SCANNELL LORRIES' HIGHER PROFIT FOR 1943 IN respect of 1943,
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Scammeli Lorries, I Ltd., is paying a dividend of 8i per cent., less tax, compared with 7i. per cent, for the previous year. The profit for the year amounted to £233,933, £38,875 more than that for 1942.
ROAD ACCIDENTS CAN BE, PREVENTED, SAYS MINISTER " THAT road accidents can be prevented has been shown," said Mr.. P. J. Noel-Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of . War Transport, speaking at the opening of a "Safety First " exhibition at Manchester, last week. " In Salford the problem has been tackled for 15 years. In 1928 36 people were killed and 730 injured, but • ,despite the fact that traffic doubled during the next 10. years drastic measures to prevent accidents reduced the figures in 1938 to 17 killed and 378 injured. Traffic was doubled yet accidents were halved.
" I have had private hints from people who should know better that the importance of toad accidents is being overdone in view of accidents in
other. spheres, Such an argument meant that the death,s of nearly 70,000 people in 10 years and the injury and 'maiming of 2,500,000 more was 110 more than a natural and inevitable consequence of modern rife, to be accepted without complaint and with
out introducing measures to keep the figures down."
Referring to road safety measures to. be introduced after the war, Mr. NoelBaker said that . a short-term programme. to be followed by a long-term programme was to be submitted to the Minister. The •short-term programme was to apply to the interim period immediately after the war when a flood of motor vehicles would return to the roads. In connection with the longterm policy he thought there was no doubt about some of the measures to be taken, amongst them being the segregation of different kinds of traffic.
• Improved measures for the maintenance of vehicles were also needed.
USEFUL BOOKLETS ON FUEL SAVING.
Two TWO useful Fuel and Efficiency' Bulletins, Nos, 29 and 30, issued, free, by the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Coal Division), Dean Stanley Street, London, S.W.1, or from the regional offices of the Ministry, deal with the industrial use of compressed air and the unorthodox use of economizers.
The.first should be particularly useful in our industry, which employs a considerable'.amount of compressed air for various purposes. Being cool, invisible and non-inflammable, compressed air lends itself to waste and is often flagrantly misused, every loss_ meaning extra fuel. LONDON DRIVERS WIN MANY SAFETY-FIRST AWARDS
DURING 1943; 341 of the drivers cf the Gas Light and Coke Co, qualified for awards in the Drivers' Freedom from Zacident . Competition organised bythe Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Of these, 283 were drivers of petrol vehicles, 31 of steamers, and 27 were hotse carmen. Two of the men had comPleted 20 years four 15 yeats, ten 10 years, and eighteen .5 years of driving without a blameworthy accident. The awards were made by Mr. Brian Wood, secretary of the Gas Ligot and .Coke Co.
PRESENTATION TO ROAD AND RAIL CONFERENCE MEMBER
AT its_ recent meeting, members of the Western Regional Committee of the Road and Rail Central Conference made a .presentation of a smoker's outfit to Mr. R. G. Barefoot, of the G.W.R., on his retirement from business and the committee. When the Conference was first set up in 1939, he was the first chairman for the rail panel. The presentation was made. jointly on behalf of road and rail members by Mr. A, F. Wills and Mr. G. S. Rider, who both spoke highly of the serviCes which Mr. Barefoot had. rendered to the Conference. Captain G. A. .P. Upston and Mr. G. S. Rider were elected chairmen for the ensuing year, for the road and rail panels respectively.