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JR ARTICLE "LT slow to
e problems" (CM, May 11 '9) is another typical case of ticians poking their noses ;re they are not wanted.
hie can only sympathise poor old London Transport. ; a shame that LT's chief ;hanical engineer cannot sically grab hold of Miss lagh Roberts and rub her a in his "perennial spares )Iem," or that LT's personofficer can't rub her nose in staff recruitment problem. would surely end up at the of the day with an extremely nose, kfter all, it was the GLC that ed LT to change its policy of gning its own buses to one uying off the peg. It was on Government's political inmoo, as as with all nationalised atries, that the majority of fleet should be supplied by Ish Leyland.
las anyone tried getting a ✓ engine out of Leyland ly? We get more blood out of local stones than engines of Leyland.
note here comments made Derbyshire's chief police stable relating to Rovers. It's use Leyland saying that its rice department hasn't been suited — even if they had 'e is little they can do, as land cannot or will not supspares for their vehicles.
Oliss Shelagh Roberts critic; LT for "failing to recruit ra drivers despite being lorised.' The only way she achieve that sort of thing is introduce a sort of press g. Who wants to get ulcers coronaries fighting through don's congested streets for hours a week with an eightdouble-deck bus? The GLC Id solve that problem themes. LT can't regulate private lorists, can it?
-low does Miss Roberts pro e to speed the GLC-inspired -man-operated bus service? tainly not by sitting in the back of a GLC chauffeur-driven limousine thinking about it.
If you think I sound bitter and biased, you're quite right. After nine years of trying to operate a vehicle fleet, and interfered with in every conceivable way by political decisions which take no account of the real problems, I've just about had enough. If Shelagh Roberts thinks she can do better than LT in running their bus fleet, perhaps LT should give her a trial. I doubt she'd last a week before having a nervous breakdown.
Miss Roberts, please crawl back under your stone.
For myself, I'm not associated in any way with LT, I just work for a nationalised corporation where the problems are much the same.
C. P. GROVES, Tadworth, Surrey.