100,000 was his lucky number
29th October 1983, Page 22
29th October 1983
Page 22
Page 22, 29th October 1983
— 100,000 was his lucky number
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Townsend Thoresen, Townsend
TOWNSEND THORESEN marked its 100,000th ferry crossing between Zeebrugge and Dover with a bottle of champagne and a carriage clock for David Gilbert, who has used the service regularly since it was launched in 1966. He was welcomed ashore by John Briggs, managing director of Townsend Thoresen's Dover services and a director of European Ferries, the parent company. David was returning with his Volvo from his weekly trip to Cologne for G. W. Thompson Jewett, of Sutton in Ashfield. I estimate that if all the carriage clocks presented in the past 10 years were laid end to end across the Channel, ferries would be unnecessary.