Six Trophies for Railway Drivers
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QIX silver cups have been presented
by the Company of Veteran Motorists to the British Transport Commission to be competed for each year by drivers of British Railways' goods and parcels vans.
Within each railway region the cup will be awarded to the district which makes the best improvement upon its accident figures. The railways have about 15,000 vehicles, most of which operate in highly congested areas. About 80 per cent. of the drivers enter the national safe driving competition, and in 1954 it was reckoned that the cost of accidents was less than £4 per vehicle per year.
In that year, over 3,250 drivers gained awards, Manchester employees securing 852, London 589, Liverpool 388, Birmingham and Derby 215, and Wolverhampton 214.
Mr. Alfred Alderman, of Broad Street goods depot, London, gained a brooch for 30 years' accident-free driving.
EAGLE BUY ALWAYS
A CONTROLLING interest in I-1 Always Welding, Ltd., Ash, near Aldershot, bodybuilders and constructional steel fabricators, has been acquired by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd. The reconstituted board comprises Mr. D. G. Palmer, chairman; Mr. A. J. Rice, managing director and works director; and Mr. H. Roberts, secretary.
Eagle already have another subsidiary concern, of precision engineers, J. F. Buckingham, Ltd., Kenilworth, Wa rwicks.
f2m. OF GOODS LOST YEARLY
ON an average, the British Transport Commission lost goods in transit to the value of over £2m. every year, mostly because of theft, it was stated at Willenhall last week. Six men pleaded guilty to stealing from the Gypsy Lane depot of British Road Services. One was jailed and the others were fined.