No Wonder It Ran Better
Page 40
Page 41
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
T AM assured that the following is the truth, the whole truth -Iand nothing but the truth: a trunk driver was instructed to take his articulated vehicle to the firm's London depot, a journey of about 200 miles. On arrival there, the foreman mechanic questioned him about the performance of the vehicle and received the following reply: "I've never had a truck like it; it romped up hills in top gear, where I usually have to drop down to second."
• At that moment there was a yell from the rear of the vehicle, " The b ....thing's empty."
Small-bus Goods Vehicle
x.)1,1E-EN two ladies, one a barrister who must of course be VV nameless, and the other Miss M. K. Toils, a director of Pam-lei-aft, Ltd., New Malden, Surrey, specialists in the transport of film makers' equipment (and, incidentally, the hiring of such "props" as armoured vehicles, tanks and power boats) both told Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, in quite forthright terms what they thought the taw on the use of small buses as goods vehicles was . .. or should be . . . one almost felt that the result was a foregone conclusion.
Wilson Singer, Ltd., of Hammersmith, W.6, also specialists in the same field, claimed that it was legal to use such a vehicle, either by removing the seats or by fitting camera. (-7. stands on the bonnet and roof, for the technicians a equipment. They had, they said, been prosecuted but vi by an award of 10 guineas costs against the !police.
Mr. Macdonald preferred Miss Tofts' assertion such adaptation made it a goods vehicle, which was had licensed her vehicles of the same design, He r B licence for the three Singer vehicles.
Public Rel■
I T was one of those building sites with observation f -I-for passers-by to watch the mass of modern machin to erect a modern skyscraper, hut it was a heavy goo!
he show. His skill in coaxing a large articulated very narrow section of the building site had the of observers gazing in open-mouthed admiration. exchanges had to be seen to be believed.
ronderful job of public relationship rests with lorry i how excellently it is so frequently carried out.
rime Back
this year, J. Huxley, and Sons, Ltd., of Staines, ne gave an undertaking to Mr. C. J. Macdonald, lolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, that if he their B licence conditions by equalizing them for they would not make any further applications to they returned, asking to vary the conditions of an -unabout from 50 to 150 miles. A director told laid that the vehicle had been overlooked in the derations.
ing two witnesses in support of the wider radius and application, Mr. Macdonald observed: "I see from heading that you' use the slogan • Huxleys again' point to these proceedings."
porter
musual for the transport people whose names appear ew Year Honours List to include a lady. That owever, this week with Mrs. Edith Heymann, the sales director of Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd. isible for selling eleetrics and mobile shops all over A welcome and charming transport ambassadress!