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No Bobs For This Job
VISIONS of bare-kneed, shivering octogenarians were conjured up by the announcement that Lex Wilkinson Expressline had done Its good deed for the day by "delivering more than......
Where Buck Stops, Communication Starts
TOM KING, the Employment Secretary, professes to believe that senior managers display above their desks a notice, "The buck stops here." But, he says, even this is not enough.......
Bus Operators To Take To Rail?
THE USE of British Rail tracks by trains run by private operators has been suggested by Professor David Starkie in a report issued by the Institute of Economic Affairs. There......
Transport Man On The Route To The Loot
HAVING made himself a millionaire in 13 years in road transport, Ian Sayer is now showing the railways how to do it. He has joined the board of City Link Transport Holdings, the......
Think Of A Number And Deduct 63
ONE MIGHT reasonably assume that the first ERF built 51 years ago was No 1. It wasn't. It was No 63, which happened to be the age of E. R. Foden, the founder of the business.......
Aspro Cures Perkins Pains
PERKINS Engines is taking ASPRO to cure production headaches. This is the acronym for an assembly programming system, which by all accounts is quite a pill and is allied to a......