Belt And Braces Policy

The time when general haulage lorries were run for seven years and contract vehicles for five years have passed in Western British Road Services Ltd. Extended use has been shown......

England Expects

Science is a wonderful thing. It enables anyone who thinks bridges are cissy to drop a vel icle with unerring accuracy in the middle of a river. Aided originally by no less a......

Parcels Puzzles

A man was described in The Daily Telegraph as - aged 5ft 9in tall" and born on "May 1 /8, 1951." What he did on the other 7 /Eiths is unknown. This is the kind of puzzle that......

Over The Wall

The three posters, of which nearly 60,000 copies were distributed by the Road Haulage Association's Vehicle Security Committee as part of Hands Off Our Freight Week, were the......

Just Rewards

Thirty-six schoolgirls who made an educational tour by rail to Galway left the train in such spotless condition that CIE, the Irish state transport undertaking, offered their......

Rash Quest

"Residents are being asked to nominate the ugliest spots in East Sussex,'' a newspaper reports. My bride would gladly have co-operated in any similar exercise in London when I......

Dirty Tricks

News that Russian road-going vehicles will make their first appearance at the Commercial Motor Show at Birmingham next month opens up mind-boggling possibilities. It conjures up......

No-wear Wheels

Until the other day I thought Tralee's only claim to fame was the rose whose beauty was so fervently extolled by the late John McCormack. I now learn that the old girl is having......

Poetic Justice

"That's Life,' the BBC television programme, has established a cult of complaining in verse. It has been followed by a girl who went to the Bob Dylan concert at Blackbushe and......