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John of the transport centre called....

or John from the transport centre called ....


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John from the transport centre called---

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Thanks Humble and Sarah for your warm welcome!

Sarah, if John from the transport centre.... sounds better, John of the ...is not necessarily wrong is it?

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... if John from the transport centre.... sounds better, John of the ...is not necessarily wrong is it?
Almost. One could think up a mock-heroic context (on the analogy of the knights of the Round Table) but I think a transport centre is necessarily so prosaic that you'd have to use from.

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