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1-"k A HIGHLY successful initial venture in running a transport managers' course reached conclusion at the Luton College of Technology on Tuesday, but plans to repeat and expand ideas for training in transport at the college must lie on the table almost certainly until next year, possibly beyond then, owing to lack of a course tutor.
The man who "put over" the present course—Mr. A. J. Briscoe—is leaving to take up a new appointment at the South Dorset Technical College. Weymouth, where he plans to develop his ideas for extending the scope of instruction in transport matters.
The problem that faces the head of the department at Luton—Mr. D. J. Gold— is that the vacancy thus created has general terms of reference (business, management and liberal studies) and there is no provision for a full-time specialist in transport.
Discussing the situation with The Commercial Motor, Mr. Gold agreed that one answer would be a pool of experts operating perhaps on a regional basis, because other towns would have similar problems. There would seem to be scope here for the transport associations to give backing to some such demand.
The hold up after such a promising start may mean, too, deferment of plans to revive graduate instruction for the Institute of Transport and an Industrial Transport Association course. • In addition an Army unit at Aldershot has asked to join in the next course and has suggested that it might be blockrelease so that officers could be sent for an eight-day concentrated period.
In view of past lack of interest in transport Mr. Gold was surprised at the good response to the course just ended, the wide area concerned being attributed considerably to advance notices in The Commercial Maim..
There was an average attendance of 44 at the course, with executives representing large and small A-, Band C-licensed operators and some passenger interests from as far afield as Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire, Berkshire; Kent and Hampshire.
The field covered—from basic management and organization to workshop and factory problems, the law, modern equipment and operation under various licences—was vast. The participants were invited to comment in detail to assist in the planning of future courses.
The move to Dorset in September. of 50-year-old tutor Mr. A. J. Briscoe should give impetus to transport training in the south. His terms of reference cover management generally and he expects to run a transport managers' course and courses for traffic operators, foremen and drivers, the last two being perhaps on block-release lines. If there is a demand, Institute of Transport and industrial Transport Association courses
will be arranged. G.P.