FIRST MEETING OF VEHICLE OBSERVER CORPS CONTROLLERS
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Anti-theft measures to be extended THE 1966 campaign against the lorry thief will open with a meeting in London on January 31 of the controllers of the vehicle observer corps. Members of the RHA vehicles security committee will also be present with Mr. J. T. Brown (Atlas Express Ltd.) in the chair.
Plans to extend the activities of the vehicle observer corps will be announced, together with further measures for improving security at all stages, of a vehicle's journey, closer co-operation with the police and encouragement of drivers and other members of the public to assist in the prevention of lorry thefts and detection of the thieves.
The first vehicle observer corps was set up in London. Other corps on the Metropolitan pattern have now been formed in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Derby, Scunthorpe and Grimsby. A system has been adopted for mixed rural and urban areas in Boston, Cambridge, Southampton and Winchester, and in Bucks, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Herts and Kent.
A new one Latest vehicle observer corps is in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where operations began last week. Information about this corps can be obtained from Mr. E. West, Burley Garage, Feather Lane Bank, Horsforth, Leeds.