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Stout-hearted gesture
ST] LL on the subject of those stout Edinburgh bus conductresses ... With a gesture of seasonal goodwill they have extended the hand of friendship to Councillor John D. Kidd, the man who accused them of not being as efficient as slim girls.
After days of wordy duelling the conductresses have invited Councillor Kidd to be a guest of honour at their dance next month. A delighted, although slightly bewildered, Councillor Kidd said he had accepted a verbal invitation from representatives of the conductresses. An official invitation would be arriving soon.
-I'm looking forward to the dance," he added. "It was very nice of them to ask me." He promised to dance with as many of the girls as possible—of all shapes and sizes.
The truce has been declared after a television confrontation last week between conductresses and Councillor Kidd, who admitted he had received "a good verbal thrashing" from the stout opposition.
Shades of Hamilton
THE PRIME MINISTER was asked in the Commons recently, by Mr. G. Campbell, Tory MP for Moray and Nairn, whether he would transfer responsibility for the system of licensing of vehicles in Scotland to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Mr. Wilson, despite Mr. Campbell's reminder that the Scottish Secretary of State was responsible for roads and road safety in Scotland, replied that the system of carrier licensing was "an integral element of the Government's transport policy, which takes into account the needs of particular areas, but should be considered for Great Britain as a whole".
So now we know.
Things in Wapping aren't so good, either. I wonder if. ..
Yodel-wee-goo-goo
FIFTY Swiss Babies arc being imported around the turn of the year, for use in the Ministry of Defence. (Cries of "Shame".) What's more, these dynamic diminutives can shift snow drifts at 60 tons an hour! (Confused?) Relax. These babes are tough snow-ploughs, Swiss made, and known as Rolba "Snow Baby" machines.
Did someone say: "Typical, getting kids to do our dirty work!"
Perseverance
PERSEVERANCE is certainly a quality needed by those of us trying to keep in touch with the doings of the Common Market and the apparently endless consultations on the organization of the transport market.
Maybe it is all part of the veto that the 10th general report of the EECC for the year ended March 31 1967, and published in June, should only this month find its way onto my desk in the English version. But we are not really missing very much, unless it is humorous vein. What, for example. is one to make of the extract "the European Parliament adopted on its own initiative a definite position" other than to assume that it was a very risky exercise compared with the non-committed verbiage that had gone before over the past 10 years.
Record long service
DURING the past 12 months 34 members of the staff of Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. reached 40 years service with the company—a record number for any one year. A further 20 employees completed 25 years service. Tribute to their service was paid by the chairman, Mr. R. P. Beddow, when he presented long service awards at a dinner held recently, at which A. J. White, general manager, senior officials of the company and representatives of long service staff from all depots attended. The number of long service personnel on the company now stands at 460, representing nearly one-fifth of the entire staff.
Pour le Merite
A HIGH decoration has been conferred on Monsieur Paul Schweitzer, Chairman, IRU (Section II). He was presented by the Federal German Government with the order Pour le Write, FirstClass, in recognition of his many years of work within the field of international road transport. Monsieur Schweitzer, a Swiss haulier based in Basle, is a former president of the IRU.
Sympathetic hearing
MR. HARRY PIC KTHALL, of Cleator Moor, West Cumberland,, who operates one of the biggest haulage fleets in the county, recently led a deputation of local hauliers to Westminster to lobby MPs for support for struggling economic areas like West Cumberland in the proposed Transport Bill.
Firms represented in the deputation included: H. and L. Haulage, Workington; Edward Fye and Sons, Whitehaven; John Roper, Workington; Colin Lee, Cockermouth; J. W. Graham Ltd., Bassenthwaite; Harry Fearon, Mealsgate; and Duncan Hill, Maryport.
The deputation was received by Mr. Fred Peart, MP for Workington and Minister of Agriculture.
Said Mr. Pickthall afterwards: "We told him the haulage industry as a whole, viewed the White Paper with alarm, and with dismay in West Cumberland. Implementation of the proposals would hamstring the dispatch of freight from this area and add at least £100,000 to transport firms' overall costs, if it does not put a good many out of business."
I gather Mr. Peart listened sympathetically and promised to look into the RHA's points.