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• The Institute of Road Transport Engineers' intended change in title and scope Ito the Institution of Transport Engineers) is being held up because two departments of the Board of Trade cannot agree. So guests were told at the "at home" held by the IRTE in London last week.
This delay is not only holding up the title change: it affects, for example, recognition of the body being "for the public benefit", which would attract considerable tax and rate savings.
The annual report shows the IRTE to be financially healthy, with a useful cash balance. and it reveals that membership has now grown to 4,672—an increase of about 670 in a year, itself a record increment • British Leyland announces record export sales for the first eight months of 1969. From January to August, the value of British Leyland's direct exports from UK increased by 25 per cent to £225m—£45m higher than in the same period last year.
• British Car Auctions Ltd., Expedier House, Farnham, Surrey. advise us that they gave an incorrect phone number in their advertisement on page 97 of CM September 19. The correct number is OAL 136811.
• In a letter to the Editor on "Candidates' problems" (CM September 121 the address of Mr. F. W. Butler was inadvertently given as Institute of Road Training Officers instead of Institute of Road Training Engineers, 1 Cromwell Place. Kensington, SW7.