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The Coal Unloader That Got Away
THE TRANSPORT of a boom section of a coal unloader 80ft long, 34ft high and 25ft wide and weighing 76 tons might be thought to have been a red rag to a picket. Overhead wires,......
Sums By Day, Moonlight At Night
WHO SAYS that wealth has not been redistributed under the Tories? A schoolmaster who qualified as a heavy goods vehicle driver after a week's course claims that he can earn far......
Tax Dodging Is Easy Money
LYNDA CHALKER, Minister for Transport, announced on the same day that almost a quarter of vehicle tax evasions reported by the police last year were not prosecuted, but the last......
Sounds Of Tinkling Glass
SWITZERLAND'S proposal to follow Italy and France in charging for the use of motorways by levying a £10 toll next January has caused a flutter in Pall Mall. The Royal Automobile......
Mystery Of "tacho" Seminar Intrigue
I WAS INTRIGUED by an FTA Press notice headed, "Uses and Abuses of the Tachograph Seminars." How, I asked myself, could anything as innocent as tachograph seminars be abused?......
London Bus Routes Inspire The Muse
LONDON TRANSPORT has influenced several composers. Two bus routes, both serving Chelsea's World's End, have inspired musical works in the past year or so. Route 31 from Camden......