R.H.A. • Sets Up Publicity Fund
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A FUND to be used solely for publicity purposes is to be set up by the Road 'Haulage Association. Expenditure will be Controlled. by the National Public Relations Committee, on which each area of the Association is represented.AsMernbers are beingasked to contribute at least £1 is. to this fund. Me. B. G. Turner, national chairman of the Association, points out that the size of the British Transport Commission enables it to influence the public by the use of large-scale publicity. In reply, he says, road transport under free enterprise must also make use of publicity. Leaflets have beendistributed to members "of more than 150 trade. associations and chambers of commerce and trade, but much more remains to be done.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON ROAD TRANSPORT?
[RAFT rules covering the use of Li roads, safety, traffic signs and signals, dimensions and weights of vehicles, braking systems, lighting and otMr matters to be observed internationally, have been prepared by the sub-committee on road transport of the • Economic Commission for Europe. They have been transmitted to Governments concerned as' one of the working papers for the United Nations conference on road and motor transport to open in Geneva on August 23.
WE regret to announce that the death occurred on Monday, June 20, at the age of 83, of MR. WALTER GROVES, founder-editor of "The Motor" in 1902, until his retirement at the end of 1937. He also assisted with the production of No. I issue of "The Commercial Motor," published on March 16, 1905.
Mr. Groves was, with the late Mr. Edmund Dangerfield, father of the present chairman of Temple Press Ltd., and Mr. Charles P. Sisley, founder of "Cycling," in January, 1891, which was the beginning of the company's pub• lishing business. He leaves a wife and
three sons. .