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Far-fetched?
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NO lack of anecdotes at this year's CM Fleet Management Conference, which certainly went went with a swing, I thought. Speaker Roger Denniss of Bass Production was telling delegates that his company's annual trunk mileage was the equivalent of 25 return trips to the moon. As he said it, a thought appeared to strike him. "Perhaps that's where those missing trailers are!"
Dr Warner, examining driver behaviour and accidents, punched home the fact that children don't think like adults; drivers should allow for this, he thought. And he told the story of the small boy warned by his mother to wait until the cars went by before crossing the road. He was later found still waiting at the roadside with no traffic in sight. Asked why, he retorted indignantly that the cars hadn't gone by yet! Another "child logic" story concerned a mother who was somewhat alarmed when a very frank TV play came on while her small daughter was sitting watching. The inevitable happened TV hero and heroine slipped into bed together. "What a naughty lady," says small daughter.
"What makes you say that, dear?" asks mother in trepidation.
"She diqn't clean her teeth before going to bed!" the outer two drag the middle outfit through, and finally the front two pull the rear one out of the slough.
Flying Dutchman
Lots of interesting people are over for the Show this year. It is perhaps invidious to single particular folk out for mention, but I feel I must record my facination at sitting next to Mijnheer J. A. Huisman at the Fodens press dinner. Mr Huisman is product manager of Geveke Motoren of Amsterdam, which has just taken on the Dutch distributorship for Fodens.
You will probably be just as unfamiliar with the name of Geveke as I was; but your interest may be aroused, as mine was when he casually mentioned in the course of conversation that his group had an annual turnover of £1,000,000,000. Seems it's the sixth biggest company in Holland, with concessions for Oshkosh trucks and White-Autocar from the USA, and Grove cranes and Caterpillar in several countries — which latter some people would say was like having a licence to print money.
He had some very firm ideas about the type of vehicles with which Fodens might make a killing in Europe — but I won't give the game away, because they were not exactly what you might expect.
"Spare" rib
Ask any exponent of women's lib and they will disabuse you of the notion that "spare rib" means a practical joke about vehicle spare parts. One female that it would be useless to leg pull would be young Jenny Forman, for Jenny is an apprentice fitter up in Grimsby.
Although she is only 16 years old, she made up her mind to become a fitter two years ago and her parents asked the Grimsby Garage and Transport FTA if she would be able to take up that career when she lefi school.
Now she has realized her ambitior and has been in training for twc months. Proving that enthusiasm it the best motivation, Jenny is reputee not only to be a good worker bui actually pesters people for work when she has nothing to do.
Before anybody starts to try to sip her on they should know that she i! already employed by Hartforc Motors (Lincolnshire) Ltd and filo .transfer fee could be extremely pro hibitive.
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