Inst. of T. Tribute to Technical Press
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LAST week the Institute of Transport held the second of what it is hoped will be regular annual lunches given to members of the Trade and Technical Press. The President, Sir William Wood, was in the chair.
Sir William expressed. the gratification of the Institute for the Sustained support given by the Technical Press. He pointed out that the Institute was founded in 1919 and would, therefore, shortly be celebrating its silver jubilee; it had already had experience of one post-war period and was now preparing to face another which would present new and bigger problems, to the solution of which all must lend a hand. He made several witty allusions to his earlier experiences in the transport world.
Mr. J. A. Kay asked his listeners to bear in mind the essential difference between the lay and specialized Press. This difference, he thought, was apparently not fully recognized by many business and industrial concerns, the liaison affairs of which were tending, more and more, to be put into the hands of Press Relations Officers, who, with misplaced impartiality, treated the
Press as a single body. But, said the speaker, this was neither a correct nor justifiable attitude. In the first place, matter suited to the daily Press was often not of a character required by the specialized Press,. the needs and intricacies of which were often closed books to the P.R.O. It was necessary that the Trade and Technical Press maintain its right and be given facilities to contact, directly, the responsible authorities and heads of businesses and industries in order that the views of these concerns might be truly interpreted and presented first hand.
Here Sir William Wood expressed his utmost willingness to receive any suggestions ,as to help which the Institute of Transport might give to the specialized Press, so that difficulties of the kind referred to might be avoided. • Mr. J. S. Nichol], C.B.E., past president of the Institute, referred to the inseparable links which bind together all modes of communication; a topical note was struck when he referred to the vital part played by all classesof transport in the victorious course of the campaign which the United Nations were conducting.