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dewby the Hawk
3mog reaction
ging by some of the replies which the iday Times "smog-man" gets from rators whose vehicles he judges to be ling excessively, transport men are ly scared. He manages to extract mises that vehicles will be taken off the I immediately; that drivers and mechanics be spoken to; some operators register 3rise, most express regret. In fact, this p seems to be playing the part of a "one3 Department of Environment". I am ikly surprised that the operators don't tell to mind his own business — possibly tore colourful language.
however, his efforts should not be wasted. iking through his most recent list of ptures" I see they are almost entirely 3-account operators and therefore seem ly-made clients for the FTA's mainInce scheme.
Farewell
so they say "goodbye" to the West intry. The ITA, which has for many years its headquarters in Weston-super-Mare, Friday packed its bags and headed for idon. The Association, which was nded by the late C. Courtney-Cramp, is ✓ officially housed at the headquarters he CIT where Graham Douglas, the ITA retary, moved into his new office on .sday. Graham's new telephone number )1-580 5216.
M -way service
first purpose-built lorry park in Britain ping up at Carlisle, just off M6. It is deled to take 400 lorries at a time and will ,e first-class security arrangements. It is 3 expected that the park will sell 000 gallons of Dery each week. You must iestly accept this as an authoritative figure ause it was issued by no less a company
n Conoco in their latest house journal and who should know better than Conoco D have won a 20-year contract for fuel plies at the park?
)own at "Spaghetti junctionthings have gone quite as smoothly and residents are testing about the siting of another lorry k. Possibly acting on the old adage that tere's money in muck," Cllr Walter ,rbone is to suggest that, instead, vehicles uld be parked on the side of an abandoned ,age works.
Getting around
lution, it seems, is a worldwide problem. ;t December we featured the Lancashire 5te disposal firm of Thomas Graveson I since then they have been receiving inquiries from all over the world. The most recent were from Japan and Nigeria asking how to dispose of industrial waste in those parts of the world. There's no doubt about it, CM does get about a bit.
• Bollards
There's a new piece of street furniture due to arrive on the market any minute. It is a bollard which, according to the manufacturers, Hills (Patents) Ltd, of Chertsey, is eye-pleasing, weather, rust and corrosion proof, and it has passed all its pre-launching tests with flying colours.
The main feature of the bollard is however, that it is plastic. On the final test run the manufacturers ran a minivan into it to prove that, following the impact, pedestrians standing on the island behind the bollard were not exposed to danger. My photograph shows the bollard at the precise moment of impact and the cheery-looking chap on the other side is either blissfully ignorant of its presence or completely confident of its strength. Either way, both he and the bollard are still intact.