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Mr. H. Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E., known to thousands of operators as S.T.R., of The Commercial Motor, this week retires and thus severs a connection with this journal which began in 1912. In that year he wrote his first article for The Commercial Motor. It was entitled "How to Choose a Chassis at the Show." The exhibition was the illfated Manchester Motor Show, which was burned out before it opened.
He joined the editorial staff of The Commercial Motor in 1914. In 1919 he was appointed organizer of the tractor trials run by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and continued in that office until 1922. He began writing his weekly articles on costing in January, 1920.
Mr. Hall's lectures on costs, which began in 1934 and continued until war broke out, are still rememb6red as masterpieces of their kind.
His weekly articles are being taken over by Mr. S. Buckley, Assoc.Inst.T., and will appear under the general heading, "Planning for Profit." They will deal with general aspects of management, apart from costing and cost recording.
Mr. Buckley, who is 47, is the son of a haulier and began his transport career with the North Western Road Car
Co., Ltd., at Buxton, in 1932. He continued with them until 1941, when he became an assistant trans. port manager of Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners for two years and then served for four years with the former London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the parcels department.
In 1947 he became transport manager of Gilstrop, Earp and Co., Ltd., Newark-on-Trent, with whom he remained until he joined The Commercial Motor last November. Before taking up his present post he was a member of the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport and of the East Midland divisional committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
Mr. Buckley brings to his articles a varied Practical knowledge of transport. He will continue the free postal advisory service on costing which S.T.R. has given to readers of The Commercial Motor for so many years.