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Leyland calls the tune
.YLAND VEHICLES brass nd's two-week concert tour of pan last "summer" may have no little for the sale of vehicles t it has boosted exports of itish musical instruments. This 3cis me to suggest that Boosey d Hawkes, whose sales of inruments to Japan have ,ubled, might send a band to Dmote Leyland exports.
It might be desirable first to ange a few Leyland model mes. The Tuba 32-tonner, th storage for two dozen ban butties in its commodious haust, and with its plump, pulting tone, might go over well. attractive feature is a crumb[ease valve, use of which events the driver from choking ion drawing in breath.
Then there is the Leyland Cor rikealite, with its searing pitch id frantic Dizzy Gillespiean fin:ring, which should have an actric effect on geishas.
And what Japanese could resthe full-bodied strains of the yland Cornet (a rework of the )met by a local printer)?
The Trombone, with its retracble chassis for easy concealent under the kimono and deft tensibility to trip up the ignont foreigner, is noted for its hr-raising slides on full braking id should be popular on skiDpes. With such a vehicle the ipanese might strike gold, ver, bronze, copper, lead and uminium in the snow at the ixt Olympics. mongers, toastmasters, zoo keepers and miners," The Daily Telegraph reports.
Workhouse masters qualify for these concessions only at Christmas whereas toastmasters are at risk all the year. I can, however, recall a dinner of what was the Traders' Road Transport Association at which the principal speaker, a noble member of the Government, was in greater need of protective clothing than the toastmaster despite his additional role of zoo keeper.