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Bird's Eye View By The Hawk
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All Right Jack?
T RECOMMEND for the attention of the executive committee I of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition the cartoon to the right of these words. The many hauliers and C licensees who are not on that committee but who will nevertheless be entering for the competition will undoubtedly have not the faintest idea of what I am talking about.
All I must say is that the committee 'Were last week approving the revised rules for the Safest Cab contest, which is held at the natiottal final. And I am not necessarily thinking of the cab.
Treasured Relics
Oo my left, several old steam locomotives and Royal railway carriages, including a most luxurious padded affair used by Queen Victoria, and in the centre and to my right, a vast selection of ancient public service vehicles ranging from horse buses and stage coaches to " garden-seat " omnibuses, old double-deckers and trams.
This was the scene that greeted me when I wandered into a section of the National Transport Museum in Triangle Place, Clapham Park Road, London, which opened recently and is the first permanent exhibition in this country devoted entirely to the history of public transport by road, rail and water.
What The Hawk Saw
TIIE museum has been established by the British Transport Commission for the preservation and display of a large selection of their historical treasures, but I gather that I should not have seen the static display, as several of the 50-odd vehicles are not yet assembled, and this section will not be ready for viewing until a "much later late."
. However, the rest of the exhibition is most interesting and well worth a visit for it houses models, pictures, maps, crests, tickets, timetables, uniform buttons, badges, posters and many other small items tracing the evolution of transport through two centuries.
Line Abreast
IT seems to my biased eyes that the London-Birmingham motorway (MI) is much more heavily used these days by commercial vehicles—particularly goods vehicles—than. when a opened. So much for the pessimists who gloomily (and :urately) forecast only a trickle of lorries. most of which
d never stand up to it anyway.
vitnessed, incidentally, the other day for the first time that ornenon sometimes complained about of three heavies, line ist, in the act of overtaking. I hereby report that I do not he idea. I frankly think it is unwise of the driver who is
e fast lane not to wait behind the overtaking lorry in the e lane.
Iwever, I must also report that the drivers concerned 1.d out the manceuvre expeditiously (all were back in the ide lane within half a minute) and safely. It happened on a straight stretch, with tio other vehicles less than a mile tormemories
( peculiar memory retained, from my MI jaunt last week. two vivid impressions. One was of an incredibly long line .ange-liveried London Brick Co., Ltd„ lorries -returning at dusk. I gave up counting at 25. There they were, icably driven, each a reasonable distance from the other, I them forming a good advertisement for heavies on ways.
.t other impression was of a scarlet Midland Red motorway having to flash its headlights at an offending Jaguar would not either accelerate or move out of the fast lane. .ar driver obviously had not seen the coach approaching. the dispatch with which he moved to the centre lane, I it safe to report him as surprised."