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A Face from the Past
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I‘AY mind flashed back some 30 years when. at the cocktail
party held by Goodyear in honour of Mr. A. S. Bishop, their retiring chairman, I met Maj. J. B. Elliott.. He brought back memories of the turbulent 'twenties and early 'thirties, when he was managing director of Redcar Services, • Ltd., which he sold to Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., in 1935, and chairman of the Motor Hirers' Association, the forerunners of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. I recalled battles on the roads of Kent and in the traffic courts between Rcdcar and Autocar Services in the days when Mr. Rowand Harker, K.C., was chairman of the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners,
At 73 Maj. Elliott is still the same vigorous individualist that he was as chairman of the M.H.A.
The Archbishop
lUR. BISHOP, too, bears his 69 years with extraordinary in ease and charm. He is as upright as ever, and it is good to know that the tyre industry is not to lose him completely. A competitor described him to me as the archbishop of the industry, and so gracious a pun requires no apology.
Up with the Lark
T"days when he started work at 6 a.m. and earlier were recalled by Mr. C. B. Nixon, the former chairman, when he presented the prizes to 61 apprentices at Leyland Motors, Ltd., last week. Two awards went to young women. Since Mr. Nixon joined the Lancashire Steam Motor Co., Leyland's forerunners, as secretary in 1903, he has done great work for successive generations of young people. Leyland Day Continuation School, founded in 1919 with about 70 students, must have been one of the first of its kind in the country, Today it has a roll. of 550. At last week's gathering Mr. Nixon invited the students to c 0 write to him in „confidence about their ideas" and aspirations in education. He stressed the importance of languages to British commerce and he recalled that in the United States he had found Russian taught as a• second language in schools.
Just the job
PEKING radio claims that a former rickshaw boy, now a machinist, did a whole year's work in a single eight-hour shift on New Year's Day. He continued to press on. Introducing 26 innovations in his job, he had completed eight years' work by 'the end of the week. 1 wonder what his transfer fee would be to sort out the little matter of 30 m.p.h. for British Road Services?
Honour in Rhyme
fiR. ARTHUR G. AKERS, Western Area secretary of the Road Haulage Association, who modestly describes his
M.B.E. as an award to the industry which he has been chosen
to hold, has received this verse from a Bristol member:
M.B.F.
From A.R.O.
Our secretary we greet this. day.
" Application's and Decisions," Not A or B Or special conditions, Just three letters—M.BE.
Na objections, Sir," say we,
He deserves it—A.G.A.
"It's a pity he couldn't work in the N.B.G.," says Arthur.
Changing Sides
ri,: A FAMILIAR figure has disappeared from the Yorkshire traffic courts. He is Mr. T. B. Atkinson, who for five years has represented British Road Services. and British • ilways. "1 have come to the conclusion that this island is t large enough to absorb all the people who have never had .o good—and their cars." .be tells me,
rie has taken an appointment as a resident magistrate with Kenya Government in Nairobi, He is going to enjoy being the other side of the fence for a change,