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uOVERING over Woburn Place, one of central London's faded but still genteel (in a threadbare way) quarters, I observed comings and goings that suggested that the Road Haulage Association's head office may be transferred there. The Association have been looking for new headquarters for some time and I am now getting into training for a housewarming early next year.
If the Traders Road Transport Association and Passenger Vehicle Operators Association also move from 146 New Bond Street, the house should indeed be warmed. Mind you, I haven't been invited yet.
Scholar at 62 " TT is never too late to learn," is the motto of Mr. E. Bristow,
1 senior clerk at the Bolton depot of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., who at the age of 62 has just qualified by examination for associate membership of the Institute of Transport. He was himself an operator in the Lake District in the old char-a-bancs days.
Back-fire
BLAMING the bus is the modern substitute for kicking the cat. But the bus has hit back at apprentices of Associated Electrical Industries at Trafford Park, Manchester. The company told Stockport's youth employment officer that they would be unable to take more apprentices from the town because the
B22 bus service from Stockport could not deliver them to the works on time.
Unfortunately, Mr. Sidney Hathaway, transport superintendent of Stockport Transport Department, has a son who has been travelling from Stockport to the A.E.I. works for four years and has never been late.
Worm's Eye View
TIMMY LITTLE, Atkinson's versatile and ever-willing servicej department head, was called out the other day to recover a ,lorry (not an Atkinson, he points out) that had overturned near the works. Miraculously, neither the driver nor his mate was injured. When asked about the accident, the mate said he knew nothing about it. He was alseep at the time, but he guessed something was wrong when he woke up, "because all the houses were upside down."
A Touch of Turbans
TO the Sikh the wearing of the turban. is an outward sign of spiritual grace. To Manchester Transport Department the wearing of the uniform cap by drivers and conductors is an essential indication that they "belong." Thus, confronted with conflicting requirements, members of Manchester's 700strong Sikh community cannot work as bus conductors.
There was another round in the series of discussions on this subject, last week, when seven Sikh leaders, wearing turbans in a variety of colours, put their views before the transport chairman, dlr. C. R. Morris. They said that Sikhs employed as conductors would be willing to wear turbans of any colour. But the answer was stilt "No"
zstruments of Mercy
IANCER research will benefit by more than LINO subscribed ,to the memorial fund to Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, former chief ecutive officer of the Road Haulage Association. The Imperial sneer Research Fund have spent the money on two of the :est electronic instruments for the investigation of living cells. le of the instruments locates and records growth processes, d the other investigates the environment in which changes in ing cells take place.
lackboards=Business
1ESPITE the sophistication of modern advertising, the good old blackboard continues to be the strongest puller in the ach and bus business. Southport Transport Department, for ;tame, launched a new service of open-top double-deckers to accompaniment of leaflets and advertising cards, and, in the nds of Mr. Jackson Hoggard, general manager, "the initial wits were disappointing." He then turned to chalk and ickboard, and the passengers flocked aboard.
D Travel
'VEN the great London Transport do not despise the chalk board, although in their latest publicity they have gone to wn in a big way. In a summer travel poster depicting a couple ;nicking beneath a tree, the artist has used fabrics of various lotus and textures, stitchcraft and embroidery to give a threenensional effect. This is emphasized by the special lighting tich was used to bring out the shadows when the work was otographed for reproduction by photolithography.