}IOW WOMEN ARE TRAINED IN LONDON TRANSPORT'S WORKS MEARLY 500 women of the TOO who
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have entered London Transport's bus overhaul works as labourers are now doing semi-skilled tasks. Coming from a variety of -occupations some special tuition is essential to fit them for their new work and a school of instruction has been established under the control of an experienced engineer.
First cornea training in the principles of " Safety First." Next, the women are taught to use simple tools, such as hammers, screwdrivers and spanners; elementary filing is included, Women who are later to work on the assembly bench are given assembly jobs to do.
Each class comprises about eight students and instruction lasts for a fortnight. Then follows the second stage of the training. The women are placed in the shops. They work under the supervision of the men whom they will ultimately release for military service, or for more important work.
In short, three months from entering the preliminary class, the raw recruit has usually qualified as a semi-skilled worker and the training is complete.
LUNCH-HOUR PAPER BEFORE YORKSHIRE INSTITUTE
THE Yorkshire District of the Institute of Fransport will open its new session with a lunch-hour meeting on November 4. at the Great Northern Hotel, Leeds. Mr. E. W. Arkle, Assistant Goods Manager, NorthEastern Area, of the London and North Eastern Railway, will give a paper entitled " Some Effects of the War on the Transpert Systems of the Belligerents."
TRANSPORT DANCE HELPS ' MERCHANT NAVY
MOTWITHSTANDING black out 1 11 conditions and transport restrictions, which he so sternly propounds, the North-east Regional Transport Commissioner, Major F. S. Eastwood, with members of his staff and other helpers achieved a great success last Saturday with the first of a series of 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. dances which are being held at the Queen's Hotel, Leeds, as part of road-transport's efforts in the Region to help the Merchant Navy Comforts Fund. The profit exceeded 2100.
PAPER IN BATTLEDRESS: VALUABLE EXHIBITION .
THOSE who visited the exhibition, 1 " Design for Economy—Paper in Battledress," sponsored by the Waste Paper Recovery Association, and held 4 last week in the ballroom of the Savoy Hotel, will undoubtedly have learnt many useful tips and have seen what some of our most important businesses and Government Departments are doing to help in the conservation of paper.
There were many ingenious devices to save cardboard in packaging, and numerous examples of reductions in the size of Government and business forms. One interesting suggestion that we noted was the snipping of paper from the sides of letters before filing them. The Ford exhibit was particularly instructive, and it showed how certain forms which it had been thought impossible to reduce in size hid been successfully reproduced in miniature.