We keep on running into organisations with the phrase "hi-speed" tucked snugly inside their titles. It all started with British Hi-Speed Rail, with whom Bristow has a hate-hate relationship but the list keeps on growing. 

British Hi-Speed Post Office

An official addresses massed ranks of postmen.
Official: Gentlemen of the Post Office, the Christmas Rush is nearly on us. There will be millions of letters to deliver. We know you will all do your duty. The mail must get through! Any questions?
The postmen en masse:  Yes. Why must it get through?
Official sotto voce  to a colleague: Someone find out
strip 5035 December 1977

British Hi-Speed Inland Revenue

Their ambition is that, by linking with British Hi-Speed Post Office and British Long-Distance Weather forecasters, everyone’s tax demands can be delivered on a wet Monday morning.

British Hi-Speed Radio

They frequently report traffic jams caused by Chester-Perry juggernauts breaking down, shedding loads or having an accident. Weather news consists of readings from the C-P roof and sports news from the graffiti in the C-P lifts.

British Hi-Speed Police

They are able to clamp and tow away a vehicle parked outside the C-P building before the driver has walked to the pavement. Which is bad news for Sampson of Sales. The police also enjoy harassing Bristow, telling him to "Move along" when he is merely pausing outside the staff entrance, and one of their number enjoys a romance with Traffic Warden 262.

British Hi-Speed Stock Exchange

Pandemonium breaks out when Chester-Perry's put in a take-over bid for Myles & Rudge. The last time anybody saw anything like it was after the Great Tea Trolley Disaster of '67

British Hi-Speed Lottery

They reject an application for a covered stand. For a desk-top football site.

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