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Premium on Road Safety
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CANNOT Mr. Marples put a bit of friendly pressure on k--ihis colleague, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, who, as Minister of Aviation, is proposing to sting the organizers of the Croydon round for the Lorry Driver of the Year title 40 guineas to hire part (a very small part, at that) of the nowdisused Croydon Airport on July 23 when they stage the contest?
I don't care which way it is wrapped up—this still spells to me the placing of a premium upon road safety. It has proved difficult enough -over the years to organize a London round without this extra burden on the organizers. These contests are not run to make a profit. Forty guineas might amount to a " give-away " price in a Ministry's astronomical accounts, but is a major problem to a contest such as this.
The amount the Ministry of Aviation originally wanted was 75 guineas—an impossible figure—but energetic representations have pared it to the present figure. Let's have a bit of public-spiritedness from the airborne division of the Civil Service and the news that they'll donate the airport free. After al it is not in commercial use
Six Next Year?
DEMAND for entries has far outstripped the capacity anti the organizers have. at 110 allowed what I would consider the maximum they can handle I wouldn't be in the least surprised if next year there were as many as 400 entries. To
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accommodate these, probably six contests would be necessary. But who would run them, and where would they be staged? One thought is on Army Barracks parade grounds (War Office permitting). And they might at that, because they are sufficiently interested to sponsor entries in the competition.
Keep Off The Grass
A WORD of warning to contestants at Croydon. If you rA.stray on to the grass from the 700-ft. by 400-ft. strip of tarmac which 40 guineas can hire, you will be immediately court-martialled. cashiered, and chased by angry farmers.
The very commercial-minded Ministry has already let out the grazing rights!
The End
r HEAR that the " Mulliner " has now been dropped from L the title of the bus body manufacturing side of Marshall vlotor Bodies, Ltd., who bought the Mulliner manufacturing ights some two years ago. The appropriate activities are now :arried out by the "Omnibuses Division" of Marshall's.
Whilst I can appreciate that the fast-expanding Marshall vganization has been forced, through volume of work, to bus rationalize, I cannot help feeling a tiny pang of regret it the passing from the p.s.v. scene of the Mulliner name.
4ny Objections ?
A LADY from Brixton has applied to substitute a furniture rk van for her A-licensed box van. Among the commodities he carries arc animals and reptiles.
No snake-charming in court, please.
Well Worth While
ORDERS were good at the Construction Equipment Exhibition, Crystal Palace, which closed last Saturday. • Nithin a week, R, Cripps and Co., Ltd., Nottingham, had taken n-clers for 35 Scammell dumpers, including some for the new -fimalayan six-wheeler, whilst Richard Thomas and Baldwins, -td., ordered £100,000 of Michigan tractor shovels for handling naterials at their new Spencer works, Lianwern.
Another exhibit that received much notice was the Northfield -77 dumper. Three Common Market country representatives letween them ordered four.