Call Sign December 2007 - Page 21 - Bedfont Green snatch DaC’s Lee Pearce!

It isn’t just Tottenham Hotspur where strange footballing things occur! Dial-a-Cab driver Lee Pearce (J71) has been the goalkeeping hero for DaC-sponsored Combined Counties Premier League team Wembley for a few years and it’s his magic between the sticks that has now cost Wembley his services.
   The problem started earlier this season when Wembley and Lee were up against fellow Combined Counties team, Bedfont Green, who were awarded a penalty. Up came the Bedfont number 6 to take the spot kick and Lee flew to his right to make a great save – something Lee has become renowned for. The game ended in a 1 – 1 draw.
   Then two months later, Lee heard that Bedfont Green were interested in signing him – one of several teams over the years to try.
   "To be honest," Lee told Call Sign, "I’ve always said no because not only do I like the way Wembley play the game, but I’ve always got on really well with the team captain/manager, Ian Bates. But this time was different, Bedfont Green made me a financial offer that I just couldn’t turn down, coming as it did just at the time my partner Becky gave birth to our third child."
   Lee continued: "I kept Ian in touch with developments, but Wembley just couldn’t match Bedfont Green’s offer and as a result, I have now moved on."
but Bedfont Green represents a new challenge and I am really

Bedfont Green snatch DaC’s Lee Pearce!

Lee Ready to drive away from DaC-Wembley for the last time. Inset: Lee in Action

looking forward to it.
He certainly went in at the deep end with Bedfont Green’s first home match seeing them up against runaway leaders,
Merstham. Lee made six top-drawer saves, but still couldn’t stop the away team leaving with all the points following a 0 – 2 win. The home fans appreciated Lee’s efforts, making him their Man of the Match, but the result still left his new team down at the wrong end of the table. At the same time, DaC-Wembley began to get things together and took a great away win at high-flyers, Cove.
An interesting match should take place on the day Call Sign drops onto your mat, because on 1

December Lee and his new team-mates make the trip over to DaC-Wembley, with Ian Bates and co making sure that Lee gets plenty of exercise – by picking the ball out of the net!
   "I’m looking forward to the match," said Lee, "because joking aside, I gave DaC-Wembley all I had and I’m proud of my time there. I’m sure we’ll have a drink after the match."
   Incidentally, thanks to the many DaC drivers who send in photos from their local paper showing Wembley with their DaC strip on. Keep ‘em coming…
   To confuse matters, both Bedfont Green and Bedfont are in the Combined Counties Premier League…

LONDON TO GET HYDROGEN BUS FLEET

In what Transport for London via Mayor Ken Livingstone calls investing in cleaner air, London Buses, who are responsible for achieving environmental targets and standards across the whole of London’s bus fleet in line with the Mayors Air Quality Strategy 1 and Climate Change Action Plan 2 initiatives, have announced their commitment to hydrogen technology.

   TfL took part in a successful two year European project known as Cleaner Urban Transport for Europe (CUTE) and its one-year extension, HyFLEET: CUTE, which involved the operation of three hydrogen fuel cell buses in revenue service.
   Hydrogen fuel cell buses are an ideal clean fuel solution, as they produce no emissions - only water vapour. In February 2006, the Mayor announced his aim to introduce up to 70 hydrogen powered vehicles across the GLA family by 2010. Ten of those will be buses. TfL is also undertaking the procurement process for the remaining vehicles and have now signed contracts with American company ISE4, who will be supplying the ten hydrogen buses to London. Five of these will be hydrogen fuel cell buses and five will be hydrogen internal combustion engine (ICE) buses.
   Fuel cell buses are powered by electrical energy, which is generated when hydrogen passes through the fuel cell. The hydrogen then forms with oxygen from the air to form water vapour as it enters the atmosphere. The hydrogen is stored in pressurised tanks on the roof of the bus.
   The five hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles (H2ICE) will use a specialist ICE V10 engine, which is powered directly by hydrogen, again stored in tanks on the roof of the bus.
   Hydrogen can be made from a number of different sources, including natural gas and the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen (electrolysis). The procurement process to secure a hydrogen refuelling supplier for the project is well under way and TfL expects to have the provider secured by early 2008.Although not publicly acknowledged, it is said that LTI have a hydrogen powered taxi engine on test.

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