More Professional Engineers are Needed
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EMPHASIZING the need for qualified engineers to be employed in road transport, IL, Mr. A. S. Bryant, fleet engineer of the Reed Paper Group, told a Kent area meeting of the T.R.T.A. on Wednesday that the role of the fleet engineer in this context could be cornpared with that of a doctor examining, advising and listening to patients in order to diagnose their symptoms. Both were professional men, but regrettably the engineer, unlike the doctor, was too often regarded as a necessary evil by his patients despite the vitally important rtilehe had to play.
Again, unlike the doctor; the engineer had very little chance of saying "see how you get on till next week ", because if his patients were not in a roadworthy condition they became potential killers. Commenting on how road transport would suffer because of a general failure to accept the need for qualified engineers, Mr. Bryant pointed out that for small operators there were engineers and associations from whom advice could be obtained; they did not have to employ engineers themselves,