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Idea to Assist Export and Business Relations Comes to Fruition ANUMBER of young but well-travelled men have formed a company known as International Business Services, Ltd., 14, Arlington Street, London, S.W.1.
The object to provide for subscribers and approved non-members a combination of club and office at this address. The amenities are to include reading and writing rooms, an information bureau, a reference library, a multilingual reception staff, complete secretarial services in all languages, office facilities, and a personal service to include travel, hotel and theatre bookings, guides, etc. Membership is to cost £25 per annum, and although the use of the service is restricted to overseas business men, British concerns may take out memberships enabling them to extend the facilities of the " I.R.S." to their visitors from abroad. The idea was evolved by Mr. Peter Taylor while he was with the R.A.F. and F.O. Intelligence, when many foreign business men told him that such a service would greatly assist them and Britain's export trade. The first member is a director of an Uruguayan engineering firm.
A24 The Modern Youth AT one time many youngHas Gained on Road I—Isters concentrated on cot.
Transport lecting the numbers of loco motives, and some still engage in this amusement. Others have become more interested—and more up to date—in their interest in road transport. In this connection, Mr. D. M. Sinclair, general manager of "Midland Red," tells us that the younger generation is busily engaged in collecting bus numbers and other details of this fleet. Every day the mail at Bearwood contains from 50 to 100 requests from young enthusiasts for copies of the printed booklets that the company has specially issued for its "fans." These contain type details, registration numbersand identification numbers. One aggrieved youth said that he had received a "hundred lines" for standing too near the school gates while collecting bus numbers. Another work of the company is a reference booklet to the coloured garage identification domes placed on the rear panels of the buses and known colloquially as " leopard spots." Recently the company was asked to forward a schoolboy, a leopard skin. nUR1NG the recent Wvisit to the Weymann Works at Addlestone, when we saw a large number of bus bodies under construction for various places, our attention was drawn to the fact that on some six models of bus body being built there were six different types of window and the same number of different forms of indicator. In fact, if the show had been specially staged it could not have afforded a better example of the need for standardization. It would almost appear that some operators endeavour to place difficulties in the way of production rather than try to ease them. Possibly this may be mere thoughtlessness, or, perhaps, it is the expression of individuality carried to extremes.
A Striking Example of Lack of StAndardi zation ..... Car
Stopping a Staff DESPITE the alleged large to "Tap" the Driver flowing amongst the people, cadging is still prevalent. We do not mean the ordinary street beggar, but the slimy gentleman with a tale of woe. One such, smartly dressed in Merchant Navy uniform, stopped one of our staff cars one evening and told a really remark able yarn as to how he had left his wallet, complete with identification papers, on his ship, and found himself in the great city without a penny He thought that £3 might be sufficient to set him right, whereas our driver had taken the view that he merely wanted a lift. In the end, he obtained neither, but only advice to go to the police, who would probably put him right, possibly in more ways than one.