Look Alive !
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A STRONG drive to step up training I-1 schemes for every class of road user in this country began on Monday with the launching of the 1961 National Personal Responsibility Campaign—" Be Alive to Others on the Road."
The campaign, which lasts until the end of September, is organized by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in conjunction with the Ministry of Transport and the Scottish Home Department, and for this year it has three main objects.
At the opening meeting of this campaign, Mr. Marples, Minister of Transport, said that the Government was anxious to distinguish between penalty and disqualification for infringements of law, but that for the future driving convictions would be divided into three classes.
• At the end of the meeting, Mr. Marples presented awards to the first drivers to have achieved 40 consecutive years' safe driving in the National Safe Driving Competition. They were Mr. G. W. Choat, of British Road Services (Contracts), Ltd., and Mr. R. E. B. Oram, of British Railways (Eastern Division) 'ELECTRICS MERGER
MEGOTIAT10NShave now been 11 completed for Austin Crompton Parkinson Electric Vehicles, Ltd., to take over the entire electric vehicle business of T. H. Lewis, Ltd., of Watford.
The take-over arrangements, expected to be complete by June -1, next, will provide for the continued production of the " Electruk Rider" and the " Electruk " pedestrian-controlled vehicle in their present form, and the full availability of spare parts for both models.
Both companies emphasize that every effort will be made to avoid inconvenience to those who have orders on hand for these vehicles.