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A BUBBLE chamber sounds kid's stuff. It isn't. It's 35 tons of -1-1 equipment, 18 ft. wide and 47 ft. long, used to photograph atomic particles in nuclear fission experiments. And hauliers Annis and Co. Ltd. had the unenviable task of transporting it 200 miles to Southampton after it had been lent to Harwell by France. Frank Annis, managing director of the Hayes firm, said: "It's the biggest and most valuable thing I have ever transported. It's worth nearly Lim. and has cost me £450 in additional insurance". Headache enough, you'll agree. But it wasn't the haul that made Mr. Antis hot under the collar; it was the treatment of it by local newspapers along the way. "Whick", says he, "in a typically Americanized manner, wrote of 'trails of chaos and destruction' and all that sort of humbug.. . We fail to see why the road transport industry should be presented in a very unfavourable light consequent upon lurid and grossly exaggerated accounts in local newspapers...."