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They Shall Not Pass
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NAR. W. P. S. ORMOND, the somewhat astringent chairman IV I. of the Eastern Traffic Commissioners, raised a nice point with Western S.M.T. representatives during the Buckmaster case at Luton last week.
What, he asked, was the precise meaning of the word " pass" on the company's timetables? Quoting an example, he read that an express coach passed a town at 10.38. Was it intended that would-be passengers should be there to cheer it on its way? Was the word used to interest coach travellers in the scenery? Or did it mean that the coach was prepared to set down and pick up passengers at that point?
I rather think Mr. Ormond will arrive at a definition 'in another place."
Snowed Up
FREE-ENTERPRISE road transport's No. 1 adversary, Mr. Ernest Davies, was in a chilly mood when he spoke in the House of Commons last week during a debate on the Bill to raise the British Transport Commission's borrowing powers. He roiled before him a snowball of B.T.C. loans growing ever larger as still more debts piled up with each " sub " from the Exchequer. The alternative, he said, was to abandon hypocrisy and admit that the loans were gifts. The trouble is that he is undoubtedly right.
Frosted Up
BRITAIN'S first motorway has turned out to be literally a frost. The whole of it has been closed because about 100 yd. has bubbled as a result of frost damage. Mr. James Drake, Lancashire's surveyor, said by way of mitigation that the carriageways and verges had been laid during bad weather.
which had by no means improved since the road was opened. This makes a dismal prospect for the London-Birmingham motorway, the excavations for which seem to have been almost perpetually flooded.
Praaper 'Eller
THERE was a time when east was east and west was west I and the twain never met, That, ac'cording to Mr. W. J. Duckharn, chairman of West Cornwall Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, speaking at Falmouth last Friday, was how the Cornish people escaped extermination by invaders who landed in the east. Now they are invaded every year from the east and north—and are glad of it.
What they do not welcome is the latest threat from the east—Westminster, to be precise—to integrate transport. Even the "warmer climate" of Cornwall is no protection against this kind of icy blast.
Cheap at the Price
AN operator in Salisbury, Rhodesia, has cut his tyre bills by thousands of pounds a year by paying drivers a bonus for freedom from puncture. He uses Leyland Octopus eightwheelers, the tyres of which cost up to 1480 a set, and was alarmed by the frequency of impact fractures. Since he introduced the bonus system, his drivers have been far more careful.
Fruity
THE man who designed the gearbox of the car in which I invested was apparently brought upon fruit machines. To engage .a gear it is necessary to line up four pears. As I have never been successful with games of chance I usually have to make do with two pears, a plum, a pineapple and a set of ear-plugs.