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• Only Up In Filey, Yorkshire Do You See Black
cabs like this, apparently offering a lumpy ride while passengers breath in great lungfuls of fresh Pennine air. In fact, according to John Moon, who sent in the picture, "the......
• Many Londoners Worry That Public Transport Is Not What
it used to be, and that more investment is needed in staff and vehicles. But even the Hawk was astonished when boarding the 127 service from Purley to Mitcham recently to be......
• Winner Of The Beer Wagon Competition (cm 29 November
— 5 December) is Bernard Coomber who was the first reader to identify the White Model WA122 Streamliner which was designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky in the early 1930s for......
• Foster Air Angler Is A Charity Which Helps Children
with special needs such as learning difficulties by taking them on angling holidays which it uses as a `hook' for social and educational training. The charity is appealing to CM......
• The Transport & General Workers' Union Does Not Normally
expect to see its members make the front cover of New Musical Express — that bastion of all things trendy in the world of pop. However, former T&G member Miles Hunt, lead singer......
• The Dear Departed Festive Season Brought Forth A Spate
of manufacturer's calendars and diaries which CM staff will gratefully use to record their busy schedules this year. Among the Hawk's favourite calendars was Scania's, which......
• David And Peter Henshaw Of Sherborne, Dorset, Hope That
readers might be able to help them with a book they are writing about Rootes commercial vehicles, maker of the Dodge, Commer and Karrier between 1945 and 1970. They are anxious......
• Dogs Did Not Get A Very Good Press In
these pages during 1990, what with the tale of the police Alsation which bit two bobbies while they were trying to catch burglars at a transport depot in Southampton — and the......