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Bird's Eye
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ViewBY THE HAWK
For Art's Sake
WHAT connection has modern art with the commercial vehicle industry? Very little, one would think. But, as will be seen from the pictures on this page of the two works which ERF have on view at their Sandbach works, ERF seems to be "with" the trend for industrial concerns to become patrons of the arts. The startling mosaic is comprised of glazed tiles and vehicle spare parts. Made by London mosaicist, Hans Unger, it measures 4 ft. by 2 ft., and weighs 4 cwt. The work, which rests on a metal shell built into a wall of the company's boardroom, was commissioned by ERF's managing director, Peter Foden. The more abstruse configuration in steel and glass bought in a London gallery, stands in the firm's reception hall. I'm told that everyone who walks in asks the receptionist: "What is it?" She always retorts: "I've no ideal" Apparently this work, with the bashed-in television look, is not meant to depict anything in particular—just an exercise in interesting shapes. Talking of interesting shapes...
Golden Occasion
T SEE that H. W. (Bill) Mousley, one of Coventry's best known 1 hauliers until his retirement, has just celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. He started his business with two friends in 1920 with /75 capital, bought them out five years later and amalgamated with J. Morton and Sons in 1934.
When the business was nationalized in 1949 he pulled out and started a nursery business, but he tells me there was even more work involved than in transport! A one-time chairman of the CMUA, he finally retired in 1955.
Thank You, Ladies
WI-PEN a company has almost inevitably to ask its transport ersonnel to work permanently on night duty it is a sensible gesture to expand the annual safety award presentation into a dinner which also marks a token of thanks to the wives. This is the view taken by Bowyers (Wiltshire) Ltd. (who make meat products at Trowbridge), whose drivers in any case have an aboveaverage safety record. The company presents its drivers with cheques valued according to the number of years they have driven without blameworthy accident, and this year 14 trunk drivers received cheques, RoSPA badges and certificates. The company's trunk vehicles are now averaging more than lm. miles a year.
No Overtime Ban!
DID you see that the two junior Transport Ministers ended the last session of Parliament with real marathon performances? On the last day of business, when MPs were able to raise any matters they wished, the pair replied to six debates, remaining on duty into the early hours of the morning. Mr. Stephen Swingler was first off the mark, when he rose to transport reply to a debate at 4.52 p.m. on ansport in the Slough area.
At 7.57 p.m. it was the turn of Mr. John Morris to deal with
commuters in the south-east, while at 10.16 p.m. Mr. Swingler was on his feet again to talk about port development. He was then able to have a break, while Mr. Morris spoke about a trunk road in the Wirrall (2.4 a.m.) and railways on the Isle of Wight (3.47 a.m.). And to round off transport's long day, at 4.3 a.m. Mr. Swingler —still wondering if any more business lay ahead of him—gave the Ministry's views about traffic in a Shropshire village.
Surprise at the Size
THE Americans came to town in force recently—to the London Hilton for a two-day conference of the National Defence Transport Association—a body of eminent service and civilian transport men. An important section was a panel discussion on containerization in the decade ahead. Of particular interest were the views of three of the speakers—Maj.-Gen. Prior-Palmer, of the new British container consortium, Overseas Containers Ltd.; Mr. A. T. De Smedt, president of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, and Michael R. McEvoy, president of Sea—Land Service Inc. The latter two headed the two containetship companies that will soon be bringing containers in their hundreds across the Atlantic to Europe. Speaking to Michael McEvoy afterwards, colleague Norman Tilsley tells me that he was considerably surprised at the number of pages in COMMERCIAL MOTOR and that it was a weekly.