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7th November 1958
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Stop, Thief!

By The Hawk

TWO daring robberies (to coin a phrase) were recently com

mitted in the Midlands. One was the theft of an A.E.C. eight-wheeler, the property of J. and H. Transport, Ltd., from outside a cafe at Willoughby, near Rugby. The vehicle was carrying copper ingots, valued at £5,200. Police discount the theory that the theft was the work of small boys who wanted a copper for the guy.

The other incident was the unauthorized removal of six garden seats, the property of Coventry Parks Department, from Coventry Airport, Baginton, during the final of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition. Mr. Mervyn I. Miles, secretary of the competition, last week made a plaintive appeal for their return. Meanwhile, they stand as a debit item in the competition's accounts.

Just in Time

ik AR. R. N. INGRAlvf, national chairman of the Road Haulage IVI Association, listened attentively to the discussion on the future of the competition at last week's meeting of the national organizing committee. He arrived just in time to hear, an attempt being made to secure two votes for each of the eliminating centres and one vote each for other organizations represented on the committee, including the R.H.A. The proposal was effectively scotched.

Even if it had been carried it would have had little practical effect, but the principal was bad,

Good Stuff

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Grenville Braithwaite, chairman of Coventry, Rugby and North Warwickshire Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, on arranging a programme of talks on subjects of general interest at the sub-area's monthly

n14 meetings. Despite threatening fog, last week's meeting was well attended and Mr. P. G. Clubley, of the Ministry of Transport, received an attentive hearing when he spoke on licensing.

In the sub-area there are many keen operators with knowledge above average of the finer points of hauliers' problem, and their tributes to Mr. Clubley were based on a livel■ appreciation of current licensing difficulties.

Vicar to the Rescue

PER HAPS the worst fears of bus operators about the use of small buses are confirmed by the news that the R v. A. Sholto-Douglas, vicar of Siddington and Capesthor Cheshire, has bought an Austin 14-seater to take boys to fo that! fixtures, mothers on outings and a variety of oth expeditions.

But operators have no cause to be smug. Shortly aft r Mr. Sholto-Douglas bought his bus it was pressed into servi e to salvage passengers from a coach which had broken down when bringing parishioners back from a harvest festival at Wharton.

Two Minds

THERE was art unfortunate clash of events in London on

Monday, for both the Traders' Road Transport Association and the Institute of Road Transport Engineers chose that date for their annual dinner-dances. That may have been the reason why the attendance at the T.R.T.A.'s function was smaller thah usual, but what was lacking in numbers was made up in the quality of the entertainment. It was one of the few occasions when there was space to dance at Grosvenor House.