Bus Directors See for Themselves
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STAYING AT HOME
THE annual prize awarded by the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., to the candidate who, being an employee of a road passenger transport company, achieves the highest aggregate of marks in the Royal Society of Arts examinations for a diploma in road transport subjects, has been won for 1959-60 by Mr. Kenneth L. Stones, an engineering inspector with the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., a BET. company.
LEEDS STATION CLOSING
THE Leeds Corporation bus station in Rockingham Street, designed to serve all people living in the north and western outskirts of the city, is to be closed. Since it was opened six years ago there have been continuous complaints.
HOW'S IT WORKING?
1—, VIDENCE is to be collected by Birmingham Chamber of Trade about the difficulties that their members have experienced since the city's no waiting and parking regulations came into force some weeks ago.
LOOKING AFTER DRIVERSALESMEN
THE Industrial Welfare Society is to hold a one-day course for transport, dispatch and personnel managers who are concerned with the recruitment, training and working conditions of van drivers and delivery salesmen (of whom there are about 300,000 in the United Kingdom) on November 9. at the Midland Hotel, Birmingham.
The importance of these employees. dealing as they do with delivery, selling and collecting of goods at homes and shops, becomes more evident with increasing economic well-being, and their efficiency can greatly influence company prosperity, said the Society last week.
MORE FOR ROADS—MR. ROOTES
NO Government since the war has taken the roads programme seriously, Mr. Geoffrey Rootes, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said at the Society's annual dinner, in London on Tuesday. He called for a much bolder roads policy and a doubling of the present investment level.