Getting in on the Ground Floor?
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A N enterprising Southend, Essex, estate agent is also the 13.. managing director of a household removals company and it requires no imagination to assess the advantage of knowing who is going to move (or, even, who is likely to move) probably sooner than they know themselves.
Local removers, who recently successfully opposed an application by the firm to add a vehicle to its B licence opined that it was able to have the first bite at the cake. A non-participant it.) the case was heard to say outside afterwards, " He wanted jam on it.
With such a feast of metaphors available, one is tempted to reflect that, in the "affluent society," we all seek something more than a mere ration of daily bread but the goods licensing system has the key to the sweets.
American Version
TMSsturdy enterprise takes my memory back some 25 years HIS a mid-western town in the United States. The typical old western town. Halfway down Main Street was a building with a pram or so in one window, a coffin in the other, and separated by the entrance to a "saloon." All three emporiums were obviously owned, operated and controlled by the same gentleman, who. so the signs said, was known as Jake.
Outside, the headboard "Transport from the cradle to the grave" engaged my interest with its many subtleties. Much amused, I turned to face the two-holstered, .pot-bellied Sheriff who added: "Yes. mister. Jake . . . that's me . . moves 'ern soft, stiff or solid."
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Speak Up!
AFORETASTE of the kind of evidence he will have to listen to was given to the new chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, Gen. Elmslie, when he presided over his first public sitting in Manchester recently. A lady witness, supporting an application by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., complained about how the cost of living had gone up. She told the chairman: "A penny bun no longer costs 2d., you know." Incidentally,. the first words uttered by the new chairman may, if •heeded by future witnesses who appear before him, save them public embarrassment. His first recorded words, said to an official of the Corporation, were "Speak up, please."
Tribunal Gems
OVERHEARD by one of my colleagues at a Transport Tribunal sitting not so long ago—Counsel: "ft is not quite right to say that the sole purpose of the company was to provide transport. Its sole purpose was to make money by providing transport.
The president (Sir Hubert Hull): "I always thought it rum that a man who carries for one customer like Woolworth's is not considered to be a public haulier; but a man who carries for two little greengrocers is."
Aside
IT WAS explained, at the same sitting, but in another appeal, that as well as carrying mattresses there was a possibility that insecticide could be carried as a return load. "That's a very strange mixture," remarked Sir Hubert.
"Not at all," he was assured by Counsel. Whereupon Sir Hubert was heard to say quietly for the benefit of his colleagues Flea powder, I suppose."
Cat Off
APOINT for drivers to remember when using the new Subscriber Trunk Dialling system which is now appearing in telephone kiosks. Give the number you are speaking from hs soon as the call is connected. Many drivers are getting caught by 'these machines, which automatically cut the call off at the expiry of the time paid for. They have no more change.