Bird's Eye View
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THIS is not the only country with a Lorry Driver of the
Year Competition—they have one in America too. I hear that more than 100 champion lorry drivers from all over the U.S.A. will be competing at the annual National Truck Rodeo at Miami, Florida, from November 14-17. This rodeois presented by the American Trucking Association and its object is to promote road safety. One big difference from our own L.D.o.Y. competition is that at Miami drivers will face a written examination. Questions will be on safety regulations, safe-driving practices, first-aid and fire-fighting.
Action at Last?
THERE may be some action shortly over this reprehensible business about endorsing employers' private driving licences when their vehicles transgress the law. At an introductory lunch on Tuesday, Peter Walker, M.P., the new president of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, promised: " I will have words with the Minister of Transport about this. Perhaps a small, private Member's Bill in the new session. . . ." (think Mr. Walker will make quite a mark on transport!
Nil Desperandurn
ACORRESPONDENT tells me that United Counties Omnibus Co. Ltd., whose headquarters are in Northampton, has refused to display on its vehicles posters submitted by the Bedford Samaritan Group. The latter, by the way, is a body formed to assist anyone thinking of suicide. The posters in question bear the words: " Despair? If you are in despair and tempted to suicide and do not know where to turn, ring Bedford 2200."
Factories and other business premises have agreed to display the posters.
Bonallack Expansion
A PORTRAIT of the late Jacob Bonallack, a CornishI-1 man and founder of the Essex bodybuilding group, gazes sternly down on Sir Richard Bonallack, current chairman of the Bonallack Group, when he is seated at his desk.' I fancy Jacob would have been well pleased with Sir Richard's latest acquisition (see page 42) of the bodybuilding side of Mann Egerton and Co. Ltd., because that company, too, was founded by a Cornishman.
e35 Founded in 1825, Bonallack really can be counted as a pioneer in the use of aluminium alloys for bodybuilding. Their .scope in recent years has been widening considerably. For instance, road tankers were added to the range five years ago; now they turn out about 100 a year. In 1962 the Group acquired northern connections by purchasing Westmoreland Automobiles (now known as Bonallack-Westmoreland Ltd.).
With the inclusion of the refrigerated know-how that Mann Egerton have built up in over 40 years' experience (under the title of Bonallack Mann Egerton (Refrigerated Vehicles) Ltd.), the Bonallack Group really has all-round coverage. Where next, I wonder, will this lively company expand? •
Doubled Up
I AST year the London division of the Industrial Trans.1--a port Association decided to put on a Ladies' Festival. Roughly 180 people attended an excellent function. Last Saturday the London I.T.A. (encouraged by their 1962 success) staged a second Ladies' Festival. This time, there were some 300 people present, almost doubling the previous attendance.
There is, in my view, a considerable place for an association such as the I.T.A. in our transport society. I wish them luck, for they seem to me to be on the up-grade.