Riding On Air To The Motor Show

IT WILL almost be worthwhile to visit the Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre just to ride on the new Maglev passenger shuttle. This comprises two elevated parallel......

Road Transport Is Women's Work

THE MALE chauvinist who tried to persuade me that Eve was created from the jaw bone of an ass should remember that road transport is increasingly becoming women's work. Sharon......

Cheap Parts Put The Stopper On Stops

THE LATEST horror stories about inferior replacement parts come from Clayton Dewandre. They concern brake compressors which, when they fail, put a stop to stopping power. One......

A Smashing Time In A Vegetable Market

A POLTERGEIST took possession of a fork-lift truck and got a London vegetablemarket porter the sack. The mischievous truck's forks tore open containers of tomatoes, mushrooms......

Sponsor A Fishplate For Posterity

DO YOU nurture a secret desire to sponsor nuts and bolts (£1 each), readymix (£5 a foot), fishplates (£8 each), sleepers (£10 each) or poles (£50 each)? Well, here's your big......

Hauliers Cared For Staff 70 Years Ago

BACK in 1914, as a war that was to reshape the world was beginning, 12 cottages were built in Barnet, Herts, to house hauliers' needy former employees. The benefactors, Sutton......

A Million Pictures For The Asking

DO YOU REMEMBER F. Gordon Crosby's superb paintings and drawings of racing cars hurtling around Brooklands and raising clouds of choking dust in early road races? They are among......