ROAD INTERESTS IN THE NEW INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT.
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rE SUGGESTION to establish an Institute of Transport will have the cordial support of all who are interested in the science of movement, and credit for initiating the idea may be accorded to Mr. H. H. Gordon, of the London County Council, and to Sir Albert Stanley, M.P., Sir George Gibb and ethers for fostering it. and helping to develop it to its present stage. •, At present the scheme is overweighted by railway men and railway interests, Whilst the tramways were also strongly represented at the gn.theringwhich Sir Albert Stanley was good enough to bring together. At that gathering we counted but six men who were primarilY. and mainly. concerned With motor .vehicle transport, including . Sir. Wm. Joynson-Hicks, M;P., Mr. H. C. B. Underdown, Mr. S. E. Gareke, Mr. E. S., Shrapnel-Smith, C.B.E., and Mr. Walter Wolsey, Junr., Mr. Outfield not being able to attend. The provisional committee charged -with the preliminary construction work, which will lay the foundations for the new organization, includes • one representative of motor interests, Mr. H. Dutfield. We put it plainly to those who are interested in the advancement and develorfinent of all•that'pertains to road transport that the duty lies on them to. ensure that the interests of that side 'of the Movement -shall play its full part in the creation and in the proceedings of the Institute. The railway and tramway men are strong not inerely" in-numbers but in enterprise and forcefulness and, above all, in their eohesiVetless, and it behoves the road transport men to be Up and doing and to be firmly'holding their own.. encl.-up. At present we must look to Mr. Dutfield to Uphold road interests and to secure their adequate representation on the Council and the various committees which are to be formed by the provisional committee.