BIG INCREASE IN I. OF T. MEMBERSHIP
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" mOT only was there a continued IN upward trend in total membership figures during the past year, but there was also a marked rise in the rate of increase," says the report of the council of the Institute of Transport for the year ended September 30 last. Membership at that date totalled 7,650, compared with 6,911 in 1946, and 5,053 in 1939.
There was also a sharp increase in the total number of examination papers worked.. At he close of the year, the figure was 2,485, compared with 970 in 1946.
It is stated that early in the new session, a report on education in management for transport will be published. It has been prepared by a committee comprising Messrs. J. S. Nichol! (chairman), M. A. 'Cameron and C. F. King.
The council acknowledges the help afforded during the year by the Transport Press.
ANSWERS TO LEEDS PEAK PROBLEMS?
['WRING, the tea-time peak, nearly 800 buses and trams lift 46.000 passengers from the centre of Leeds, said Mr. A. Stone, deputy chief traffic officer of the municipal transport department; at the December meeting of Yorkshire Transport Society. Since 1944 there had been a 100 per cent. increase in vehicular traffic on the roads in Leeds,
As remedies, he suggested easierloading vehicles, better fare-collection methods, bigger bus engines, reduction of congestion and adoption of "prohibitive" fares. Passerigers, he said, must be educated in the use of transport.
YORKSHIRE FUND MEMBERSHIP INCREASE
Ifs4CREASE of membership by 100 to 568, during 1946, was mentioned by the secretary at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund, in Leeds, on December 16. The centre's increase was 18 per cent., compared with a national increase of 12 per cent.
Officials were elected as follow:— Chairman, Mr. H. Gledhill (Ossett); vice-chairman, Mr. R. J. Hastewell (Leeds); secretary, Mr. E. Webster (Leeds).
COURSES FOR TOOL SALESMEN THREE-DAY courses for salesmen I engaged in the tool and equipment trades have been inaugurated by S. Wolf and Co., Ltd. The first day of the course is devoted to the basic principles of salesmanship applied to portable electric tools, and to visits to the works. The second day's proceedings deal with the uses of portable electric tools, and demonstrations are given. On the third day, after-sales service, packing and presentations are studied.
Exports of vehicles. in November were valued at £5,600,000. A28