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Women! Know your place
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If you can't find a man, wartime employers were told, look for a `husky' Noman. Find out more in the Road Transport Group blogosphere.
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THIS WEEK'S NEWS on Roadtransport.coin includes the first reports on the London low-emission zone (LEZ) do operators know enough about it, will it make life difficult for businesses, arid will it increase new truck sales? For links to all the latest news, go to www. roadtransport.com/lei And don'i forget you can always find the latest news at 'Today in Road Transport' on the Road Transport Blog (www. roadtransport.conilblogs).
Elsewhere on the blogs,Oliver Dixon's World Trucks Blog is covering the latest developments in truck and van manufacturing, including a reason why Volvo might not be too disappointed that some of its workers are about to go on strike, and the news that Tata surely the most heavily publicised automotive firm in the world at the moment is about to introduce a light truck to the US market.
BigLorryBlog's reliably rum collection courtesy of Brian Weatherley this week includes a Turkish Volvo FH13 with 'Lake pipes' (ask your hotrodding uncle), a logging truck designed by Bugatti and an Andover Trailers rig from Brit European Transport which is transporting the British Army's 7,277 new MAN trucks between manufacturer, bodybuilder and Jser.There's also the rather fineooking tipper pictured above.
He also has a fascinating entry on New York-based B rockway. a truck manufacturer whose last model was the marvellously named'Huskiteer'after which, as Brian says, it took the "long. one-way trip to Palookaville..."
Will Shiers' Truck & Van Blog includes a splendid selection of oddball Russian vehicles such as a Moskvich/Escort van hybrid, a Skoda pickup with a sleeper pod and the world's ugliest car.
But the jewel in the crown this week comes from the July 1943 issue of Mass Transportation Magazine. It's a 'Guide to Hiring Women', for firms suffering wartime personnel shortages: Employers are told:"General experience indicates that 'husky' girlsthose who are just a little on the heavy side are more even-tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters...
-Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day.You have to make some allowances for feminine psychology."
Read more (if you dare) at the Truck ci'r Van Biog.
• You can find direct links to all the stories mentioned at CM's own web page, www. roadtranspori.comicnz