with which Mr. Else :ated the maintenance arrangeof T. H. Goodwin and Sons. urch, operators of a sizeable usiness with some 70 vehicles on .nce (The (*ommercial Motor, ber 17).
Else asked the managing director, H. Goodwin. and his transport :r many shrewd technical quesabout the firm's maintenance ments and about the age of the /hen he learned that 28 of the 70 ; were more than five years old. ;e said a very heavy replacement nme was called for. Told that ew vehicles had been received in this year the LA inquired: "How hould be delivered up to March. Mr. Goodwin said it was hard what types of vehicles were In the past. suitable vehicles en found. and then the models would be discontinued. He instanced 3-ton Bedfords, narrow enough to get through farm gateways but now were no longer made to the same dimensions.
Mr. Else was not to be nudged off his objective. His problems, the L.A. told Mr. Goodwin. -must be common to the milk trade as a whole. "What firm orders have you placed for new vehicles?" Mr. Goodwin's reply was inconclusive. Uncertainties over future milk contracts made decisions diffictilt, he said.
" You're not going to lose the work of 28 vehicles between now and March", Mr. Else insisted. When Goodwin said it was not necessary to replace the vehicles immediately, the LA suggested that Goodwin was full of good intentions but when it came to the crunch he stalled.
I say again ", said Mr. Else. "How many new vehicles on order?" No definite number was on order, Goodwin replied.
The LA checked over his papers. " you replaced eight out of 70 last year. If seven years was an average vehicle life you would have to buy 10 each year. All you did, despite reminders from my officers, was to buy eight."
Mr. Goodwin continued the unequal struggle. "Electric vehicles arc good for 20 years", he said. The LA was