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By The Hawk
Parcels and smalls delivery rivers have a rotten job getting customers' signatures on elivery of goods these days—a problem, to my mind, made ifinitely worse since the advent of working wives.
My colleague, John Darker, could not resist questioning he two speakers at a recent meeting of the Industrial 'ransport Association, Mr. D. L. Green, of BRS Parcels Ad., and Mr. It F. Belfall, of British Railways (Western legion). Both speakers were well qualified to know the ifficulties but both were adamant that the rule no ignature, no delivery" was rigidly enforced. I suspect this iew reflects managerial wishful thinking, and I'd wager tat a substantial number of delivery signatures—of which ly favourite is "E. Adit "—are considerably less than uthentic. Adit
It will be no surprise to nyone in the vehicle industry who has played golf against immy Lees, p.s.v. sales manager of Leyland Motors Ltd., 3 hear that he won the Golf 'Tournament which followed CA' annual conference at Harrogate. Runners up Mr. Lees, who played off a handicap of six, were Mr. A. )anson, sales manager of East Lancashire Coachbuilders. nd Mr, G. L. Lindsay, chief engineer of Crosville Motor ervices Ltd.
.eyland Winner
1 Fife Feast At a dinner in Dunfermline
n Friday 118 members and guests of the Fife and District 'ipper Operators Association saw Willy Muir (of Walker Iros. (Cowdenbeath) Ltd.) in action for the first time as hairman of the group. One of his first jobs was to present cigarette lighter gift to Bob Wilson, founder chairman of he group.
Speakers were Bill Austin, sales manager of India Tyres Ad., Nelson Smith from the Edinburgh group and olleagtie Norman Tilsley of "CM ".
Actually there were three representatives of India Tyres resent. This and a reference to "overseas visitors" (as he Fifers call people from across the Forth) led to some onfusion on the part of Nelson Smith. Commencing his peech with "Mr. chairman and overseas visitor" he was bserved to be studying the faces of all present trying— s he said afterwards—to identify the Indians from verseag 50,000 in 34 years Someone with a passion for statistics may care to compute how many passengers have travelled M Bedford-based buses and coaches over the years, hut for my part I'm content to remark in passing that the 50.000th Bedford bus and/or coach chassis has just left the Dunstable assembly line. It was a twin-steer VAL bound for Australia, and was produced just 34 years after the first Bedford passenger chassis. a WHB model.
Braking Jubilee Last week saw the Golden
Jubilee of Neate Brake Controls Ltd. and they celebrated the occasion by holding a dinner at the Griffin Hotel, Kingston upon Thames.
In a leaflet accompanying the menu, Mr. R. W. J. Neate, the present chairman, explains how, in 1915, his father invented the first repeat-stroke, lever-action brake control. "It was brought into being by the sheer necessity of providing an efficient braking system to operate from a locomotive on to the brakes of a pantechnicon trailer," he writes. He goes on to say that his father was not an engineer at all, but a highly skilled cabinet maker.