Well-travelled Kiwi
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GEOFF WALSH of Auckland, New Zealand must have travelled farther than any other delegate to reach last week's Institute of Road Transport Engineers' conference at Solihull.
Mr Walsh is the winner of the 1983 E. J. Brenan Memorial Trust Study award and this has given him the chance to spend three months studying road transport all over the world. He timed his visit to the UK to coincide with the IRTE conference and display. His tour has already taken him to Australia, Geneva (to visit International Road Transport Union (IRU), Stuttgart, Brussels (to the EEC), Rotterdam's Europort and Stockholm and Sodertalje in Sweden.
When he left the UK last week he was on his way to Mack's plant at Allentown in the USA and he was planning on spending a month visiting other transport centres in the USA and Canada before returning to New Zealand in July.
Geoff Walsh is currently a transport consultant but when he won the award last year, he was a design engineer working for Steel Brothers, the York Trailer agents in New Zealand.
Mr Walsh spoke briefly to IRTE delegates last week telling them of some recent changes in transport in the Antipodes. When he returns to Auckland, he will present a paper, based on his studies, at several conferences.