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Roll Out The Barrel — From Coal
DESPITE the present glut of oil, conservation is still vital and the relative merits of road and rail in saving liquid fuel continue to be argued, often with emotion rather than......
Top Men Get Help To Find Jobs
THE PAGES of costly displayed advertisements for executives in some quality newspapers might give the misleading impression that there are more jobs than candidates. In fact, as......
Out Of The Flying Pan Into The Fire
"THE TRAIN speeds from city centre to city centre. No parking problems. No traffic jams," a British Rail newspaper advertisement declared. The adjoining column carried a report......
My Old Van's A Dustcart
A 1969 FORD D-Series refuse collector from Southend, where private enterprise has taken over public cleansing, is now a family holiday home. Undeterred by the smell, Jim Vogt, a......
Eightsome Reels Make Buses Pay
WHY is Runcorn new town's bus system a success whereas that at Milton Keynes is a dead loss? If I understand Terence Bendixson, a distinguished planner and president-designatE......
He Can Say That Again!
THE opening of the first motorway post office at the Forton service area on M6 near Lancaster marks a new era in communications that makes the space satellite look like a......