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BIRD'S EYE VIEW
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By the Haw::
e Horses For the second week running
shire Whitbread horses—but this time they are under [Janet of a Dennis Pax six-wheeler (above) which was rst British freight vehicle to go through the Mont tunnel on Wednesday. The vehicle, carrying 10,000 s of Whitbread strong ale destined for the Britannia in Milan where "British Week" is being held, ql the Channel on a Thoresen Viking ferry. Special Ission was granted by the authorities for the vehicle through because the tunnel is not officially open to it traffic until October 20.
;Ian Praise A civic delegation from
grad, which visited Manchester recently, had been y impressed by the efficiency of the city's cleansing tment and its vehicles, said the Lord Mayor, Ald.
Langton. at the MCCD annual inspection last day. In the maintenance competition for the third last) inspection of 1964-5, there was a tie for first between 15 drivers. One of them, Mr. E. Culloden, aking his 4Ist award in the series. tong the guests who were running expert eyes over potless leaders of the 200-strong fleet on parade I :d Mr. J. L. Wilkinson, managing director of Shelvoke 3rewry Ltd., and Mr. Gilbert Pither, head of the northern organization. Three drivers tied in the tment's annual championship. They were Mr. A. E. is, champion for the past two years, Mr. T. Williams dr. H. Wright.
:h Your Specs We received a phone call the
day from a Mr. Rowe of Hovis Ltd., Rotherham. I : "Garage mechanics probably do not realize that if Louch the frames of their spectacles with brake fluid eir hands, the frames will rot." Apparently Mr. has learnt this through bitter experience:
he Ball Stale statistics can be a ilist's nightmare and the transport industry provides icularly bad example. Annual reports six months in s are bad enough. Comparisons with the previous cover a span of 21 years. A bit dated in this space
at a change to attend an a.g.m, and be presented an account of income and expenditure for the year g September 30 on October 1! So full marks to the port Studies Society, University of London, for doing Jus.. mat at its meeting last Friday evening. with £116 in the kitty in the bargain.
There was an obvious enthusiasm amongst members, a feature noted approvingly by the newly elected president, Mr. T. W. H. Gailey, chairman of the Tilling Association. And George Wilmot, lecturer in transport studies at the extra mural department of the University, reported that there were more students' applications than they could deal with. Altogether a thriving study centre, So, why not sortie provincial study centres? There will be snags, no doubt—but there will also be latent enthusiasm if rightly channelled.
Clock Watcher A leader of industry who out of business hours is apt to keep his eye on the clock is Mr. E. R. Pochin, managing director of Ferodo Ltd., who last month completed 40 years with the company. When a man has devoted most of that time to problems connected with stopping things, it is hardly surprising if he chooses as a relaxation the restoration of movement. In his case it is the restoration of antique timepieces,
Mr. Pochin started with Ferodo as a sales assistant, spent most of the '30s on the London staff, and returned to Chapel-en-le-Frith some months before the outbreak of war. As a workshops.,officer with the old RASC (now the Royal Corps of Transport) he operated in the Western Desert from 1940 onwards.
The Ferodo chief recalls that he nearly struck trouble when he was discovered to have been fitting Ford vehicles with Bedford shackle bushes, but it turned out that the Pochin hybrids were the only vehicles not to break up in the arduous conditions encountered during action by the 7th Armoured Division. Since his return to civilian life he has been successively replacement sales manager, home sales manager, home sales director and managing director.
Mr. Pochin at work.