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Trainee driving instructor Arsenal Whittock has been told by BSM

2nd May 2002, Page 26
2nd May 2002
Page 26
Page 26, 2nd May 2002 — Trainee driving instructor Arsenal Whittock has been told by BSM
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that he cannot qualify because his stammer prevents him from shouting "stop". Whittock, who, like Pop Idol's Gareth Gates, has employed a breathing coach to help overcome his disability, says he can see the funny side of the story: "They were suggesting that by the time I said `Iett' the driver would have missed the turning.'

Spluttering engine?

Coughing sounds? Noises under the bonnet? Boob that'll be your flange bearing—or possibly your grommet shaft retainer that's loose. Or possibly it's animals making a home on your radiator, if the experience of Hyundai service manager Brian Hardie is anything to go by. He was more than a little surprised when he lifted the bonnet of an otherwise ordinary looking Hyundai Atoz to find a small dog sitting an the engine.

Hardie says the dog was probably being chased and then hid under the car, wedging itself In the engine compartment before ending up on top of the engine bay. And the happy ending to this shaggy dog story is that the car's owner has decided to adopt the fortunate hound, christening it, inevitably, Lucky.

Clowns_ they're not quite right are they9 You always suspect that behind that painted-on smile andlolly red nose there lies a desperately tragic figure ruined by booze and depression. In fact ever since the Stephen King novel /f they've had a reputation close to that of serial axe murderers. So it's no surprise to learn that they've been up to their old tricks again in a road accident on the A3M in Hampshire, A motorist was lucky to escape without injury after a 3ft-high clown's head fell off a trailer and

into the path of oncoming traffic. Thankfully no-one was hurt in the accident, but there's one more person out there scarred for !We by that big grinning face and shiny red nose,

Congratulations to Natalie Elliott from Seaford who has decided to ditch her inherited name of turfman. instead Natalie stumped up the forty quid it

costs to change your name by deed poll and opted for the racier surname of her favourite car, Subaru Impreza. She decided to drop tuffman because it was the butt of jokes at school Where she was known as 'bum fluff. Rumour has it that even our own dearly beloved editor is thinking of changing his name to that of his favourite truck. So step forward the new improved Brian Scania-R144-460hpTopline!


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