Jam, pie and more baked beans
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ALBERT BOOTH, Labour's spokesman on transport, rose to rhetorical heights when, over his still-warm body, the House of Commons voted to increase the maximum weight of lorries to 38 tonnes. Safeguards promised by David Howell, Transport Secretary, did not fool him. They were, he said, pie in the sky and jam tomorrow. But he had the good taste not to draw a red herring through the jam.
A Mr Kipling, who has an exceedingly good telescope, has since reported sightings of unidentified flying jam tarts in the night sky over Birmingham.
To a member of a celebrated grocery family, heavier lorries were transports of gastronomic delight that would confer on Britain the inestimable blessing of more and more baked beans.
The feast was slightly soured by an MP who, according to a ,BBC reporter, condemned the increase in the length of lorries 'at the cab end." He must have been the Irish building worker who complained that a plank was too short one end.