Engineers and the new Act
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• Co-operation between professional engineering bodies is needed to provide an agreed wording for a code of conduct, following the introduction of the Industrial Relations Act, said Mr G. E. Liardet, president of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in his address at the agm. Professional employees, he said, were obliged to comply with a recognized code of conduct and this made the Institute's service to members, the majority of whom were professionals, particularly important.
The 1RTE's education and research fund, set up to investigate and advise on the training of transport engineers, had not had the hoped-for support from industry and members, said Mr Liardet, and he appealed for more activity on this front.
His final plea as outgoing president was that the IRTE should become involved in Europe — not only in training transport engineers in European requirements but also in seeking to make contact with European bodies to co-ordinate mutual interests and play a leading part in European road transport engineering.
At the close of the meeting, Lord Chesham was installed as the new president.