Scots Hilarity
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"THERE was nothing pedestrian about the speeches at the annual 1. dinner of the Institute of Transport's Scottish section last week —even if the Lord Provost did throw in a sly backhander by saying that E. R. L. Fitzpayne was the man "who gets the credit for putting Glasgow on its feet"! The rousing reception for each speaker was certainly well merited, and we were all cheered to hear an advocate (the delightfully titled Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire at Glasgow) suggesting that perhaps we had too much law, and that what we had was in many cases far too complicatedly drafted.
This was a special occasion indeed, with not only the Lord Provost tumbling out hilarious Glaswegian stories but the Institute's president, Dick Farmer, putting himself up as "a lad from London", which went down very well. Still, he did take the precaution of assuring the audience that he was one-quarter pure Scots. He also gave an assurance that he remained "curiously" optimistic about the future for transport in the rather uncertain political climate of the day.
The Lord Provost told us that the first section of the Glasgow Transportation study was now finished, and he hoped to see the main recommendations flowing from the study by the end of the year.