Bramcote Confirmed for Drivers' Contest
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proposal to hold the final of the Ty Driver of the Year CompetiBramcote, instead of Baginton, on )er 20, was confirmed last week national organizing committee, eision was taken despite onerous ns laid down by the War Office. n the camp at which the competi1 be staged.
ether 110 drivers have qualified final. Entrants from each centre regarded as a team and will comr a special team award to be d by the organizing committee. chairman's casting vote it was that rear windows of cabs should ,lacked out for the final. but the will be reconsidered for next Datest. Diagrams of the tests will be published in The Commercial Motor on September 18. The clerk of the course. who has designed the tests, will again be Mr. G. Aston. Stewards will be Mr. G. MacAulay, Mr. B. Miller and Mr. G. A. Morgan. The organizers will provide the vehicles to be used by the class champions to decide the Lorry Driver of the Year.
In two of this year's rounds the class winners were driving vehicles that had been wrongly, classified. These drivers will be allowed to compete in the final if they provide themselves with vehicles appropriate to the classes in which they were entered.
The organizing committee were told that Finchley Road Safety Committee
were interested in promoting an eliminating centre for north London. The Slough committee objected to this proposal on the ground that competitors would be diverted from their competition (see " Bird's Eye View," page 45).
Stepney Road Safety Committee are also thinking of establishing a centre in cast London at the request of local operators. Mr. E. Chandler, Stepney's road safety officer, attended the national committee meeting.
Among matters deferred for future consideration were the setting up of regional finals next year. from which competitors in the all-England final would be selected, and the constitution of the national committee as a legal entity.