Huts in a name
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aet's hope the schoolchildren playing Salvesen's routeing game have more success than traffic clerks at an American shipping company who sent a consignment required just six miles down the road an additional 3,994 miles. The 33 Nissan huts, ordered by the US Army and designed to withstand bomb blasts, are now making a 4,000-mile voyage to Aberdeen—our Aberdeen, that is, rather than the US base at Aberdeen, Maryland, up the road from Baltimore where the huts were manufactured. Blue Line Buildings of Doncaster, the British distributor of the huts, sells an average of three a week but has offered the surplus cheaply to citizens of Aberdeen (Scotland). It seems the confusion arose when orders for the US base and a Scottish oil company got mixed up. Don't you just hate it when that happens?