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Hard Holidays
wit EMBERS of the transport staff of school meals services IV" take a dim view of friends who make jokes about them getting " teachers' holidays," too. Mr. T. H. Carey, transport officer of the Cheshire School Meals Service, assures me that no cobwebs grow round their garages while children are out at play. In fact, he reckoned that his staff work harder than normal during the school vacation. The great advantage of these breaks, he says, is that they provide definite times when the vehicles can be withdrawn for examination, adjustment and overhaul. Although major work is sent outside, the drivers are kept busy on the routine maintenance.
A clean appearance is an absolute essential for the Meals Service, and the holidays also give suitable opportunities for repainting Cheshire's smart fleet.
Idle Idol
MANY building sites became impassable for lorries during the recent floods. But at one site the transport manager's face crinkled into a smile when he read driver's work-sheet comment: "Standing idol."
Wives Wanted
WORLD travelling has, understandably, a profound
fascination—particularly for the untravelled. " How lucky you are" one's acquaintances say enviously as one arrives home from glamorous cities on the other side of the world. I asked General Clayton, who is featured at the top of this page today, what he thought about it and was not surprised to find that his views coincided with those of many other senior executives engaged in exporting. On a closer view, those farthing cities do not look so entrancing. And a week or so in, iny foreign parts usually suffices to set our trade ambassadors trning for slippers by the home fire.
:ien. Clayton believes there are problems here to be isidered carefully by managements. Some American )orters find it pays to let the wives travel with their husbands the company's expense. British firms do not seem to have en to the system very enthusiastically. They may have to, competition warms up, he thinks. After all, if it is a help to ipatetic sportsmen to have wives along with them, who can ly the same moral support to people who are the mainstay our economy?
edal for Mr. Smith
MEDAL for meritorious conduct is due to Mr. J. M. A. Smith, who gave last week's Henry Spurrier Memorial :lure to the Institute of Transport in London. Engaged on imess in America on behalf of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd. is a director), Mr. Smith flew to Britain specially for the ture. He flew back again two hours after delivering it to the titute.
'ity, therefore, Sir Henry Spurrier, the Leyland Motors chief. s in memory of his famous father that the lecture is arranged. Henry was baulked from attending, although he set out m Leyland to do so, because of fog.
quisition
â– I BEN News, the organ of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund, it is reported that, at the Motor Show, general secretary and staff were kept busy answering all ts of queries ranging from "Where can I put my coat?" to jot any free samples?"
Ioor Ben. We know how it is, yet we would not feel happy nople did not come up to us with those queries.