"Can Fleets Be Afforded ? "
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" r AN you afford your transport
fleet?" delegates at a conference to be held by Harrow and Wembley Productivity Association on January 5 will be asked. The meeting will take place in the council chamber of the Federation of British Industries, 21 Tothill Street, S.W.1.
There will be six papers and a brains trust. Mr. E. W. Hancock, director of Humber, Ltd., and chairman of Coventry Productivity Association, will open with a talk on the transport industry. Mr. J. H. Francis and Mr. S. J. Squires, of the British Productivity Council's work study team, will deal with work study.
Problems affecting the larger fleet operator will be the subject of a talk by Mr. D. Bowick, district operating superintendent of British Railways at Lincoln. The smaller fleet operator's problems will be dealt with by Mr. J. F. Elkington, director of Sopers of Harrow, Ltd. Mr. Francis will present also "A Pilot Study."
On the workers' side, Mr. F. Eastwood, of the Transport and General Workers' Union, will consider "human problems and the joint approach" to transport. Mr. Hancock will take the chair.