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Maritime competition
THE CHARTERE-15-Institute of Transport (CIT) has announced its OCL Maritime Transport Award. The author of the best paper submitted which is related to international maritime throughtransport will receive a £250 prize.
The writer of the winning paper for the London Transport Award will receive a prize for the first time this year. The London Transport Executive has donated £200. The award was set up in 1965 for the best paper submitted by a CIT member on metropolitan or urban transport. Entries for both awards must be received by the Institute's secretary by May 31, 1979, The OCL award is open to non-members of the CIT.
New IRTE centre
A NEW centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers was inaugurated in Luton on Tuesday. It is the North Bucks and Beds Centre and its territory will stretch from Reading in the West to approximately the Al in the East and as far North as Aylesbury.
The Centre is designed to cater for IRTE members who find travelling to the Thames Valley and Huntingdon Centres too arduous in the winter months.
The Centre secretary is Mark Robertson who has been secretary of the Huntingdon Centre for a number of years. His telephone numbers are: Bedford 740354 (home), Bedford 45151, ext 252 (office).
Not a murmur on weights
ASKED in the Commons to place on the agenda of the next Council of EEC Transport Ministers the matter of heavier lorry axle weights, Transport Secretary William Rodgers, said that he saw no advantage in seeking an early discussion on this matter.