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Well, I see the Island of Sark is finally to get its own bus service, albeit a somewhat limited one. The Island, where cars and motorcycles are banned, is to have ,a trailer bus for 30 passengers drawn by an agricultural tractor over a half-mile route from the harbour.
Tractors are not illegal on Sark, which explains the strange choice of power unit. The trailer is being built by a Guernsey firm at a cost of £1,000 and will be fitted with "failsafe" devices to ensure that it doesn't run back down the one in seven gradient and into the harbour, I don't suppose there is any connection, but it does seem odd that a tractor-drawn bus should make an appearance such a short time after the take-over of a British bus builder by a company called International Harvester!
Committee design
Committee-designed vehicles usually tend to be a compromise in the worst sense of the word. Whoever it was who said that a committee is only as good as its least able mem
Omnibologist
Humorous chaps, these writers of bus company press releases. Not long ago, from Manchester, I learned that a young lady just appointed had many interests and was broadminded. Now National Travel (South West) has appointed its first public relations officer: Alan Watkins, 27year-old journalist and omnibologist (student of buses and coaches) who, it seems once covered 4,750 miles in a fortnight's coaching within the UK. Seems to me, with my usual omniscience, that he sounds more an omnibiologist (student of living in coaches).