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ROAD TRANSPORT EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION ENDED

THE final winding-up meeting of the National Road Transport Employers' Federation has been held, and this body, which has links extending over 50 years or more, has disappeared so that the industry may have unity. Its termination is the result of successful merger negotiations, whereas most winding-up meetings are the results of failures.

A tribute was paid to Mr. W. Edwards, who has acted as president

• since 1932. His services in this and many other connections were recently recognized by the award of the C.B.E. Thanks were also given to Mr. R. P: Bailey, who was for many years secretary, whilst a presentation was made to Mr. G. W. Quick Smith, who succeeded him and acted as secretary until the winding up MASS MEETINGS IN YORKSHIRE AGAINST NATIONALIZATION

NEARLY 20 district mass meetings for industrialists, traders and members of the public, are planned for February and March, as part of the anti-nationalization campaign in the West Riding Area of the R.H.A. These will lead up to a big meeting which will be held in Leeds Town Hall during the last week in March.

It is aimed to obtain 1,000,000 West Riding signatures for the antinationalization petition in time to have them on the chairman's table at the Leeds meeting.

The case against nationalization was put to a joint meeting of Halifax Chamber of Trade, Halifax Chamber of Commerce, and local road-transport operators, on January 14, by Captain M. Clarke-Hall, public relations officer of the British Road Federation, and Captain F. G. Ribbings, northern public relations officer of the R.H.A.

Captain Clarke-Hall submitted that we could not afford to see a highly efficient and well-organized road transport industry fall into the hands of bureaucracy. We could not afford to put the whole chain of supply into the hands of the petty official.

Captain Ribbings said that this grave hour of Britain's economic need was no time to embark on wild, costly and hazardous experiments, such as the nationalization of road transport.

R.T.C. REFUSES SCOTTISH EXPRESS-CARRIAGE LICENCE I T would probably take longer to go from Prestwick to Edinburgh by present services that it would take to travel from America to Prestwick, stated Mr. J. Aitken, on behalf of Messrs. P. Irvine and Sons, Muirhall Garage, Salsburgh, when submitting an application for a road service permit in Edinburgh, on January 16.

The application, which was opposed by a number of objectors, was heard by Mr. Archibald Henderson, Scottish Regional Transport Commissioner, and sought to inaugurate an express carriage service betOeen Edinburgh and Ayr via Prestwick.

Objectors were the L.M.S., the L.N.E.R., Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., Lanarkshire Traction Co., Ltd., Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., and Mr. I. Hutchison. On their behalf it was stated that the services at present provided in conjunction with the associated railway companies were adequate and that the proposed service was unnecessary and would cause wasteful competition.

Among the supporters of the application were stated to be Sir William Darling, M.P., and Mr. Tom Fraser, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.

Mr. D. J. Aitken, representing the applicants, maintained that there was an urgent need for the proposed service. At present there was no direct through service from Edinburgh to Prestwick and the Ayrshire coast. Mr. Alexander Anderson, M.P. for Motherwell, supported the application, for, in his view, there was a very definite need for the service.

Mr. Henderson, after hearing the evidence for applicants, decided that no case had been made out that would justify him granting, at the present time, a licence for the operation of the service. He, therefore, refused the application, which, he remarked, was based. to some extent, on future needs.

MOTOR SHOW POSTPONED

FOR various reasons connected with I uninterrupted export sales and the fact that the Exhibition Hall at Earls Court has not yet been derequisitioned, the Motor Exhibition, originally arranged for the Autumn of this year, has been postponed and will now probably take place in the Autumn of 1947.

WOMEN JOIN FIGHT AGAINST STATE CONTROL

AWOMEN'S organization is being formed in Yorkshire to help in the fight against nationalization. First steps have been taken to establish a women's section of the West Riding Area of the Road Haulage Association, under the chairmanship of a woman operator of road haulage, Mrs. Hilda Borrowdale, of Leeds.

The idea is that operators' womenfolk shall form the spearhead of a movement contacting a wide range of women's associations in the Riding. A feature of the project is the formation of propaganda teams which, to assist in the West Riding Area's drive for 1,000,000 signatures .to the antinationalization petition, will visit places where women congregate.

Arrangements are being made to hold meetings, in the West Riding sub-areas of R.H.A., of operators' wives and officials of local women's organizations. It is planned to form branch committees at these meetings, and ultimately a West Riding committee for the coordination of their activities. Antinationalization literature, from the woman's angle, is being printed, and badges are to be issued to members of the movement.

In Mrs. Borrowdale the movement has a leader with experience of women's organizations in several directions, She is also chairman of the Leeds branch of the Industrial Transport Association.

PROTEST MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM

A MEETING of protest against the rls nationalization of inland transport will be held by the N.R.T.F. at the Town Hall, Birmingham, on February 6, at 2.45 p.m. It has been convened so that the public may be told how harmful, inefficient and expensive State control would be.

The chair will be taken by Alderman Kenneth Wilson, J.P., president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and the case fot the haulier will be stated by Mr. Henry Duffield, M.Inst.T., chairman of the N.R.T.F.; that for trade and industry will be given by Mr. W. Chance, LP., a past-president of the Chamber.

Admission will be by ticket, which must be applied for not later than February 4, from the secretary, Road Haulage Association, 60, Newhall Street, Birmingham, 3.

°INSTITUTE OF WELDING MEETING APAPER entitled "Mobile Welding with the Royal Engineers" will be presented by Captain R. B. Croft and Captain 0. Lithgow, A.M.I.Struct.E,. before the Institute of Welding, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, London, SW. I, on January 30, at 6 p.m.

TRANSPORT CATERING DIRECTORY

ANEW edition of the Directory of Road Transport Cafés has been issued by the Road Transport Catering and Accommodation Joint Committee, Roadway House, 146, New Bond Street, London, W.I. MR. A. WATSON, M.B.E. (Coast Lines, Ltd.), has been appointed to the library, and research committee of the Institute of Transport, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Alfred Robinson.

SIR THEODORE EASTAWAY THOMAS

becomes a director of the Lancashire United Transport and Power Co., Ltd. It will be remembered that Sir Theodore, who recently retired from the L.P.T.B., received a Knighthood in the New Year Honours.

MR. JAMES STUART DUNCAN, Of the Massey Harris Co., Ltd., of Toronto, has been elected a director of the International Nickel Co., of Canada, Ltd. He is chairman of the Massey Harris concern and is on the boards of various American and Canadian companies.

MR. F. J. Ews has been appointed chief of the tyre-design department at the Gravesend works of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He joins the company from the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., where he was continuously engaged, for 16 years, on tyredevelopment work.

MR. S. MARKLAND, 0.B.E., A.M.I.M.E., M.I.A.E., M.S.A.E., chief engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been assigned the temporary appointment of deputy general manager of the company. The appointment has been made owing to the absence, through illness, of Mr. G. A. Liardet, managing director.

MAJOR C. BROUGHTON-BLACK has recommenced his activities, after nearly five years with the Forces, as advertising manager of the Pyrene Co., Ltd. He served with the R.A.S.C. in the 9th Armoured Division from September, 1941, and was transferred to the 79th Armoured Division in June, 1943. He finally finished up in Hamburg as chief of the Music and Theatres Sub-section for NM. Germany, under Control Commission. His office and advertising department are now at the company's London office, 9, Grosvenor Gardens, Victoria, S.W.1.

MR. CECIL TAYLOR has had four years soldiering in France and the Middle East (from which he retired with the rank of Major), and then Government service as Director of the Campaigns and Exhibitions Division, M.0.1. In December he resigned from his position with Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., and, following his release by the Government, has taken up an appointment as publicity manager with the Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Between 1925 and 1939, his activities with General Motors and Vauxhall Motors ' were widely known, and his honorary work, including a four-year period as chairman of I.S.B.A., will be well remembered. In the Ford Company he will control an organization responsible for Press advertising and other forms of publicity, as well as general information services. MR. S. GRIMSHAW will con tinue to be head of the Press advertising and print section, and MR. C. N. HOLMES the section handling display for both the company and dealers.

MR. V. M. BARRINGTON-WARD,

C.B.E., D.S.O., general manager (Southern Area), L.N.E. Railway, MR. S. R. GEARY, 0.B.E., general manager (Road Services), London Passenger Transport Board, and Brig.-General Sir OSBORNE MANCE, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., lately Director of Canals, M.O.W.T., have been elected vice-presidents of the Institute of Transport.

MR. GEORGE Dowry, F.R.Ae.S., whose picture appears on this page, is managing director of Dowty Equipment, Ltd., Cheltenham. He is leader of the team of technicians which has produced what promises to be the epoch-marking liquid spring, of which a full description is given elsewhere in this issue. Liquid springs are already fitted to the Bristol Wayfarer and Freighter, and Avro Tudor aircraft. CAPTAIN G. D. C. ROSE, a director and general manager of Central Garage, Ltd., of Bradford and Leeds, has been mentioned in dispatches. He was recently demobilized after five years' service, the greater part of which was spent with R.E.W.E. in the Middle East and Italy.

MR. S. A. JONES has been appointed Midland area manager of Roadways Transport Development, Ltd., with headquarters at the company's •branch office, Lionel Buildings, Lionel Street, Birmingham. Ma. H. W. E. BOULTON remains in his present position as Birmingham branch manager. MR. J. F. HOLLINPRIEST is in charge of a new branch office at 31, Lloyd Street, Manchester, which the company has recently opened, and at which a hirepurchase service for all classes of motor vehicle is available, Special finance facilities for the motor trade are also provided.

MR. JAMES K. HOARE has been appointed resident representative of Nuffield Exports, Ltd., in South Africa and East Africa, with headquarters in Durban. He has recently returned to this country from a preliminary tour of his territory, which includes the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, Kenya and Uganda. He covered 12,000 miles by air, train and car in 63 days. He has had considerable experience of the motor trade in South Africa, where he was the Nuffield representative fot several years before the war.

MR. A. H. HAWKINS, general manager (country buses and coaches), of London Transport, will retire on March 1. He will be succeeded by MR. B. H. HARBOUR, who has been appointed operating manager (country buses and coaches); he was formerly commercial manager. MR. A. B. B. VALENTINE, formerly chief supplies officer, has been appointed chief commercial officer and, in addition to retaining his responsibility for the supplies department (purchasing and stores), will be responsible for fares and charges, traffic development, and the commercial advertising work of the Board. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Transport and chairman of its Henry Spurrier Memorial Committee.

MR. H. G. TAYLOR, who has been with Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., for the past 24 years, has been appointed manager of the company's newly created Birmingham branch. He has had a long connection with the tyre trade. MR. H. MARTIN becomes branch manager for the company at Manchester. He joined Henley's in 1934. MR. F. G.. DIXON has been made the company's branch manager for Bristol. His connection with the tyre trade goes back to 1912, when he joined the Continental Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., at its Bristol branch, as solid-tyre representative for South Wales and the West of England. He joined the Henley concern in 1921; covering the whole of Wales.

VAUXHALL MOTORS ENCOURAGES WORKERS

AN announcement by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., the producer of Bedford trucks, is to the effect that a guaranteed week of 46i hours has been arranged for all the company's 10,000 employees. As stoppages for Bank Holidays would be a contradiction in terms, the company is also taking the forward step of paying for all these. The employees already have two weeks' summer holiday with pay, whilst a comprehensive profit-sharing scheme has been in operation for some 10 years.

STOCKTON TAKING STOCK

STOCKTON'S municipal-transport manager, Mr. W. M. Campbell, has been asked to prepare a report on the undertaking, giving the age of each vehicle in its service, whether renewal of engine or body has been carried out. and an estimate of the remaining useful life of each bus.

KERRY'S LATEST AGENCY '

WJE are informed that Kerry's (Great TT Britain), Ltd., has taken over the exclusive agency for Lempco crankshaft grinders and surface grinding machines. This now completes a comprehensive range of automotive maintenance and repair equipment, the agency for which the company holds the sole selling rights in Great Britain on behalf of Lernpco Products Inc., Bedford, Ohio.

CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION ' IN MANAGEMENT

TRAINING of managers in industry 1. will be the subject of a conference to be held in the Central Hotel, Glasgow, on January 31. The conference, which has been organized by the Institute of the Motor Industry, has been planned to enable in emb er s to become acquainted with the more important ideas under discussion in authoritative quarters in connection with education in management.

Discussions will deal mainly with what those in industry require from the universities, and similar training institutions, and what the training institutions are entitled to expect from industry.

Mr. S. S. Dawes, president of the Institute, will preside, and the principal speakers will be Sir Hector Hetherington and Sir Steven Bilsland.

PRICE OF OPPERMAN ATTACHMENT

WJE have been asked by E. R. TT Tompson and Co., the sole concessionnaire for the Opperman fourwheel-drive attachment, dealt with in our issue dated January 11, to state that the net price of £275 for the device does not include the cost of tyres and wheels.

• NEW GASKET CATALOGUE

WE. have recently received from Hall TT and Hall, Ltd., Oldfield Works, Hampton, Middlesex, a copy of its latest gasket catalogue. Preparations for this publication were made about a year ago, and, naturally, there is a number of gaskets and joints manufactured now that is not included in the catalogue. The list of types covers copper and asbestos gaskets for almost every class of vehicle, and copies may be obtained from the address given.

'OBITUARY

MR. WILLIAM EDWARDS, of Camroyd Street, Dewsbury, who had for many years been in business as a haulage contractor, died suddenly on January 19. He was 73 years old.

We regret to learn of the death, which occurred on January 19, at the early age of 57, of MR. KENNETH A. J. VARNEY, managing director of Mann Egerton and Co., Ltd., the Norwich concern of motor engineers and coachbuilders. He joined the company as secretary in 1919, and in 1933 was elected to the board of directors.

M.O.L. BUSINESS TRAINING SCHEME

ASCHEME to train men and women in business administration after their release from war service will come into operation next April. This, it is announced by the Ministry of Labour, has been planned under the supervision of Mr. F. C. Hooper, Director of Business Training. It is designed to make good the loss of training and progress in business management which large numbers of such people have suffered owing to war service, and to ensure that the capabilities and high qualities they may have developed in war service are not lost to industry and commerce.

Broadly, this training is to be put on the same general footing as that for a profession under the "Further Education and Training Scheme," also the people to whom it applies are the same —those who have served in H.M. Forces, Merchant Navy, Civil Defence General Services and N.F.S., Police Auxiliaries, and the Civil Nursing Reserve, also those who have volunteered for, or been directed to, work in coal mines as an alternative to the Armed Forces.

Applicants are required to fulfil specified conditions of eligibility and, subject to necessity, those accepted may have financial assistance, which, in the case of a married man with one child, may be as high as £310 per year.

The Scheme comprises a general business course, a basic course of about three months, and a number of specialized courses which will follow these in suitable cases and will be anything from three months to two years in duration. The courses will be given in commercial and technical colleges in the principal towns.

Fuller particulars are given in leaflet P.L188, available at any of the Appointments Offices of the Ministry of Labour, the addresses of which can be obtained at any Resettlement Advice Office or local office of the Ministry.

GOOD SUPPLIES OF MORRIS COMMERCIAL SPARES • CONTRARY to some reports about a %.-"general shortage of spare parts, Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., Birmingham, states that there is practically no lack of supplies for vehicles of its manufacture. Over 90 per cent, of all parts ordered are despatched by return, and of the remainder practically 60 per cent. is available within seven days.

We are advised that the situation is improving rapidly and that within a short time the company will, in this connection be in as favourable a position as in early 1939.

TOO MANY STOPPING PLACES IMPEDE CONDUCTORS WHEN the question of bus stops was vY considered by Jarrow Town Improvement Committee, it was stated that there was opposition from bus employees to the restoration of the old stopping places on the ground that too many stops impeded the collection of fares.

Alderman J. R. Drummond said that if they could not obtain satisfaction from operators on the question of stopping places, the committee should bear in mind the possibility of running its own service.

ALUMINIUM AND THE MOTORVEHICLE ENGINEER

AT the next general meeting in London of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, which will be held on February 5, at 5.30 p.m., at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, St. James's Park, S.W.1, Dr. E. G. West, Ph.D., B.Sc., director of the Light Alloy Development Association, will read a paper entitled "Aluminium and the Automobile Engineer."

The paper deals with aluminium in all its forms, wrought, cast, sheet, extruded and pressed. It details all of the recognized alloys, giving in almost every case tables of the forms in which each is available, treatment required, tensile properties, and so on. It embodies suggestions for increasing die life, the most suitable sections for the extruded form, rnachineability, strength and application of welded joints, and data on riveting together with a section on possible applications in automobile production.

TRANSPORT SOCIETY'S GROWING MEMBERSHIP

AVING maintained activity 1 'throughout the war years, although necessarily on a restricted basis, the Yorkshire Transport Society has begun post-war expansion. An increase in active membership was reported at the eighth annual meeting on January 15, and there are prospects that a further growth in strength with the-return of more transport men from the Services will be accompanied by an extension of activities.

-Mr. Ca-R. Tattam, general manager of Bradford Passenger Transport Department, continues to be the Society's president, and other officers are as follow:--Vice-presidents: Messrs. I. C. Dean (West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd.), N. H. Dean (Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd.), C. R. Wreathall (East Yorkshire Motor Service, Ltd.), T. F. Eggleston (L.N.E.R.), H. Richardson (Bradford Technical College), and Albert House; chairman, Mr. Charles Bragg (L.N.E.R.); vice-chairmen, Messrs. H. Smith (Hebble Motor Service, Ltd.), and H. Mann (Bradford Passenger Transport Department); hon. secretary, Councillor S. Scott (Bradford Passenger Transport Department).

It was decided to present the usual annual prize from the Society for award to the transport student with the best record of progress at Bradford Technical College.

LEYLAND BEAVER DELIVERIES IN APRIL

(--,WING to the termination of ‘--of Government contracts earlier than was anticipated, Leyland Motors, Ltd., announces that it will now be possible to commence delivery of the Leyland Beaver 7i-tonner during April next. The Beaver, which will have a 7.4-litre, 100 b.h.p. six-cylindered engine, will be the first of the Leyland series of godsvehicle chassis chassis to be offered since the termination of hostilities.

DAVID BROWN OPENS MANCHESTER OFFICE

BECAUSE of expanding business and to give better service to local customers, David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., has opened an offite at 71 and 72, Atlantic Chambers, 7, Brazennose Street, Manchester, 2.

STATE-CONTROL WOULD HIT FARMERS I F the question of the nationalization of road transport were put to any fair-minded man or woman the answer would be against it, said Major H. E. Crawfurd, president of the Road Haulage Association, at a mass meeting held in Exeter recently as a protest against State-control of the industry.

Under nationalization what became of the working man, asked Major Crawfurd; sooner or later he would be told what he was to work at, and where he was to work. That was the way Germany trod, he said.

Lieut.-Col. G. Lambert, M.P., said that agriculture was to him the most important industry in the country, and he believed that if road transport were taken over by the Government, no single section of the community would suffer more than the farming industry.

A resolution opposing nationalization was carried with only two dissentients, and a petition against State-control was extensively signed.

MIDLAND TRADE CONCERN TAKEN OVER WIE are advised that Praills Motors, IN Ltd., of Hereford, has acquired the premises and goodwill of, Trucks and Spares (Midlands), Ltd., at Wolverhampton New Road, Langley, Nr. Birmingham. It intends trading there as Praills (Midlands), Ltd., and has been appointed a dealer for Bedford vehicles. GROWING INTERESTS OF JONAS WOODHEAD

THAT Jonas Wood head and Sons, Ltd., the vehicle spring manufacturer; has acquired a large financial interest in the South African concern of Kempthorne and Co., of Transvaal, was mentioned by Captain Allan G. Kyle, chairman, at the company's recent annual meeting.

Explaining that South Africa was compelled by war-time exigencies to produce spring steel for the first time in its history, Captain Kyle said that now these supplies were available locally the manufacture of springs there was bound to go ahead. Kempthorne and Co. had agreed to expand its factory considerably, but certain types of spring would still have to be exported to Africa.

Reporting also a development in Scotland, the chairman said that, following customers' demands, its subsidiary company, Wil!ford and Co., Ltd., of Sheffield, was already going ahead with plans to re-establish itself there. and a new factory was being erected.

Announcing the intention of the Woodhead concern to manufacture the Monroe telescopic shock-absorber, Captain Kyle said; "It has long been our contention that the shock-absorber bears a very close relationship to the spring suspension of any vehicle, and, with this in view, certain of our chief executives have recently visited the United States of America, and are now fully aware of all the latest developments there."

LEYLAND TO PROSPECT WORLD MARKETS Willi-TOUT committing himself on the VV effect of the proposed nationalization of road transport, Mr. H. Spurrier, general manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., speaking at a staff dinner, said that the company took an optimistic view of the future. The dinner, the first of its kind to be given by the directors after a lapse of six years, was attended by over 100 executives and staff. For the first time, women members were present, in recognition of the prominent part they had played during the war, In a brief reference to the company's war effort, Mr. Spurrier referred to the fact that it designed, parented and manufactured the Comet Tank—the hush-hush Tank used in the last heave of the European campaign.

Looking to the future, Mr. Spurrier said: "I am convinced that great opportunities now exist to establish the company's products in the world markets."

SCOTLAND'S DECISION ON STANDING BUS PASSENGERS

ON and after January 27, the number of passengers allowed to stand in buses throughout Scotland will be reduced to eight in single-deckers and five in double-deckers.

A correspondent was given this information by Mr. A. Henderson, Regional Transport Commissioner for Scotland. The alteration follows on recent representations made to the M.O.W.T. by a delegation from the Transport and General Workers Union, arising out of representations made by employees of the Central S.M.T. in Lanarkshire.

PAPER ON "EDUCATION FOR TRANSPORT"

ON January 30, at 5.30 p.m., the Southern Section of the Institute of Transport will meet at the Polygon Hotel, Southampton, when Mr. T. W. Royle, C.V.O., M.B.E., a vice-president of the Institute, will read a paper entitled "Education for Transport."

T.R.T.A. LIVERPOOL MEETING

LIVERPOOL District and North Wales Sub-area of the T.R.T.A. will hold its first annual general meeting at the Common Hall, Hockins Hey, Liverpool, on January 30. A report will then be made regarding the Government's proposals to nationalize road transport and as to present and future activities of the Association in opposing such proposals.

Nominations for the sub-area committee must be in the hands of the secretary, Mr. C. Dudley Whitnall, by January 28.

NEW INDIA TRACTOR TYRE INTRODUCED

A NEW tractor tyre has been introduced by the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. It is known as the India Super Grip, and is illustrated on this page.

It is claimed for this tyre that it provides greater grip on the earth, smoother running on the road and is self-cleaning. The bars on the tread are scientifically designed to give maximum drawbar pull, whilst the whole tyre is robustly constructed to give long life.

A large number of tests has been carried out with this tyre in various parts of the country, and we are advised that it has come through all these with very satisfactory results.

It is interesting to note that this is claimed to be the first new tyre introduced in Great Britain since the outbreak of war in 1939. EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS IN THE MOTOR INDUSTRY

SPEAKTNG recently on "Prospects in the .Motor Industry" in the Midland Regional programme of the B.B.C., Sir Miles Thomas, D.F.C., vicechairman of the Nuffield Organization, said that the first need of the industry was for such skilled workers as tool makers, pattern makers, tinsmiths, woodworking machinists, body trimmers, draughtsmen and designers, but there would also be many openings for such semi-skilled persons as machine operators and assemblers.

On the engineering side there was ample opportunity for ingenuity. "I do not say that we are going to get radical changes in design with jet and turbine-engined vehicles sweeping the field in the next few years, but there will be steady progress," Sir Miles declared.

To back up technical progress, there would be room for expansion commercially, both at home and overseas, and, therefore, room for persuasive salesmen who knew their jobs thoroughly and for good sales organizers who had studied and could implement service and spare-parts facilities after a vehicle had been sold.

Sir Miles emphasized that the motor industry regarded the settlement of young men returning from the Forces into really worth while jobs as a privilege and not a problem.

PIRELLI SALES MEMBERS BACK FROM THE WAR

THE following members of the sales I organization of Pirelli, Ltd., have recently rejoined the. company on demobilization from the .Services:— Messrs. F. R. Ewart, F. R. Briggs and R. A. Stafford (Manchester branch); Messrs. G. Cracknell, A. J. Bowman and R. F. Lironi (London branch); and Messrs. M. F. Norbury and R. P. Stockbridge (Birmingham branch). Mr. T. Sraeaton Dick, on being released from the Tyre Directorate, has also rejoined the company, operating from the London branch.

NEW CENTRE OF THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT

piSHEFFIELD and District Centre of the Institute of Transport has been formed, and the chairman is Mr. H. R. Caulfield-Giles, M.Inst.T., traffic manager of Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd. The vice-chairmen are Messrs. D. M. Gracie, M.B.E., M.Inst.T. (district goods manager (Sheffield) L.N.E. Railway), R. C. Moore, M.Inst.T. (general manager, Sheffield Corporation Transpo-+), and E. J. Shaw, A.M.Inst.T. (parli.... and controller, E. and E. J. Shaw). The honorary secretary is Mr. N. Rylance, M.Inst.T. (general manager, Rotherham Corporation Transport).

In the list of distribut -"Ik• •'^ depots which appeared in ore advertisement of F. Perkins, Ltd., in our issue dated December 28, an incorrect telephone number was given for Rootes, Ltd., 91-93, Charlotte Street, ham, 3; it should have been Central 7482.