Perpetual motion at the airport
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IF KF Cars, of Gatwick, succeed in doing with their new Daf 49seater, with Duple Laser 2 body, what a press announcement forecasts, it will be quite an exercise in productivity.
The coach is scheduled to make 36 10-mile round trips a day between Gatwick Airport and the Crest Hotel. It will have to average two runs an hour from 6am until midnight. Passengers will have to move at the double. I trust that the law of ever-decreasing circles will not apply.
Annual mileage is expected to be about 120,000, which will equal some 330 days a year of high-pressure operation. But, then, Ken Faulks, managing director of KF Cars, is a gogetter. Starting in 1973 with two cars and a small van doing mainly taxi work, he now has a substantial coach fleet, to be augmented by another three this year, as well as cars and vans, and is entrenched in ground support for air services.
THE BALL, or should I say wheel, has started to roll for Roger Hobby's sponsored cycle ride to Tipcon at Harrogate (CM, BEV, April 20). Fleet Vehicle Delivery of Tunbridge Wells has pitched in with a pledge of £1 for each of the 100 miles which the Road Haulage Association National Tipping Service chairman is to pedal.