FUNCTIONS OF AGRICULTURAL' J.S.C. EXPLAINED
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ALL sections of the 'argiculturalengineering industry are to be represented on a new joint 'standing Committee ofthe Agricultural Engineers Association to which we have already referred.
It will include representatives of this Association and of the S.M.M. and T. (Agricultural Tractor Section) ; the Agricultural Machinery Dealers' Association; Scottish Agricultural
Machinery Association ; National, Federation of Ironmongers; Machine, Knife and Allied Trades Association, and of firms ,not --previously affiliated to any trade society.
Sir Donald Vandepeer presided at a meeting of manufacturers of agricultural machinery, convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on January 8, when he explained the consultative and advisory functions which it is hoped the new Committee • will fulfil. He emphasized that, at the present juncture, it is important teat there should be a single body to represent the industry, in order to facilitate communication between it and the Ministry.
The secretary of the Agricultural Engineers' Association, Mr: H. J.
▪ Lloyd, 1, Broad Street Place, London, E.C.2, will also act as secretary of the new Joint Standing Committee.
LINCOLN OPERATORS' TOKENS TO MINISTRY OFFICIALS D,OAD-TRANSPORT operators in the I% Lincoln district have presented tokens of esteem to two Ministry of War Transport officials who have left the district on promotion. Mr. L. Willment, who was District Transport Officer at Lincoln until his transfer to Ministry headquarters, has i-eceived a gold watch from the Lincolnshire Transport Association, group organizers, and the District Transport Committee. A cheque was the farewell gift which members of the Association presented to Mr. S. E. Smith, formerly Vehicle Examiner at Lincoln. The presentations were made by Mr. Fred Hunt, chairman of the Association, who spoke of the ability and fairness with which the two officials had carried out their duties. „In responding, Mr. Wilhnent and Mr. Smith said their work in the district had been made easier by the spirit, of reasOnableness and the desire to give a " square deal," which animated the operators generally. They particularly thanked Mr. Jesse Hind, honorary secretary of the Lincolnshire Transport Association, for the valuable help he had gived•them.
. CAN STAMP PAPER BE HALVED?
WE propose to save paper ourselves VY this week by saying very little about the paper-saving campaign, ' beyond drawing attention to its extreme importance to so many vital branches of our armament programme.
One of our little suggestions, which we recently embodied in a letter to ",The Times," was that all_ postage stamps in common use should be doubled in price ahd split diagonally into halves for.affixing to letters. To prevent misuse of those already purchased, fresh issues could be overprinted with a line indicating where the cut should be made.
PERSONAL PARS Mn. W. WALLACE, a director of Dodge Brothers (Britain) Ltd., has now returned to business after his lorig illness, and when we had the pleasure. of meeting him „a feiV days, ago, we were glad to fin& him looking his old self.
Mn. T. A. 2,1cDowari, the wellknown South-east London haulier, who, as we announced .some time ago had rejoined the Royal Merchant Navy as an officer, had the good fortune to. be able to call at Hollywood to see his son Roddy, wha, as is widely lknown, is a fihn star of considerable fame. He is, in fact, stated to be the biggest English boy success since Freddie Bartholomew. TYRa TAX TROUBLES TERMINATED
NAANY difficulties have been experiIYI enced with the effects of the Purchase Tax on the smaller ranges of tyres. The larger types were not included. -The trouble was that many Of the smaller commercial vehicles employ tyres which are of the same size as used on a large number of private cars. Difficulty has also arisen in connection with the retreading of tyres. ,for if their identity was lost, Purchase Tax had to be paid.
Now all these troubles will come to an end because the Treasury issued an Order on January 9, that the Purchase Tax will cease to be chargeable on all tyres,whether pneumatic or solid..
PART-TIME LABOUR FOR THE
BUS INDUSTRY 8 SUGGESTED .employment of parttime labour to relieve• the labour shortage in the passenger road-transport industry was discussed last week by the Joint Industrial Council for the municipal section of the industry in London. The question of part-time working conditions was considered and the matter will again come before the Council. on January 22.
Mr. Vane Morland., transport manager of Leeds Corporation, who attended, says the idea principally concerns con ductresses. Difficulties attaching to part-tire labour are not easily solved, he says, but something must be done to secure more workers.
"NATIONAL OMNIBUS" MAKES /90,000 ' PROFIT
ACCOUNTS of the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., show a profit for 1941 of £90,037, the total being increased to £121,996 by the balance brought forward. The dividend on the preference shares for the year took £17,500 and a 54 per cent. (tax free) dividend on the ordinary shares will absorb 468,750, and when this sum and £5,%99 allocated to, the general reserve are deducted, there remains a balance of £30,257 to be carried forward.
The profits of each of the three associated companies were higher than for the previous year, bit through the incidence • of taxation, the dividend in each case was lower.
. PLEASANT APPRECIATION OF WORKERS' EFFORTS
ON of the most cheerful functions which we have attended during recent months was that arranged by Andre (Components), Ltd., 38, Felsham Road,. Putney; London, S.W.I.Ci, for the benefit of the staffs of that company and its associated concern, Silentbloc, Ltd. It took the form of a, dance tea with an excellent cabaret, which was held at Porchester Paddington, London, W.2, lasr Sauk. day, and Nyas aLtended by some 400 people. It was pointed out that the staffs had Itvorked right through the air. blitz on London, and had steadily increased their output. They therefere, well deserved this pleasant break.