The Threat of Pipelines
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TALKING to a well-known haulier this week, I mentioned I the possible danger (in my view) from the introduction of private pipelines. He surprised me by showing only a passing interest. He vaguely rerriembered reading in The Commercial Motor that a private Bill is before the House of Commons on the subject, and that the Government is preparing a Bill of its own.
Now I've come across other hauliers who look upon pipelines as a means of moving oil—but nothing else. They arc, in fact, a means of moving virtually anything, liquid or solid. Let me tell you a perfectly true story that has never been disclosed before. . .
Shale By Pipe
Fr MEmain contractors at the Spencer steelworks site at
Llanwern, Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons, Ltd., have—to say the very least—received a welter of unfavourable publicity as the result of the operation of shale-carrying tippers through Newport, Mon. The tippers are, of course, working for McAlpine's, engaged in moving some 2m. tons of shale to fill in marshy ground at the site.
Now it was only, I understand, through circumstances beyond their control that McAlpine's did not build a pipeline to move that shale. If they had done (and they wanted to), not one tipper would have graced the streets of Newport. A lot of hauliers would have been without the work, and, equally
A30 to the point, a lot of tippers would never have been sold! That, my haulage friends, is what pipelines mean.
Equine IVIouthfui
TWO horses tried to eat a parked vehicle in Portland, Maine U.S.A., a few days ago. It might have seemed that the were trying to "put the bite" on a rival, but I am assured thai they merely took a fancy to a thick coating of salt, which wa! picked up from the road,
here was no mistaking the teeth-marks, however. It cost to put things right!
Ach Prettier Now
N to my desk the other day dropped two Bristol Omnibus
Co., Ltd.. timetables. Mr. C. R. Buckley, the traffic lager, obviously feels a bit proud of them, and justly so. to now, Bristol Omnibus has contented itself with a plain n.cover with black lettering for these important publications. was nice and functional, and no doubt did the job, but to mind, timetables help to sell bus travel. These new Bristol still retain the overall green colour, but now look smart, y and attractive. In fact they make you want to ride on a
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kivf indebted for this story to a colleague writing in The totor.
Didn't Marples say you weren't to go over thirty?"
He did."
then why do it?"
Well, it's down hill."
Wakes no difference."
It does, you know. The brakes have failed."
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vehicles at the Lorry Driver Competition at Weymouth tot safely into the testing ground under a rather low bridge. t a pity, after a fine display, that the first Army lorry out Id remove part of its canopy!