What the Associations are Doing
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MORE S.T.R. LECTURE DATES TO NOTE.
Definite arrangements have now been made for two more lectures by S.T.R., The Commer.cial Motor costs expert. On January 18, at 7.30 p.m., he will address members of A.R.O. Forest of Dean Sub-area, and others, at the Miners' Welfare Hall, Cinderford. January 20 will see him at the Mermaid Hotel, Sherborne, where he will talk to A.R.O. Yeciiil Sub-area operators. The meeting will commence at 7.30 p.m.
400 People at Road Exhibition.
Some 400 people, including members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, attended the opening of the B.R.F. road exhibition (reported in The Commercial Motor, last week).. Lord Wolmer, who performed the opening ceremony, was introduced by Mr. Gordon Stewart, who lent the premises of Stewart and Arden], Ltd., for the exhibition, and was thanked by Col. D. C. McLagan, secretary of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Industry Must Stand First.
It was fairly generally agreed that there was cause for some genuine co-ordination of transport activities, said Mr. T. B. Worsley, secretary of the Scottish Joint Conciliation Board, addressing members of the Industrial Transport Association, in Edinburgh.
Attempts made so far were likely to be futile unless accompanied by some measure of compulsion. In exercising their right to say what shape ,coordination should take, operators must be guided, not by the satisfaction of individual interests, nor by the preservation of uneconomic cheapness, but by the general needs of industry.
Highway Engineers Link with B.R.F.
The association of the Institute of Highway Engineers with the B.R.F. brings the number of members of the
latter organization up to 54. The I.H.E. is a new type of member. NOTABILITIES FOR PLYMOUTH DINNER.
Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, M.P., will be the principal guest at A.R.O. Devon and Cornwall Area's dinner, at Plymouth, next month. Major H. E. Crawfurd, president of A.R.O., who will be visiting the area for the first time, Major the Hon. Eric Long, Mr. Maurice Petherkk, M.P., and the Lord Mayor of Plymouth (Aid. Solomon Stephens) will also be present,