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His Big Disappointment

18th October 1957
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By The Hawk

LORD NUFFIELD. who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, has had one great disappointment in his long life. It is his inability to found a technical engineering college at Oxford. He is not dissatisfied with what is being done at Nuffield College, but he keenly regrets that Oxford is only just beginning to meet the country's urgent need for technicians and engineers, whereas had he been able to found the sort of college he had in mind, it Would by now haw: been in full operation. .

During the past 30 years Lord Nuffield has given away more than 127m., and he still attends his office daily to

supervise his charitable trusts. He might have been a surgeon if the need to earn his own living had not made him an employer at the age of '16, but with his wealth and compassion he has been able to do more for humanity than any surgeon. In the motor. industry his name will always , be revered for his generosity to the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund.

B.R. Show the Way

OOKING through "Facts and Figures About British 1-4 Railways" for 1957, I was reminded of the dearth of data on road haulage. The British Road Federation issue a valuable little compendium "Basic Road Statistics," but it is circumscribed by its title. A little—but only a little— information is given about British Road Services in the British Transport Commission's annual reports, but the public know nothing of the extent of free road haulage.

The Road Haulage Association are trying to repair the omission by the appointment of an information officer, .Mr. J. G. F. Bellamy, to collect data on the road haulage industry. He is, however, entirely in the hands of members and I hope they will aSsist him to gather much-needed information that can be used to defend and promote hauliers' interests.

Dead on Their Feet

"Ihas come to the attention of the management that I employees have been dying on the job and either refusing or neglecting to fall over," says a notice now circulating in a commercial-vehicle factory. "This practice must cease. Any employee found dead on the job in an upright position will be immediately dropped from the pay roll.

" in future, if any foreman notices that an employee has made no movement for a period of two hours, it will be his duty to investigate, as it is almost impossible to distinguish between death and natural movements of some employees.

Foremen are instructed to make careful investigation. Holding a pay packet in front of the suspected person is considered the authentic test, but there have been cases known where the natural instinct has been so deeply embedded that the hand of the employee has made a spasmodic clutch even after rigor mortis has set in."


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