LORRY DRIVER OF THE YEAR LIVERPOOL ROUND
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Honours Shared on Merseyside
By Ashley Taylor
THERE is no provision for sorting out 1 an overall best performance from the participants in the Liverpool round of the LDOY contest, but this does not mean that the competitors and public are uninterested in that aspect of the proceedings. Thus, there was special applause last Sunday for J. Kendrick (Paraffin Distributing Co. Ltd., BMC), a competitor in Class C who had the lowest penalty of the day, a mere 511 points, for the Highway Code, the road circuit and the three tests.
With 25 entries for the team section there was lively speculation on the destination of this particular prize. Finally it went to the trio of Thomas Scott and Sons (Bakers) Ltd.-E. Grunes, E. A. Pinney and T. McComish, all class winners.
Otherwise excellent, the organization got off to rather a late start so that the heaviest classes had a long wait before undertaking the tests; it was 5.30 p.m. by the time the Last vehicle started its round. Total number of starters was 125. some 20 up on last year. It seemed a pity that in the absence of the military class there was only one representative from this segment of the transport world. He was J. B. Jones, Last year's class winner, and this time driving an RAF Leyland six-wheeler in Class E (2). In this category the municipal services were represented by two large refuse collectors and a low-loader from Liverpool, plus a tender from the auxiliary fire services.
One of the municipal entrants, L Hanmer (SD Pakamatic), was is national finalist last year, but on Sunday he missed out by dropping heavily on the loading bay test. However, his companion, M. Jones (Liverpool City Engineering Dept., Dennis Paxit), beat T. Almond (Threlfalls Chesters Ltd., AEC) by 7 points. The two were level on the Highway Code, on the road and on the first test. Then Almond forged