Mr. _Harpies to Open 1.o.T. Congress
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TI-US year's congress of the Institute of Transport, which will take place in London for the first time for 25 years, will be opened by Mr. Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport, at the Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, on April 27 at 9.45 a.m.
"Some thoughts on the future of inland transport" is the title of a paper to be delivered by Sir Brian Robertson, chairman. British Transport Commission. Other papers, on the following day, will be read by Sir Donald Anderson, pastpresident of the Chamber of Shipping, and Mr. Peter Masefield, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
MEN REJECT 40-HOUR WEEK A N 11-point economy plan, incorporating a 40-hour week, was rejected by Birmingham busmen this week. The scheme was advanced by the transport committee in answer to the men's demands for a 40-hour week. The committee agreed to it so long as the other economies were accepted.
The shorter working week would have cost the department an extra £200,000 a year, but the economies would have contributed half this amount.
£11m. FOR MERSEYSIDE PLANT
UNDER an £18m. expansion programme, t he Standard Triumph Group propose to spend E 1 1m. on new plant on Merseyside, it was announced on Tuesday.
MR. HILL PROMOTED • THE present deputy manager of I. national tyre sales of the Dunlop Rubber Co.,. Ltd., Mr. J. B. Y. Hill, has been promoted to sales manager in place of Mr. W. A. Moen, who has retired.