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3ird's eye view by the Hawk
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-many, when a Minister visits a factory s given a bright and shiny briefing about company by the management and a .ty standard blurb by the workers about onalization. But a much travelled retary of State for Trade and Industry :Wed different advice in Yorkshire :ntly.
ohn Davies was paying a visit to the nstrong shock absorber factory in York after talking with management and Moyees about industrial relations he ; advised by two shop stewards to "buy le shares in this firm, it's going places". 'erhaps he did, because there was a rise 2fp in the Armstrong shares next day, . Mr Davies seemed impressed with his t.
Blessed relief
d Hope's little magazine Kingpin usually some hilarious stories in it, but as nbers of the club will know, most of n would be unprintable in a generalulation journal like CM. Pity. However, e is a very quotable piece which I can te from the end of an article about tough ;tralian road-train trunking in the latest e of Kingpin. It goes like this:— IL truckie stood at the pearly gates, his face was worn and old, Ie meekly asked the Man of Fate for admission to the Fold.
What have you done," St Peter asked, "to seek admission here?"
I was the driver of a Mack road-train for many, many a year."
'he gates swung open sharply as St Peter touched the bell.
Come in, my boy, and take a harp, you've had enough of hell."
This happy breed
ave just finished reading a fascinating k written for enthusiasts by an enthusiast 4aurice A. Kelly, whose volume The rtype Steam Road Waggon will surely Dine the definitive work on this odd ich of the steam transport family.
/vertypes were so called because of their .ne-over-boiler arrangement, which sod them to resemble the traction engine vhich they were so closely related. The inishing thing about them, as Mr Kelly fits with rare candour for a dedicated iusiast, is that they were used for so ;--from 1898 to 1934. They needed two 1 to operate effectively, they had to stop at least once every 20 miles to take on water, they were out of action for at least one day a week for maintenance, and the engine took up an enormous amount of the available space.
He quotes from a Commercial Motor coal consumption test of a Mann's Patent wagon hi April 1923. With a payload of 6 tons on a hilly Yorkshire route it used 120 gallons of water and over 1.5cwt of coal in 22 miles! Coal consumption was 13.39 miles per ewt and water 5.5 gal per mile.
The book traces the development of the overtype machine and then provides lavishly illustrated chapters devoted to each of the 16 principal makes, plus some information about performance trials and foreign wagons. In most cases it lists every known example produced, with its serial number and original purchaser. It is a big book, 8-in. x 1 1 fin., and although it costs £3.98 net my guess is that it will find plenty of purchasers. The publishers are Goose and Son of Norwich.
• Bus huddle
There never seems to have been such a year for vintage gatherings, to judge by my post. I seem to be carrying news every other week of some rally or run or cavalcade to be held this summer, and the HC VC run to Brighton last weekend drew what must have been a record crowd, and a record number of "new" veterans.
May 23 should see another bumper outing. The London Bus Preservation Group is planning "the largest gathering ever held of historic buses" on the South Bank Car Park, next to London's Festival Hall, starting at 11 am. There'll also be vintage and veteran commercials and cars, and a flea market for those who want to browse through transport antiquaria, including old books.
• Offers?
Readers and UK truck manufacturers remark from time to time on the preponderance of foreign vehicles among CA/Fs road tests in recent years; Tony Wilding's twelvemonth review in this issue confirms the difficulty of getting enough British vehicles for test. So it's not an inappropriate moment, perhaps, to mention that Tony tells me he's just been offered no fewer than 10 Mercedes to test