Bird's Eye View By The Hawk
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Ticket Fiddle
I T is strange how dishonest many otherwise respectable people are over bus fares. The general manager of a municipal undertaking in the north-west was telling me about a woman passenger on one of his services who was found using a return ticket a year after returns had been abolished. The ticket was in " new " condition, and she had got away with it for so long by holding it visible in her hand whenever a conductor approached. He assumed that the ticket had been issued earlier in the journey. It was an inspector who discovered the fraud.
This occurred in a district where it was common practice for conductors to be met with " It's all right, luv. I've got a return. I'll tear it up meself."
Empty Running Preferred
I–I A I2-SEATER which has been ordered experimentally by Nottingham Watch Committee is intended for the city's most exclusive clientele, but will contain none of the usual aids to passenger comfort. Indeed, the corporation have no intention of trying to promote good will or of encouraging passengers to make a second trip. It is a prison van.
At Home at Sea mR. ROGER THORNYCROFT repudiates any suggestion that he pursued scholarship too earnestly in his Balliol days. At Oxford he was a rowing man, and boats of one sort or another have always attracted him. • Nowadays he retreats to his week-end home at Bembridge and, when not market gardening, is yachting. He was a yachtsman of a sterner sort during the war. •
He told Harold Champion, with characteristic modesty, that his most important job in those days was to initiate the inexperienced into the problems of what taps to turn on marine liesels. No doubt he sometimes had to do a little tap-turning imself when running fast motor boats to Sweden for cargoes f ball bearings. Then yachting down the Skagerrack provided brills little known today off the Isle of Wight, "Of course," he said, " our job on the ball-bearing run was ifferent from that of Channel and Western Approach patrols. 'heir business was to find the enemy--ours to avoid him like he plague!"
)n the Films
rila it again. They are making a 12-15-minute film of the irrepressible Brittain family, of Essex Carriers, Ltd., are ompany's activities, to be shown at a local event. The bearded :ddie Barber, looking every inch the part, is the producer. 4ichael Brittain is camera operator. He owns the camera.
?ailing Sight
y/HEN hovering over the recent Royal garden party attended VV by Mr. and Mrs, F. J. Speight, my justly acclaimed eyeight failed me and I did not notice Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bond mong the thousands present. If in the future you see a bird of ray wearing spectacles, don't shoot. I am contrite.
:oach to the Palace
NCIDENTALLY, the kindness of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., Scout Motor Services, Ltd., and thers, enabled five veterans of the Boer War to attend a Buckigham Palace garden party without financial worry.
The veterans, the youngest of whom was 80, could not afford be expense. A Preston solicitor heard of their plight and contriuted £5. Then various "Old Comrades'" bodies made coritributins. Ribble and their associated companies in the "Gay Iostess" enterprise then offered to carry the men free of barge and their worries were over.