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Issue 4 2019 - Freight Business Journal Lifeboat saved for posterity


Historic lifeboat Bedford has been moved to the North East Maritime Trust’s yard to begin restoration, aſt er spending almost two years in secure storage at the Port of Tyne. The 1886-built


vessel was


brought back to Tyneside in 2017 by a band of local businesses including the Port of Tyne, Barbour Foundation, JML, M I Dickson, South Tyneside Council, Ward Hadaway and Tyne Lifeboat Society who clubbed together to cover the cost. Originally stationed at the coble


landing in South Shields, the 133 year-old, 10 metre long boat leſt the


town in 1968 initially to a museum in Devon, before moving to Suff olk and then to Scotland. The North East Maritime Trust


estimates that the Bedford will need two years of restoration work and will work with South Tyneside Council


to fi nd a permanent home for the lifeboat which was


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launched more than 55 times and saved 50 lives. She was named by Miss Bedford,


who bequeathed £1,000 (around £468,900 in today’s money) to the Lifeboat Society Trustees for a lifeboat to be named in memory of her brother Benjamin who was an engineer with the Tyne Improvement Commission, predecessors of the Port of Tyne.


And he drove the fastest Tuk Tuk in the East


Managing director of Essex forwarder Barrington Freight Matt Everard and his cousin Russell Shearman bid for a place in the world speed record books in May. But not for them some super-powered sports or racing car but w the world’s fastest Tuk Tuk. The Tuk Tuk, for those


unfamiliar with the cities of the Indian subcontinent and Far East, is a very basic taxicab, normally to be found puttering around the streets of Bangkok or Delhi at 20mph or so – alarming enough in rush-hour traffi c. However – and this is the


really scary bit – Matt has rebuilt one with a 1300cc fuel-injected engine.


With the old record standing


at 68mph for a Tuk Tuk with a driver and passenger – hence cousin Russell’s participation – the attempt was be made on 13 May at Elvington Airfi eld in Yorkshire.


sport fi rm Straightliners who will be familiar as the organisers of events including the Fastest Shed,


Shopping Trolley and Flushing Toile t in the world. Team Barrington hit a very


It was run by motor


creditable 74mph, though Matt reckons the machine may be good for 90mph or even a ton. Matt and Russell raised money


for Havens Hospices in Essex. To donate, visit the Virgin Money Giving website.


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