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1st September 1961
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

PROOF, if it were really needed, of how much the Road Haulage Association has the interests of hauliers at heart has been amply provided by Mr. P. J. Cheshire, the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area secretary.

We printed last week the news that a number of small men, mainly owner-drivers, were at variance with a customer in Mr. Cheshire's area, and had refused to work for the customer.

Now Mr. Cheshire figured largely in this affair, giving freely of his time and his office's facilities. The hauliers. he tells me, were not members of the R.H.A. when he took up their case. It was a real example of putting interests of the haulier first. I hope the hauliers reciprocated by joining the R.H.A.

Good Job?

ARECENT grant appears in the Metropolitan area's Applications and Decisions, which I quote in full; "Payne. G. T. Vary conditions to read:—Fruit and vegetables within 10 miles of the "Mother Red Cap,Camden Town. and empties on return."

Mr. Payne sounds the sort of man I'd like to work for— unless the empties are crates and not bottles.

We Was Robbed

HAVING published a feature story under this heading only a fortnight ago, it was a little ironic that a member of The Commercial Motor editorial staff should become involved A24

in something approaching "smash and grab" in the course of his duties.

An operator's photograph was wanted urgently. The only available copy, was hanging resplendent in its frame in the office of The Chief." So certain steps were taken.

The following day 'The Chief" was discussing relative matters with our representative and to emphasize a point, turned to the wall where the picture had hung. The game was up!

Onion Peeler's Prosperity

w/HAT is your personal yardstick of prosperity? A wellVV known American advertising man uses a new razor blade every time he shaves; it is his way of celebrating his first million-dollar bank balance. My yardstick would, I think, be a small radar act (to save me peering down from the heights at which I hover).

For an onion-peeler who recently appeared as a witness before the Eastern L.A., the date when he felt his business begin to expand was " when 1 sold my bicycle and bought a car."

Ugh !

THE normal user recently granted to a Scottish haulier to carry "inedible herring from Tarbert, Oban, Campbell. town, etc„" is going to be a little awkward for Enforcement Officers to sort out if they seek to prove his herring are not outside the normal scope. I can visualize certain of the more ambitious Civil Servants lployed by the Ministry, volunteering for newly created posts Enforcement Officer (Food Taster), with an eye to earning little danger money.

Of course, there is the thought that inedible herring might detected by a sense of smell—which would save a lot of digestion.

'wo, Four or Sealed

SEE from the latest road research report (price 7s. net from H.M. Stationery Office) that the Road Research Laboratory Ls been carrying out tests on the three major. headlamp Lvelopments of recent years. These are the Continental ymmetric meeting beam, the American four-headlamp system, id the British all-glass sealed-beam unit.

They have come to three main conclusions:----(a) that the iprovement in minimum seeing distances with the new British fits is between 21 and 26 per cent. (b) that the unified aropean beam is comparable with the four-headlamp stem. and (c) that the American four-lamp units are slightly better" than the American two-lamp system. What I should dearly love to see is some research into flectors. I was quite staggered. on a recent visit to my ucas friends, when they showed me the tremendous triations that can exist, even when all the reflectors easure up to one or other of the two British Standards


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