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Bird's Eye View By The Hawk
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Lend Me a Tenner
THE sad tale of a lorry driver who could not afford to go bankrupt came to light at Redditch County Court last week when debts of £300 were revealed. But at least he had the sympathy of the judge who commented: "It always strikes me as an anomaly that a man who cannot pay his debts has to pay £.10 to go bankrupt. I have done my best to have the position put right, and no doubt one day it will be."
On reflection, perhaps this is one more item which should be included in operating costs.
Fast Work
THE Newcastle advocate, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, certainly moves around the country at speed. An example of this was a day last week when, in the morning, he appeared before the Northern Licensing Authority at Newcastle representing Siddle C. Cook, Ltd. Whilst I am not quite certain what time he left the inquiry, it is safe to assume that, with the hearing commencing at 10.30 a.m., he would not have got away from Newcastle much before noon. At six o'clock the same evening he was sipping tea at the Royal Society of Arts lecture theatre, in London, preparatory to giving a lecture to members of the Industrial Transport Association. The next morning, at 8 a.m., he was back at his desk in Newcastle,
Mr. Wardlaw who, if there happens to be a landslide towards Liberalism at the next election, could well be a Commons transport spokesman (he is to be Liberal candidate in South al2
Shields) was giving his third talk to the I.T.A. in London. His lecture, "Some Aspects of the Law of Inland Transport," was enthusiastically received and Mr. Wardlaw was keenly questioned by members for well over an hour afterwards.
After his visit to the Bristol court this week, only one traffic area will remain for him to appear in, and that is the South-east.
Doubling Up
IWAS particularly impressed by the way Mr. Donald Stokes (S.M.M.T. president and Leyland sales director) said, before the opening of the Amsterdam Show: "My own organization, the Leyland Group, plans to double its present assembly capacity, a sign of the growth of industry in the Netherlands. Many of these vehicles will also be exported to the other Common Market countries."
No idle boast this; Mr. Stokes has long been an advocate of the Common Market. In fact, he remarked: "We, in the British motor industry, await the day when we are in your Common Market, and make it part of our first aim to double our commercial-vehicle sales in the Netherlands. We hope we will be in the Market by the end of the year."
For and Against
TT was interesting to hear, at the aluminium symposium (see Ipages_ 165-168) in London, that Mr. S. C. Vince of the B.E.T. was not a wholehearted supporter of aluminium for bus bodies, and found it difficult to get maintenance staff able to work with the material. On the other hand, Mr. M. T. Smith of West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd. (part of the Tilling Group), came out as a very strong supporter and said his company had not had any difficulty in finding staff able to handle repairs to aluminium bodies,