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By The Hawk hockey on Skates
Meating Point
T"Queen's birthday was celebrated by B.R.S. (Meat Haulage), Ltd., also as independence day. A cocktail party, mainly for customers, marked their severance from the now-defunct United Carriers, Ltd. Mr. J. B. Garrett, chairman of the B.R.S. company who, I gather, was instrumental in the breakaway from U.C.L., radiated confidence and good cheer.
As I looked down from the first floor of Smithfield House, a van parked opposite, bearing the title of United Carriers, Ltd., served as a reminder of an anachronism that did yeoman service under the conditions which it was created to meet, but no longer has a place in a country which, it is still alleged, "never had it so good."
Proud Carmen
THIS is a momentous year for the Worshipful Company of Carmen, for the three principal officers are all practising craftsmen. Mr. J. F. E. Pye is master, Mr. Raymond Birch is senior warden, and Mr. H. H. Crow is junior warden. I was Mr. Birch's guest last week at a luncheon of the livery at the splendid Tallow Chandlers' Hall. Mr. T. D. Corpe had forsaken the traffic courts in and around Bristol to be one of the principal guests, and set a standard of polished wit in afterluncheon speech-making which his successors. including Mr. Birch, were well able to maintain.
Joneses, Unite !
mR. S. H. JONES, who was chairman of the Scottish Division of the Traders Road Transport Association for many years, is trying to keep up with the Joneses. He is inviting them to subscribe to a fund to provide a wedding present for Princess Margaret and her fiance, Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones.
Worthy Successor
I WAS sorry to learn, just after last week's issue had closed for I press, of the death of Mr. Henry Backhouse, whose name has been linked with the north-western traffic courts ever since 824
they started. Many tributes were paid to his memory by Mr. F. Williamson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, and others.
As I said last week, Mr. Backhouse's son has in recent months ably taken his father's place, and there is no doubt that his name will soon be equally well known among operators in the north-west.
Permanent Record
APPARENTLY believing that pieces of paper get lost, a tipper operator near London has devised a novel method of recording defects. The tailboard of one of his vehicles bears, in letters about a foot high, the message: "2nd gear broke," AS well as fielding a first-class cricket side, Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd. (whose tyres are not to be sneezed at, either), can boast an international roller hockey ,layer. He is Roy Chilton, who will be absent from duty From May 7-15 when, as a member of Wolverhampton Roller Hockey Club, he will be competing in the World Roller Hockey .7.hampionships at Madrid.
Something for All A LTHOUGH the multi-head, fully automatic, meat-pie jelly '-'1.injector which will make its first appearance at the viechanical Handling Exhibition, to be held at Earls Court from day 3-13, is likely to have only'firnited appeal, the 279 stands hoUld contain something of interest to anyone concerned with conamie movement of materials, and not least to progressive tauliers and C-licensees. This year the biennial exhibition will over 500,000 sq. ft of floor space.
'roper 'Mazed
rRYING to reach the Lex garage in London's Soho the other evening, I became swallowed up in a maze of one-way Erects and finished up in a cut de sac. I was about to give up ne quest as hopeless when I spotted a police sergeant, to whom poured out my plight. With a broad grin he said I could ardly have attempted anything more difficult. After giving le explicit directions, involving two left turns, a right turn and so more left turns, he added, "If I were you, I should leave le car at home and go by bus."
Having been charged 6s. 6d. to park for about 41 hours, I fink his advice was sound.
■ olace for Stoutness
"AT men of the world, rejoice! According to Dr. R.
Hartmann, an Austrian lawyer, who is an expert in traffic tses, you are less prone to accidents than tall, thin men. orpulence is accompanied by an easy-going disposition, hereas thin drivers are apparently unpredictable.