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Institute of Transport Dinner.
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THE eighth annual dinner of the Institute of Transport, held at the Hotel Cecil, London, on Wednesday last, reflected considerable credit upon the organizing committee and upon the secretary of the Institute, Mr. A. Winter Gray. The proceedings were conducted with a dignity which was consonant with the growing importance of the Institute.
The president, Mr. Roger T. Smith, M.Inst.C.E,.' M.I.Mech.E., past president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, was in the chair, and he was supported by Mrs. R. T. Smith, Lord Daryngton of Witley, Sir Henry Maybury, Sir Ernest Moir, Bart, Mr. E. S. Shrapnell-Smith, Mr. R. H. Selbie, Mr. R. S. Tilling, Mr. E. F. C. Trench (president of the Institute of Civil Engineers), Mr. W. H. Gaunt, Major J. C. Griffiths, Capt. Bristow, Sir Joseph G. Broodbank, Six John R. Brooke, Mr. J. L. Clewes, Mr. A. L. Barber, Sir Herbert E. Blain, Mr. Norman E. Box, Sir Archibald Boyd Carpenter, Mr. W. 3. McCormack, Major Lown, Mr. A. J. Lyddon, Mr. P. Handley Page, Mr. Walter Wolsey, Mr. W. A. Stevens, Col. T. M. Mitchinson, and many others prominent in the world of transport.
The choice of Lord Daryngton to propose the toast of "The Institute" was a considerably happy one and showed much imagination, for Lord Daryngton's great-grandfather was the man who gave the money to Robert Stephenson to enable him to carry the first Railway Bill through Parliament and in whose works the first Stephenson railway engine was built. We hope that the Institute will pursue this idea in future and secure the attendance at its annual dinner of some interesting lint with transport of the past.
In congratulating the Institute upon its accomplishments and its educational work, Lord Daryngton made an interesting survey of transport and itg possibilities, and said that he thought that in the next 25 years we should see wonderful things in transport. He even visioned the possibility of being able to travel at such high speeds that one could leave Europe, sleep in Iceland the same night and on the morrow have one's meals in Tokio, Sydney and Paris, thus circling the globe. Lord Daryngton is interested in the train-ferry service between Zeebrugge and Harwich, and he gave an example of the advantages which this new mode of transport is offering by saying that spring peas are now coming into London from Sicily. They are loaded in the truck which is taken across the Straits of Messina by train ferry, by rail through Europe and again by train-ferry to Harwich, and thence by train to London, without any loss of time and without any intermediate unloading or handling.
. Mr. Smith, in reply to the toast, made two important announcements, viz., that the summer congress will be held in Liverpool, which in fact he hoped would be attractive to shipping People and thus create more interest in the Institute's affairs amongst those engaged in that branch of transport; and, secondly, that Air Vice-Marshal Sir W. Sefton Brancker had been selected as the next president.
Sir Henry Maybury proposed the toast of "The Guests" in very graceful terms, the replies coming from Sir Archibald Boyd Carpenter and Mr. Trench. The former dealt with his visit to the Dominions, and the reply of the latter was a good example of the quietly witty after-dinner speech.