Transport Men in Birthday Honours
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nNLY a few major honours were
bestowed on men well known in the transport world in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Mr. Anhui Deakin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, was made a Privy Councillor for his services to the trade union movement, and Mr. Stanley Bell, director of Seddon Motors, Ltd., Oldham and Son, Ltd., and other companies, was made a Knight Bachelor.
The list includes the following:— "£18m. FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTS"
"THE Ministry of Transport should press the Treasury to sanction the spending of Mtn. on the conversion of all gas street-lighting installations to electricity within a period of five years," said Mr. W. J. Jones, director of the Electric Lamp Manufacturers' Association, on Monday, at Eastbourne.
DIFFERENCE OF £250 IT has been suggested that £250 would I be a more reasonable figure than £400 for the difference between the cost of an oil-cngined and a petrol-engined refuse collector. Mr. H. Scott Hall dealt with the operating costs of these vehicles in last week's issue.
HAIFA ASSEMBLY PLANT
AN assembly plant is to be established near Haifa as a joint venture by the American G.M.C., Ford and Chrysler concerns. Commercial-vehicle chassis will be assembled there for local and export markets.