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A fair cop
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HOW unfortunate can you be? This could well be the question that Don Janes, managing director of Whitefriars Coaches is asking himself this week. His company's Cummins-engined Ford R226 coach recently took a party of the Metropolitan Police central traffic squad on a tour of the West German vehicle-testing stations to see how the job was done over there. The vehicle had been behaving itself very well throughout the trip, the speedo was reading 32,000-odd miles.
Arrival at one of the testing stations saw the party being shown around and the Germans looking for a guinea-pig vehicle to show how efficient they were.
Jo, you've guessed it—the Ford was offered by the British policemen as a paragon of British p.s.v.
What did they find? A loose front-axle U-bolt.