BoT jibs at ' ITE'
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• The increase in membership of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers during 1968—by 666 to a total of 4,672--was a source of great satisfaction, said the president, Mr. G. E. Liardet, at yesterday's annual general meeting. It had been achieved, he stressed, without any reduction in membership standards.
Commenting on the long discussions by the 41 incorporated engineering institutes about titles such as -registered technician engineer", Mr. Liardet said it was the worth of the younger man which needed to be established by meaningful titles. He hoped that the efforts to establish a national title, supported by the Council of Engineering Institutions, would result in a ladder of progress to Chartered Engineer for the young man, rather than an artificial barrier between
two classes of engineer because of their different backgrounds of attainment.
Welcoming the probability of higher (voluntary) grades of transport manager's licence, the president said that the IRTE had had difficulty in persuading the trade associations and the traffic institutes of the importance placed on roadworthiness and the sustained mechanical condition of commercial vehicles.
Mr. Liardet revealed that the delay in the Board of Trade's approval for the new title of Institution of Transport Engineers was because a department of the Board contended that eliminating the word -Road" would permit too wide a coverage of transport engineering. Negotiations were continuing he said, but there was no question of the IRTE diluting its interest in road transport.