CM prize winner from Scotland
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• Edinburgh area manager of Inter-city Transport and Trading Co Ltd, Thomas P. Cook, has won the £25 Commercial Motor prize in the Royal Society of Arts examinations for the diploma in road transport. Mr Cook gained the highest marks of any hire-and-reward haulage employee in the Road Transport Operation (Goods) papers I and II.
Mr Cook was a candidate at Telford College of Further Education, Edinburgh; on page 68 of this issue he records some of his views on and experiences of transport education.
The highest aggregate of marks in any five papers was achieved this year by Robert W. Reid, from the same college, who is a transport assistant with D. B. Marshall (Newbridge) Ltd.
Highest placed passenger company employee in the RSA exams was Muriel Watts, a clerical assistant with London Country Bus Services. She received the NBC prize.
The terminal superintendent of Charringtons Ltd, London, George J. Smith, won the NFC prize for the hire-and-reward employee to achieve highest aggregate in five papers including Road Transport Operation (Goods). As his employer is an RI-IA member, he also received the RHA prize.
The Worshipful Company of Carmen's Herbert Crow prize went to Mr Reid of D. B. Marshall (Newbridge) Ltd.
Hubert W. J. Chapman, a clerk at Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd, qualified for the FTA prize, while Robert A. Cooper, a road inspector with London Transport, was awarded the LT E prize.
The APPTO Award this year went to Christopher P. Youhill, a psv driver with Leeds City Transport, while the APPTO Danum Award was given to John Hodgson, a schedules clerk with Tyneside PTE.
Only two of the three prizes offered by the SRPTA were awarded this year. They went to William L. McGowan, depot inspector with Western SMT, and George MeInally, a ticket inspector with Eastern Scottish -and another Telford College, Edinburgh, candidate.