Lorries Go To The Wall

NINETEEN OUT of every 100 goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross were laid up during the weeks in 1979 when the Department of . Transport conducted surveys of road goods......

Update Those Cliches

A COLUMNIST in The Financial Times complains that idiomatic English has failed to develop. Instead of "it never rains but it pours" to mean all or nothing at all, he offers the......

Going Round In Cycles

I WAS intrigued by an Eastern Region internal memo which said: "With the introduction of HSTs to the Up and Down Hull Executive trains . . . there will be a loss of facility in......

Seen A Flasher? Don't Panic!

DRIVERS who harrass pedestrians on pelican crossings by revving their engines have caused some people to lose confidence in the crossings, says the Department of Transport. This......

Volvo's Liquid Asset

ANTHONY LAU, a repair mechanic with ability clearly beyond his present occupation, has been awarded about £9,500 by Volvo in Sweden for redesigning equipment for dispensing......

Going Loco On Watercress

IS plastics watercress to added to rubber lettuce in r way snacks? Why else shoul plastics unit manufacturer for the costly transport of a lo motive from a scrapyard South Wales......