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'y The Hawk
Dropping Hints
IVER. ERNEST MARPLES. our Minister, of Transport, is IV]. fond of dropping hints about forthcoming legislation during after-dinner speeches (may 1, incidentally, suggest it is time he thought up some new jokes), and the Public Transport Association dinner was no exception. But I was surprised to hear him telling busmen that loading bans on goods vehicles would be one way of speeding traffic. He then said: "When traders come to see me, arid they will, I hope, Mr. Chairman, I can rely on your support."
I hope Mr. Carling (the P.T.A. chairman) continues to ignore the remark, as he did in his speech following Mr. Marples. No good at all will come of setting one part of the road transport industry at the throats of another part.
Their Mr. Kennedy
A LIVELY and topical note was hit by Mr. Carling when 1—k he referred to " OUR Mr. Kennedy "—Mr. Stanley Kennedy, now enjoying a well-earned retirement. He has been appointed an honorary member of the P.T.A., a rare and richly deserved honour.
Matter of Minutes
SOME of the hazards involved in bus operation are illustrated in a story told by Mr. T. F. McNeill, general manager of Macclesfield Transport. Ltd., whose annual dinner was held last Friday. An inquiry was being held into the demand by afactory's workers that the local bus service frequency should be increased.
.a16 " But," said the chairman o the Commissioners, " if yoi leave work at 12.30 and ther is a 10-minute headway yrii cannot possibly have to wai nearly 20 minutes. After aui the buses leave your stop a 12.30, 12.40 and 12.50."
" Ah, it doesn't work lik that," said the spokesmar
You see, we nip out a bit sharp-like so we're at the come before 12.30, but the 12.30 has usually gone 'cos he has his cui of tea on the way down to town and wants a bit in hand."
"Then you should get the 12.40.
" Ah, now that's the thing.. That chap has his cuppa a the coffee house down the road with the other chap, so h comes in late to the turn and there we've been waiting near] 20 minutes. It's not worth rushing unless there're More buse is it? "
Husth
AQUICK lunch for counsel at Cheltenham one day tat week when Mr. C. Macdonald, acting as Deput Authority, kept the traffic moving at a cracking pace. Hearing started at 10.30. Mr. Macdonald proceeded with the busines of the day till L55 and started the afternoon's work at 2.15.
Next, please!
Calling Mr CrooJ
IT was, perhaps, the intensity with which Mr. Macdonal worked that confused Mr. Crook, of C. Crook and Son: Ivielksham. Mr. Crook, applying for a new B licence for tw vehicles, sat right through the morning proceedings, but fade to turn up after the so-short lunch adjournment, Objector were still in court in the afternoon, but there was no . Mt Crook, so Mr. Macdonald refused the application. Then h had second thoughts, Mr. Crook, he felt, may have misundei stood arrangements with objectors. So he adjourned the casc
Did you have a good lunch, Mr. Crook'?
mental Interlude
ER four years as export director of E.R.F., Ltd., Mr. ter Foden has, as announced in The Commercial Motor, vember 4, become managing director of that company. At e of 30 years this, I feel sure, must make him the :st managing director in the commercial vehicle industry. will certainly make it essential for Mr. Foden to spend t deal of his time at Sandbach. Nevertheless, he tells t he is all out to fix his third appearance in the Monte Rally, although he will not be assisted in that strenuous by one of his own company's products. Recent years tiven him a full share of travelling for, after bein& ed in Germany with R.E.M.E., his duties as ambassador IF. have taken him to many parts of the Continent, and Turkey and South Africa.
thing is certain, he is no "man brought in for the Apart from the Army, all his working life has been ,.R.F.
St. George
EWHERE around mid-January Mr. Tom Lord, general lager of Barrow-in-Furness Transport Department, will /ins that part of the world in readiness for taking up v managership at Leeds on February 1. When he goes, , will lose one who.has given much practical encourage o young men making their first steps in the transport y. Mr. Lord regards the R.S.A. examinations as an ideal for the younger element, but feels that the possibilities connection are being neglected in many areas. The , undertaking has a notably good record in the matter renticc training.
e who know Mr. Lord will be well aware that he can )ut when the occasion demands it, so nobody should be )41 to learn of his keen interest in the Royal Society of irge, an organization that stands up—and speaks up— gland on every possible occasion. Leeds' choice has the city not only transport know-how but some vital asins as well.