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Diamond Logistics Delivers Cake to Celebrate its 16th Birthday -
Diamond Logistics, Surrey's premier courier company, surprised 16 clients by delivering birthday cakes to them to celebrate 16 years of business in Surrey

Air Ambulance Trust to benefit from NetDespatch’s fund raising efforts -
NetDespatch is raising funds to help towards the running costs of Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust (TVAC). The Trust provides an essential life saving service for the Thames Valley area covering Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire....

CYC Logistics benefit from advanced mobile data and tracking system -
CYC Logistics has implemented DA Systems' NX Mobile Data and Fleet Tracking solutions to deliver instant communications and location information between its office operations and fleet of 140 vehicles....

Citysprint Supports Courier On Round The World Motorcycle Charity Trip -
‘Poor Circulation’ receives sponsorship from CitySprint. The UK’s largest privately owned SameDay Courier business, is sponsoring one of its couriers – Geoff Thomas, aka Blue 88 – to embark on a round the world motorcycle trip in order to raise money for charity...

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Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets, all travelling at maximum velocity.

The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high-speed trains.

Arrangements were made and a gun was sent to the American engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken hurled out of the barrel crashed into the shatterproof shield smashed it to > smithereens blasted through the control console snapped the engineer's > back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.

The horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the disastrous results of the experiment along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.

 

 

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo.

 

 

 

"Defrost the chicken!"

 

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