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I Cash interest
hear that some RHA members in the outh are taking more than a passing iterest in the Association's finances and :e pressing for information on the spread f the RHA's investment plans. The [ample set by BAR of publishing the :tails of their investments has whetted the )petite of others. But apparently the terest goes further and some members are terested in knowing the salaries of headaarters staff, who not unnaturally are not to happy to have their private affairs Jblicized. However, I hear there is a :rsistent group of critics ready to press for Le information to be divulged at the mai conference.
I Education corner
aere was a time when children walking to hoot, particularly in country districts, :re part of the daily scene but that was :fore the days of the omnibus. Now I hear at two-fifths of the children up in izington, Cumberland, are playing truant ;cause their parents can't afford the £1.20 r the three-mile return bus ride to eator Moor. Still, I suppose they could iy bicycles.
If these youngsters continue to stay away am school there is little likelihood of them Kling work in the Willowbrook organiza)n. George Hughes, the chairman, tells : that he is to step up entrance qualificams. For example, anyone with an IQ of ;s than 125 just won't get as far as the lepth interview which he has laid on for ;tential recruits. Funny thing, I always aught that 120 was an average IQ; if it is :n obviously Willowbrook are going for tter than average recruits.
Here's a new idea for the children in irnberland: the RTITB has just bought d fitted out two mobile classrooms which to be heated with Infradex heaters tich operate on BOC propane gas. This .y they could really travel to school in mfort and of course they could work in extra period to make up for their :rued absenteeism.
Post bus
re's another of these school bus stories. :ator Moor please note. Out on the Ind of Skye which is in the Inverness Inty council area, the Post Office is to :rate a schools bus service, under conct, with a minibus. In addition to ivering children to and from school and rying other fare naving passengers together with light freight, the bus will also be used for a twice-daily postal service Monday to Friday with a single delivery on Saturdays.
• Mystery corner
A couple of months ago Chrysler were all set to take about 150 transport managers up to Linwood. Industrial problems at the Scottish factory caused the visit to be cancelled. Then I learn they planned to take the party to Eire but that was just at the time when someone was burning down the British Embassy in Dublin. Last week all went well and they were whisked off to France. Now there is absolutely no significance in the fact that when they arrived President Pompidou left. What was the significance of the visit? Watch this space next week. This I can tell you—it had nothing to do with the fact that the Russians have ordered two Commer eightton chassis with Lambourn Super Six horseboxes to transport their team of showjumpers to the Olympic games.
• Franc French exchange
Garonor, the French distribution and warehousing complex just north of Paris which was featured in our January 28 issue, really impressed the party of distribution managers that CM took over to Garonor last week, as the letters of appreciation we have received have indicated.
The visit took the form of a conducted tour of the 250-acre site followed by lunch with some of Garonor's top personnel. The discussion that followed was one at which, in Parliamentary terms, a frank (or should it be franc?) exchange of views took place, and the visit was completed by a look at the freight brokers' clearing house. The brokerage system should prove to be a real eye opener to most British hauliers, the operators, usually the owner of the vehicle, bartering for return loads, within the fixed tariff limits, with some of the 150 freight brokers working from Garonor. The party was told that it was not uncommon for an owner-operator to wait for two days in the lorry-park before obtaining a load—or returning empty.
• Night service
It seems that everyday traffic to Felixstowe and Harwich increases—and not only during the daylight hours but sometimes well into the night. Not once but many times have I found commercial vehicles on their way back to London from Rotterdam "sick at the roadside". Sufferers will be delighted to hear that Nenoon Commercial Motors Ltd, of Widford Industrial estate, Chelmsford, is to keep its service and parts department running until midnight Monday to Friday. I wonder whether there would be more commercial vehicles operating at night and fewer during the day if service and parts departments were to be open through the silent hours. I think there possibly would.
• Fishy story
More than five thousand trout are to be bred in 50 tanks in Scotland for eventual export to France and to stock the Scottish lochs and rivers. The tanks are 15ft 6in. diameter and 5ft 4in. deep and BRSL have the job of moving them from Barrhead to the fish farms near Stirling. The worst part of the journey was lifting them over the roofs of adjoining lock-ups and through a public park onto the vehicles. Amazing are the lengths we will go to in order to assist nature.