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IT is claimed that the only busmen's Rugby team in the country is that associated with Thomas Tilling, Ltd. This club is now completing its first season under the captaincy of Mr, D. Mackintosh, of Tilling's technical staff and of the old Alleynians. A photograph of the team was sent to us a few days ago and, without being too flattering, we can refer to them as looking doughty opponents. Up to March 31st the team had won 10 games lost 10 and drawn one. We are glad to note this development, as there Is nothing like companionship in sport to promote concord during the .course of work.
THE waning of the manufacturers' interest in the
C.M.U.A. parade on the last day of March was very patent. A year or two ago the makers at one of their conclaves decided no ,longer individually to subscribe to the fund which had supplied the money 'prizes, for the drivers of the winning and other teams, and, instead, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed to make a grant of £250 a year to the Asaociatioato cover -the whole of the parades of the country. After this year, we believe, that contribution will cease. It has been usual at the London parade to meet a strong, contingent of the trade. Sir John E. Thornycroft, Mr. Toni Thornycroft, Mr. Seabbaoke and Mr, Puddifoa, all of Thornycrofts, were regular visitors. Mr. Spurrier and Mr. Arthur. W. Windsor, of I.,eylancls, Mr. Pengelly, of the Associated Daimler Co., and many others used, ,'by their presence, to make the afternoon more
el8 agreeable. But at the last parade the trade was represented by Major Lown, of Tilling-Stevens and Mr. Windsor and two of the London staff of Ley-. lands. Actually, the oil trade had many more representatives present than the vehicle industry.
AT the parade Major E. G. Beaumont, this year's
president of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, walked up to Mr. C. M. V. Ambler, who is transport manager for Sh.ell-Mex, Ltd., and, shaking hands, said "Well, Ambler, I hope I see you in the pink I" Ambler, for a moment looked shocked, and then replied, " Sir, surely you know we don't sell Ethyl:"
THE fact that the Ulster Roads Improvement Bill
has passed its second reading without a division does not mean that it will have an easy passage through Parliament. A very largenumber of amendments has been put down for the Committee stage, for, although the Bill contains many admirable and overane ,provisions, it also contains certain clauses against which strong opposition, is developing. For example, Clause V empowers county councils, on which railway and other reacl tionary interests and influences are unduly represented; to close third-class roads against any form of motor traillc to which they may object as being, in their opinion, " unsuitable " for such roads, and to do this without notice.
• Another clause to which exception is taken em • powers such bodies as the Belfast Corporation to purchase ground for public parking places and to
7 . charge . fees, for such accommodation,. It, is feared by the Belfast motor agents, who have Investeda great deal of money in the provision 'of garages convenient to the commercial centre of the city, that these municipal parking places will be gradually turned into municipal garages for the purpose of adding to the municipal revenue, a form of trade ri valry which does not commend itself to the ratepaying motor agents of the northern capital. It is to be hoped that the opposition to Clause V which is rapidly developing in the menaced rural areas, and the opposition to the parking-places proposal which is being expressed with much vigour by the Belfast motor traders, will be able to make themselves effectively felt in the division lobbies, if not upon the minds of the members of theUlster Government.