Express Driver is Truck Rodeo
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A 55,000 mile accident-free record
is something for anyone to boast about - particularly if it all happens to be accumulated in one city.
Harold Everett, Canadian Pacific Express vehicleman at Sudbury, has done that and more. Last winter he added the
Ontario straight truck championship to his laurels. He also placed fourth in the National Truck Rodeo Championships,
held at the same time.
Scoring 326 out of a possible 400, Harold captured the Champion's shield with a one and a half point margin over M.
Trenton, driver for another company.
In the National Rodeo he recorded 354 points out of 400 to finish only five points behind the winner.
Twenty-seven-year-old Mr. Everett has recorded the accident-free mileage record over a
period of six and a half years, ever since he was made vehicleman in July, 1953. He has been assigned to local
vehicle duties since that time.
Plates Are His Hobby
Jerry L. Verhague, of Winnipeg, a retired Company engineer, has the unusual hobby of
collecting license plates from all parts of the world. His collection is now over the 450 mark and includes every
Canadian province and all states of the U.S.A.
Other countries whose plates grace Mr. Verhague's wall include Belgium, England, Scotland, Guam, France, Trinidad,
and Mexico. In his right hand Mr.Verhague holds one of the early manitoba license plates, issued in 1908. It was
made of leather with metal numbers and a strap on the back for fastening it to a vehicle.
Steamships Fan Builds Model Empress
Eighteen-year-old David Rowson, of Liverpool, England, surveys with pride
an electrically-powered model of the Empress of England, which he completed recently after 17 months of
concentrated effort.
David, who spends most of his spare time on the Liverpool waterfront watching the big liners come and go, has two
ambitions. The first is to sail to Canada and the second to be a ship's purser.
This Spanner article is copyright
1960 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with
their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
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