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4th June 1965, Page 72
4th June 1965
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Page 72, 4th June 1965 — Slick Scots
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Keywords : Bathgate

THE South Scotland LDOY competition started well and ended well within schedule when the last result went on the board after 51 hours. But what a shock there was for organizer Mr. M. McLeod and his team of officials when it was reported that children had altered some routeing arrows around the public roads section of the event.

The Army, which was doing such a fine job of vehicle control, measurement and other checking, promptly "confined everyone to barracks " while officials made a dash over the six-mile course. All succeeded in following the arrows without any bother: so the all-clear was given, visions of having to re-run the section disappeared, and after a delay of more than half an hour because of the false alarm, the competition resumed its smooth progress.

It was a good road course, starting from the BMC factory at Bathgate where the main part of the programme was staged. The few miles contained most of the hazards that a commercial driver should expect to meet—narrow roads, wooded and undulating just outside the town, and a sharp, twisting drop containing a vicious 90 left-hander into the town.

Several competitors had penalty-free performances in the road section, while Class H winner, A. Hogg (Scottish Brewers) had a clean card for this and the highway code tests. In Class D, winner S. Irvine (SPD Ltd.) dropped only one point (on the questions) and ultimately had the lowest total, 81 points, of the day. There was not a contest between the class winners.

In Irvine's class another competitor actually led with a clean card after the first two tests, but lost 386 marks when it came to reversing into the loading bay, kerb parking and width judgment. In Class E(2) there were seven starters. Two had clean cards for two rounds, while a third had only five penalty points. All lost heavily on manceuvring, however, and dropped to the last three positions.

There was not much confidence behind John Dickie's Regent Oil articulated tanker in Class F(2). At the age of 45 he had 14 years' commercial driving from Ayr behind him, but no previous competitive experience to pit against the other six entrants, all of whom were driving BRS Parcels vans from Glasgow. Yet Dickie won by 25 points from J. Campbell, whose excellent positional driving could not erase the effects of heavy penalties on the road course.

BRS versus British Railways was the

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Organisations: Army
Locations: Glasgow

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