Not sweet simplicity
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Every one of John Ilanlon's shafts hit the target dead centre —but without hint of malice.
"I've been in the Northern Traffic Area for 22 years, and I always read the technical press —to see what I've been doing." (Professional pause.) " And to find out why I shouldn't have done it I "I can remember cases involving so many GV9s that it was fortunate we hadn't got the Swansea computer. Now the computer can produce the most remarkable statistics about GV9s—the totals for different periods, the ratios of increase and so on. Unfortunately it can't tell us whether this is more people having fewer GV9s or fewer people having more GV9s or more people having more GV9s.
"Now that it's getting into its stride we can get simple answers. The trouble is, we haven't got enough simple problems 1 " It was enough to have half the audience standing to applaud at the end. Not least, perhaps, because he had said with obvious sincerity : " Haulage today is beset by amateurs. Heavy goods vehicles should he operated by professionals and managed by professional—and preferably licensed—managers."