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BY THE HAWK
On Parade
THERE they were, about 40 vehicles and drivers ... on parade. I Spotless. Gleaming. Yes, drivers, too. The Kilmarnock Equitable Co-operative Society transport fleet, all set for inspection. Waiting at the head of the polished parade—and not without the merest touch of apprehension was transport foreman J. McIntosh. At attention.
Ah! There she was. With a GV9 gleam in her eye.
And slowly, expertly, she assessed the merit of the assembled fleet. Then she beamed: "The Society's standard of vehicle maintenance has improved beyond recognition in the last few years. I must compliment Mr. McIntosh and his staff."
The Inspector-General? No, not Mrs. B. C. But Mrs. Jane Young, KECS vice7president.
Here now . . .
UNDOUBTEDLY coincidence—and a sign of the changing times: the latest issue of the 20-year-old Potteries Motor Traction Co. house magazine features an article on "the new methods used to produce your magazine . . . offset photo lithography". And the latest Packham Post (London haulier A. Packham and Co. Ltd.) features "the new methods used to produce your magazine ..." Yes, you've guessed.
. . . And on the Way?
rr HE news (see page 22) of Throughways Transport's vision of buses racing along motorways with the drivers sitting back and doing nothing is bound to attract a deal of comment from operators. But I commend to you this passenger reaction ...
On Her Toes
SHE is a former ballet dancer. She is 26. Her name is Margery Harris—and she is selling Transits. The first two weeks of her tour of Ford dealerships and would-be customers have proved that:
Elected "Miss Transit 1967" by a Ford selection committee. Margery was given a concentrated sales course—already paying dividends, or so I'm told by enthusiastic South Wales dealers (first to benefit).
In any case, Margery is on to a good thing: 80.000 Transits have been sold in 22 months!
Of Course
UESS who has raised the question of soiled paper tissues beini 14.-11 deposited on the floors of buses? LT conductor R. Jacks, o Barking. And guess what happened? The matter was immediatels referred by LT chief medical officer Dr. L. G. Norman to tip Ministry of Health.
And this, for the edification of p.s.v. operators everywhere, is du Ministry's considered opinion: "The Ministry experts give as thei view that the health risks involved are not great, but the practice is of course, an offensive one".
Memo to Mrs. C.
DE: Bus Nationalization.
IX Even in slap-happy Ceylon, not mon than 15 per cent of fleet buses were off ttu road on any one day for maintenance beton nationalization. But since N-Day over there the position has become chaotic.
And now Ceylon's Minister of National ized Services, V. A. Sugathadasa, has aske( the Ceylon Transport Board to explain wh more than 1,000 of the 4,738 CTB buse: have to be garaged daily for repairs an maintenance. It's a world record, he says,. but hardly with pride.
Obviously!
DRETTY Miss Marlene Gester, genera manager of General Transport, Basle put in a plug for her country's traditionalll recognized largest industry at the Metro politan Traffic Court last week She was complaining about delays o trailer loads of machinery from England She was asked: "Is one day important? Her reply: "In Switzerland we keep goo' time."