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Ancient and Modern
By The Hawk
AA SAXON burial ground has been discovered on the site at Winnall, Winchester, where S. and L. Bull Bros., Ltd., have built a new depot to maintain their fleet of 108 vehicles. It extends into the adjoining plot, where last week I saw archwologists at work on neat rows of graves 18-in. deep, each containing a skeleton. Behind the company's head office in High Street, Winchester, a fine Roman mosaic floor has been discovered and it is now being dismantled and reassembled in a museum.
These are the only links which Bull Bros. have with the past, for their story is one of a meteoric rise from a horse and cart to 108 motor vehicles in the short space of 31 years.
Mistaken Identity
TWO classic bricks were dropped last Friday. One was
in the Queen's speech in the Court of Chief Pleas in Guernsey. The other was in The Commercial Motor, in which a portrait of Mr. Tom Jackson, a director of Key Warehousing and Transport Co., Ltd., was described as that of Mr. Harold Hunter, managing 'director of Hunters of Hull (Transport), Ltd. I hope they will' be as gracious as the people of Guernsey and overlook the confusion of identity.
Past Glories
HAPPY, carefree bus pickets are now back at the grindstone after a glorious week or so of terrifying children and old people, breaking windows, ruining tyres, wrecking fuel systems and trying to maim their colleagues who were not concerned in the strike. • They have lain aside their crowbars in favour of steering wheels and ticket machines,
It seems a pity that the only blot on their roll of honour should have been dropped by the weaker sex. But even the most conscientious pickets are entitled to retire from the combined wrath of a bus-load 'of Cornishwomen. Only men who trained in Blackpool during the war are equipped to deal with that kind of danger.
Psychic Reversing
A REGULATION in the Lorry Driver of the Year P-ICompetition reads: "During tests while reversing, a driver is permitted to open and look out of his driving door." Lucky fellow—he can at least open it In tha work-a-day world, drivers are daily having to reverse through dark archways up to apologies for loading bays by methods that can only be described as psychic. Down in the West Country, for example, a brewery clings tenaciously to medieval suspicions of roadfarers, barring entrance other than through the eye of a needle. With driving mirrors and other detachable projections removed, and ropes and sheets likewise detached to increase clearance from nil to slight, the lone driver reverses hopefully into the gloom with nothing to observe but a collection of locals and small boys gleefully awaiting expensive noises.
The load delivered, the damage surveyed, the driver departs, fortified at least by the consumption of " perks " appropriate to the industry.
Gallant
DESCRIBING a new motor showroom, a Belgian journal says that the workshops and offices are sumptuous, with all the amenities necessary to ensure impeccable service, and that the showrooms are marvellous. The woman responsible Tor the enterprise receives the author's felicitations.