Bird's Eye View The Man for the Job
Page 55
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
By The Hawk
rp-M Road Haulage Association's annual conference is I probably the keenest test of the national chairman's ability. Mr. R. N. "Ingram, presiding for the first time at last week's event, did so with distinction. His guiding hand was always present but never obvious. He brought dignity to his task and his opening address was widely, hailed by delegates as a model of factual statement and sincerity not always to be found in those occupying such positions..
During the next 18 months, the R.H.A. will be in special need of an able chairman. Men-ibers should consider themselves fortunate in having one.. If they want their organization to remain democratic, they will cast aside thoughts of a paid president.
Rail Good
APLEASANT welcotne to the conference at Torquay awaited the delegates, for a small gift from the Devon and Cornwall Area was placed in each hotel bedroom with the message, " Us be mortal glad to zee 'ee and us hopes you'rrt gwain to 'ev a rail good time They did—with the reservation that the good tirne wag more road than rail.
Inside Information
likAR. W. MORTON, the East Midland Area Secretary, proudly LVI arrived with his small daughter, whose :perambulator, parked outside the hotel, somehow during the evening acquired a poster, "Full report of this event next Friday—The Commercial Motor."
Transatlantic Exchange
THERE was a great deal of talk about American furnitureremoval practice at the recent autumnal conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers in London, but apparently the Americans think they can learn something from us.
Mr. George McIntosh, managing director of the noted Glasgow removal concern bearing bis name, is on a month's
visit to the U.S.A. at the invitation of the New York Furniture and Removal Association. He is telling members how removals are done in Britain. To gratify the American adolescent penchant for dressing up he is delivering his talk wearing a dinner jacket of the McIntosh tartan, whieh he intends to present to the Association.
Target for Tonight
FOR most people a day at the seaside is sufficient stimulus in itself. But at a recent Manchester traffic court one witness stoutly claimed, "If I can't get home from Blackpool before the local shuts, so I can get me livener, I'd rather not go at all."
Mr. H. Backhouse: " If we have unlimited duplication you'll be able to have a double."
Even animals exercise their influence on traffic demands. One woman witness insisted that precise timings were important. "I've got. to get back to give pussy his tea."
Larger than Life
HAVE you noticed that the names on the fronts of vehicles are growing larger? The reason is presumably that, with the general loss of distinctive outline, the only way to identify. a make is to blazon its name in letters of fire. But there is still. this to be said for most commercial vehicles—one at least can tell the front from the back..
The Sassenach
D EADERS may have noticed that the alleged destination of the Leyland Atlantean, road tested by The Commercial Motor and reported last week, was Gorbals' Cross. This caused slight confusionto a couple who were discussing the bus at
an inn where John Moon stopped for lunch. It must be for export," one of them said.
All at Sea
PLAYER'S have introduced the ideal vehicic to deal with the English climate. It is in the guise of a paddle steamer. 1321