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• Mrs. Ethel Goodman, governing director of Goodman's Transport Ltd., Oundle Road, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, is starting a haulage business again. She closed the company down in May after her drivers went on strike following a dispute about the sacking of a tanker driver. Her first driver in the revised business is her foreman, who was not affected by the dispute.
• Membership of the Institute of Transport rose from 11,969 to 12,119 during the year ended September 30. This is revealed in the annual report published this week. In the graduateship and associate membership examinations, 1,920 candidates worked 5,740 papers at 60 centres and 794 were successful. Awards totalling £649 were authorized from the Henry Spurrier Memorial Fund during the year.
• Designed to explain the metric system and its applications in industry and commerce, an exhibition called "Going metric" will be opened on February 10 by Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Minister of Technology, at the Design Centre, 28 Haymarket, London SW1. During the exhibition a programme of half-day seminars for engineering management is being arranged by the Council of Industrial Design.
• The Gowring Group has amalgamated Lovejoy Brothers Ltd., vehicle body repairers, and Modern Vehicle Construction Ltd., bodybuilders and repairers. The new company, known as Modern Vehicle Constructors Ltd., has as its chairman Mr. G. Mender. The two companies, now one, are on nearby sites in Commercial Road, Reading.