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Joe Moore, chairman of the Metropolitan and South Eastern area of the RHA, and managing director of Stockley Transport and four other companies, made his television debut last Friday. Joe took second place in the Eldonian driving championships at the Horse of the Year Show at Wembley, with his Dartmoor ponies Dandy and Don pulling his not inconsiderable weight in a four-wheeled dogcart. But alas, Joe had to finish in second place only seconds behind the winner. In the nicest possible way he queried the clock and it was no consolation to him to be told on Sunday that the clock had gone wrong during his round, thus depriving him of winning the championship as he did in 1972 and 1973.
Joe, who is Chef d'Equipe of the British Four-in-Hand driving team, has become used to accepting judges' or majority decisions. For example, he tells me that when he suggested to the RHA that with five companies in membership he should have five votes, the Association "fell about," When eventually they recovered their poise they courteously but firmly told him that he was entitled to only one vote.
With the courtesy which he demonstrated on the TV screen last week, when be doffed his bowler and smiled at the judges' decision, Joe gave the RHA a metaphorical bowler doffing and said : 'One vote, one company" and then took four of his companies out of membership! difficulty of getting over to passengers the effects of a county council's refusal to give support, in time for the public to realise the implications and put their views to the authorities
When he opened the new NBC workshops and offices at Luton recently, Neil Carmichael again made it clear that the DoE was going to "look favourably" on 1976/77 bus revenue support proposals from areas trying to maintain basic services—and that this would involve switching resources from conurbations to non-mctropolitan counties. Which, if it were picked up by the London-area weeklies, would not fall as sweet music upon the public's ear.