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If Only The Po Was Like Nc
IF LETTERS were sorted by the Post Office as efficiently as parcels are by National Carriers at Lawley Street, Birmingham, where one of the world's most advanced electronically......
Middlewich Cuckoo?
WHILE most manufacturers are battening down the hatches, ERF has shown great courage in opening a new £1.5m engineering research and design centre at Middlewich. One of its......
A Thousand Times, Huntly
CHAMPAGNE in paper cups helped a coachload of Scottish holidaymakers to forget the British summer when Bernard Cotter, of Cotters Tours Ltd, Glasgow, saw them off on a journey......
Jim Fixes Seven-year-old Splash
THE omnipotent Jim fixed the launch of Townsend Thorsen's third new ferry ship, Pride of Free Enterprise (8200 tons), in Germany for a seven-year-old girl. When I was seven......
West Indies Almost Stumped
THE BEAUTY of the English countryside has to compete with television for the attention of the West Indies cricket team on its 14-week 6500 mile tour of the United Kingdom. The......
The Trapper Is Trapped
DURHAM police have been testing the new DATAC speedchecking system, which its manufacturer, Fidus Controls Ltd, claims is better than existing apparatus and is accurate to less......