BIG HUSH-HUSH JOB
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Word has reached The Hawk that a Birmingham haulage firm has just completed a top-secret Whitehall assignment. Hallett Silbermann (Birmingham) was recruited to transport the famous wrought-iron gates which hang at the entrance to Downing Street. The gates had to be taken for specialist repair recently after a car smashed into them.
When the work had been done the haulage company returned the very important cargo, but kept mum about where the gates were repaired. "We were given strict instructions not to reveal the location of the gates while they were being repaired," explains managing director Paul Jolly. "We were approached because we specialise in heavy lift ing. We used a 26-tonne Dal with a rear-mounted Atlas crane to take the repaired gates back to Downing Street."
The gates were damaged when a man from Essex careered into them, injuring mother-of-three Ursula Webster. Mrs Webster broke her leg as she bravely protected her three boys, aged three, six and eight. She had originally been given permission to walk up to the Prime Minister's residence because she shares a similar address: 10 Downing Place, Livingston, New Jersey, USA.