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NEW R.H.A. PROPAGANDA.
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There is a great dearth of wellinformed and practical piopaganda for the road industry, althongh the merits claimed for other forms of transport are brought constantly before the public.
The Road Haulage Association is taking steps to change this position,• and has commenced an important cam
paign. Last Wednesday six_ sandwichmen were engaged to patrol down Whitehall and around the Houses of Parliament, the boards bearing the wording: " Unfair Treatment of Road Transport," and below : "Ask far a Free Pamphlet." One hundred thousand of these pamphlets have been printed. They refer, in particular, to the treatment accorded to the industry by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Another 25,000 have been printed in poster form for exhibition to transport employees and the public, also for distribution amongst members of the retail motor trade. There will be a wholesale circulation of the smaller type to passengers on coaches and buses through the medium of the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association.
Crippling Effect of Oil Tax Already Apparent.
The fact that 250 men had already been thrown out of work as a result of the increased tax on oil fuel was announced by Mr. R. Wood-Whittle, at the annual dinner of the Crewe branch of the Commercial Motor Users Association, on Friday last. Mr. WoodWhittle is managing director of Fodens, Ltd., Sandbach, and he said that this concern had found it necessary to dismiss 250 men as a direct result of the Budget proposals.
The raid on the Road Fund was referred to by the Mayor of Crewe, Alderman W. R. Foulkes, who said that it was a most serious mistake on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He deplored the fact that the roadtransport industry was always the first to suffer wiled increased revenue was required.
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from May 10-18 inclusive :—DocKs:—King George V,
13; Royal Albert, 5; Royal Victoria, 3; Surrey Commercial, 6; West India, 3; South West India, 1; Tilbury, 7; Tilbury Stage, 3; 1V1illwall, 5; London, 2; Purfleet, 1. WHARVES :—Hays, 1; Middleton's, 1; Mark Brown's, 1; Tilbury Jetty, 2; Regent's Canal, 1.
Mobile Weights and Measures Office.
Bury Corporation has put into service a mobile weights and measures office. The van is used as a sub-office and visits outlying districts, eliminating the need for traders bringing their weights and measures to the main office in the Market Hall. The van is also used to carry bulky petrol measui-es to garages.
Mr. A. Prentice, transport manager of Broxburn Co-operative Society, is to take complete charge of the garage and fleet of 40-50 motor vehicles of Dumfries Co-operative Society.
Mr. A. F. Organ, assistant sales manager of Morris Motors, Ltd., flew. to Plymouth, last Friday, in connection with important road-transport developments which are about to take place.
Mr. G. Jackson, who was for several years with Messrs-. Sherwood Brothers, Darlington, has now taken over the position of manager of the Dundee branch of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd.
Mr. R. A. B. Smith, of the Cement Marketing Co., Ltd., will be the president of the Commercial Motor Users Association for 1935-36. Mr. S. Macadam, transport manager, Cadburys. Ltd., becomes president-elect.
Mr. James Grindrod has been elected president of the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners Association of Manchester. The vice-presidents are Messrs.' G, W. Leggott, j. Bramhall, W. Patton, Joseph Clegg, S. Kay and Councillor J. Eastham, Mr. W. V. Hibbert, who has been associated with the Ford company's publicity work for several years, originally in Manchester and in latter years at Dagenhain, has joined H. and J. Quick, Ltd., the well-known Ford dealer, Old Trafford, Manchester, as publicity manager.
Further to the paragraph appearing in our issue for last week, we now learn that Mr. Robert McLeod, whose portrait appears on this " page, has been appointed manager of the transport department of Edinburgh Corporation, in succession to the late Mr. F. A. Fitspayne. He has been at Edinburgh since 1919.
The council of the Institution of Automobile Engineers has commissioned an eminent artist to paint in oils a portrait of Col. R. E. Crompton, C.B., F.R.S„ for presentation to his daughter as a mark of esteem of the founder and first president of the institution, on his attaining the ago of 90 years.
Mr. W. F. Gilbert, B.A., assistant warden at Wellington House, the Ley • land hostel for engineer-apprentices, has secured an appointment as lecturer in mechanical engineering at the Lester Institute, Shanghai. He will sail from England on July 19r. Mr. Gilbert received his training as an engineerapprentice at the Leyland Works.
Failures in Driving Tests.
Up to and including April 27, 22,529 persons had been examined under the new driving tests, of whom 1,863 (8.27 per cent.) failed to satisfy the examiners.