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Penny Bazaar DmoRE is a name that I ate with London taxis, were built in the former Johnston factory in Paisley 932 and then in London. )m reminded, there were eardmore artics,
factured in London by more Multiwheelers from Intl' 1932 and afterwards ltiwheelers of Harrow. 130 model of a tractor for 'loads has been unearthed rld maltings in East Anglia Baldwin, the noted ■ art historian. Motor
; apprentices in Coventry, accustomed to working on of the most advanced lorry -ì Europe, are restoring it y a Marks and Spencer Bazaar — a children's arland — on charity tours Mout the country.
ler they will revive a few Ties for mature citizens.
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SH prospective bus ctor in Birmingham during 39-45 war decided before I completed three days' g that the job was not for nder the Essential Works he had to submit a written ation to resign for eration by a Ministry of r officer.
)Id Tommy Hayes, inel manager for the Jivision, that he wanted lb )ecause he could not read e. He claimed that other )ctive employees had I him with the form of Mon for the job and with Jcation test.
ing in Fare, the West ids Passenger Transport ive's newspaper, Tommy that he handed the man a
form to fill up and retired 3h. The trainee completed required details unaided ye his reason for wishing
to resign: "I cannot read or rite."
He received much the same answer as the young Irish soldier who wrote to his widowed mother to ask her to sell the pig and buy him out of the army: "Pig's dead. Soldier on,"
Coach drivers have better manners
THE RECENT spate of coach accidents and the attendant bad publicity reflect unfairly on drivers, some of whom, by skill and courage, prevented even worse casualties in crashes not of their making.
The other side of the coin is presented by three observers from Cranfield Institute of Technology, who camped out on a bridge over M1 in Bedfordshire between June 25 and July 13, 1979, checking the behaviour of 100 coach and 1,029 lorry drivers. Their belated report has now been published in Traffic Engineering and Control.
They concluded that coach drivers were better mannered than lorry drivers, who alone indulged in "aggressive communication." Moreover, coach drivers were notably free from guilt in straddling lanes and cutting-in, suggesting social consciousness.
What seems to have worried the observers more than anything was the mania for sitting on the tail of the vehicle in front. In more than half the cases in which this folly was noted the interval was less than half a second, which would have guaranteed mayhem if the leading driver had had to brake heavily.
Tiger returns after 53 years
AFTER many years' service as a Manchester Corporation bus, as a wartime ambulance and a lowly staff canteen at Chorlton Street bus station, a 1930 Leyland Tiger has gone into honourable retirement in Greater Manchester Transport's Museum in Cheetham. It was derelict when it was rescued and the staff of Rochdale Skill Centre rebuilt the body, after which Greater Manchester Transport's craftsmen completed the restoration.
The Tiger is one of three "new" exhibits. Another is a prototype Mancunian doubledecker introduced by Manchester Corporation in 1968 and now refurbished by municipal craftsmen. The third is the first Routemaster to be restored and has been presented by London Transport.
Something to do with subsidy
"IT IS NOT the bus company that is getting an increase in subsidy," said Dr P. J. Welgemoed in the South African Parliament. "The subsidy therefore goes to the passengers. It has never been the case, in terms of the subsidy system supplied in this country, that this subsidy has gone to the bus company.
"I hope I have made this quite clear, because it is not the bus company that receives the subsidy. It is the passenger that receives it."
Now what was he saying about subsidy?
The one that didn't get away
AN RHA member who had been trying to defect to the FTA for some time was inspired by the report of the Czech racing cyclist who, with his family and bike, escaped to Austria in a homemade hot-air balloon.
The haulier constructed a giant kite from GV9 notices that he had received over the past five years and set off on a favourable wind for Tunbridge Wells but was shot down at 57ft over Putney by 104 Battery, Freddie's Horse Artillery.