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HE press-release paper used by le National Freight Company's ew sUbsidiary, Summers the lumbers, is even more arch :an the title. The name appears n the drawing of a spanner om one and of which spill the rords Information Leaks.
Who said only a drip could do J ch a thing?
The Transport and General /orkers' Union might be more :ceptive to the staff's wnership of the NFC if its name ad a more proletarian touch. /hat about Caters the -eighters, Hoovers the Movers, uckers the Truckers, Harriers le Carriers or Paul Leers the auliers?
But for a good hard sell, you 3n't beat Ray A. Bouts the 3yabouts.
Iusy Bees go on pub-push
JB-CRAWLING for charity is a ost agreeable way of filling leself with virtue, as the busy ?..es of Hinckley have 3monstrated. Employees of aes Transport raised £437 by mnsoring a barrow and barrel J s h in which teams of three )ople in fancy dress one in e barrel and two pushing — sited as many pubs as possible iring a Sunday lunchtime. leir motto: Time is honey. The collection was matched pund for pound by the Lex ervice Group, so that the lidland area disabled sports lampionships to be held at inckley on October 3-4 will .nefit by £874.
lying museum t Leyland
IERE CAN surely be no
,jection to planning approval a scheme submitted by ntral Lancashire Development irpo ration to South Ribble rough Council for a
mmercial vehicle museum at yland? According to the Corporation, it would be the largest and the most comprehensive of its kind in Britain and could be opened late next spring.
What more appropriate site could be found than the former Leyland Vehicles premises in King Street? BL Heritage, a Leyland subsidiary, would join in the venture and contribute its own splendid collection of commercial vehicles, goods and passenger, including steamers. Vehicles would be "live", and visitors could ride on them during special events.
A separate section would illustrate the link between the development of commercial vehicles and cars.
The museum could become a valuable tourist attraction on holiday coach tours to the Lakes and other places of scenic beauty not far away.
PROVING that it will go to any length (or, rather, height) to please the customer, DAF has introduced a cab specially for the driver who insists on going upstairs to bed.
Yorks kids see spots before the eyes
OBSERVANT, intelligent children between the ages of seven and 15 in West Yorkshire have a chance to win attractive prizes by buying a £1 day rover ticket giving almost unlimited bus and rail travel in the county and then using their eyes and brains.
A spotting competition has been devised largely around local places of interest by West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in conjunction with all Metro-National bus services in the county and with the MetroLink local rail network. It continues until September 13 and is suggested as an enjoyable way of learning about the district.
It is an idea that parents, nerves racked by interminable school holidays, should welcome. After all, there is always the possibility that the little perishers might not come back.
A presidential address syndrome
RON BRINDLE, director of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and Controller of Research and Development, the new president of the Institution of Highway Engineers, chose Enhanced Serviceability as the subject of his presidential address. He spoke of the "profession of transportation", not, of course, to be confused with the vulgar trade of transport, in which the operators simply talk about better service.
This profession was, he said, a new and unique discipline which had "grown out of highway engineering". This was not calculated to flatter ship and barge-owners and railwaymer who thought no end of themselves in those far-off da when roads were largely mud tracks.
But it is undoubtedly true. T1 concept of transport as an extension of the production lin has been created by modern commercial vehicle operators, who have been helped in forming it as much by the deficiencies of the railways as the highly developed science c highway engineering.
OCTOBER 4 should be a good day out for owners of Bedford built up to 1960. They can participate in a rally at Luton a part of the Bedford golden jubilee celebrations. Entry is fr and so is lunch for two. G. Hughes, Vauxhall Motors Ltd, Luton, Beds, will supply entry forms.
There will be four classes: A, pre-1940 vans of trucks; 8,194 60 vans and trucks; C, pre-194( buses and coaches; D, 1940-60 buses and coaches. Each class winner will be awarded a tropt and each entrant will receive a commemorative plaque.
A thief's a thief in any colour
POLITICS have not prevented the Road Haulage Association from recognising outstanding efforts in South Africa to prevel thefts of goods in transit. Since 1972, the Association's Vehicle Security Committee has awarded a tankard in appreciation of international co operation and enthusiastic endeavour in this direction and has now bestowed it on Donald Simpson, the retired general manager of the Security Association of South Africa.
Jack Brown, chairman of the Vehicle Security Committee am arch-enemy of all lorry thieves, was unable to go to Johannesburg to make the presentation, so his son Ronald managing director of Video RS/ deputised for him.