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A walk on the wild side
A MALIGN FATE decreed that on the day London Transport gave free travel passes to successful entrants in a poster competition for children, many of the bus crews should go on strike to express their dislike of a supervisor. Fortunately the overall winner has her own Austin 1300, a gift from a doting Father.
The competition on the theme of enjoying London's forest was sponsored by London. Transport and organised by the Epping Forest Centenary Trust. It attracted more than 1000 entries from primary and secondary schools in north and east London and west Essex. There were three categories — age under 11, under 15 and over 16. Many of the entries showed fertile imagination and artistic skill, and one or two echoed the golden era of London Transport posters.
The winner in each category received a free pass for a year's travel on the buses and underground railways, with threemonth passes for the three runners-up. Pretty 18-year-old Mandy Niall, the overall winner, also won a 10-year-old SM-type single-deck bus for Loughton County High School. It will be refurbished by London Transport and painted in the school colours before being handed over.
Mandy submitted a beautifully executed wild-life study in ink with the foreground in water colour. Like so many budding artists, her ambition is to be an illustrator. She deserves to succeed. costing some £15m which the Post Office has ordered? The 42,000 Bedford HA vans ordered by the Post Office since 1972 would, I am told, stretch from London to Birmingham, causing a monster traffic block.
If the 4026 Dodge Spacevan 2500-Series on order were piled one on top of the other, those at the bottom would be squashed flat.