Security Observer Plan
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THE establishment of a Security Observer Corps to assist the police in tracing stolen vehicles was among the proposals put forward at a security demonstration arranged by the Essex County Constabulary, in co-operation with the T.R.T.A., at Colchester last week. The idea came from Mr. J. T. Brown, of the Atlas Express Co., Ltd., who is vice-chairman of the R.H.A. Vehicles' Security Committee.
The police, in addition to alerting their own patrol cars, it is proposed, would inform the contact point of the Observer Corps nearest to the locality of a reported theft so that members could assist by • patrolling with their own cars.
If the stolen vehicle were seen, the observer would inform the police as quickly as possible, taking no direct part in any further action,
Mr. H. T. Lennard
TRIBUTES to the late Mr. H. T. I Lennard were paid in London oft Tuesday by Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority; Mr. Denis McDonnell for the Bar. and Mr, R. C. Oswald for the British Transport Commission. Mr. Leonard was a wellknown road transport consultant and licensing adviser to the Metropolitan area of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. He died last Saturday.
Mr. Muir said that everyone concerned with the work of the traffic courts would be deeply grieved by the news, although they would have known for some time that Mr. Leonard had been ill. He felt a personal loss, for Mr. Lennard had always shown interest in the " little man " and those down on their luck.
He would be missed particularly by that diminishing band of operators wish= ing to replace horses. He seemed as much concerned for the destiny of the horses themselves as for their motor replacements.
Mr. Lennard was one of the few remaining traffic court advocates who had been in pods licensing since it started. He last appeared in the Metropolitan court in July.
NEW G.M. FOR SOUTHDOWN Nfik.•S. J. B. Skyrme, general manager IVI of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. A. S. Woodgate as general manager of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. Skyrme will take over his new position on December 1.
GONGS ILLEGAL
A CCORDING to Traders' Road Trans
portAssociation, proposed new regulations on which the association had been consulted "make it clear that it is illegal to use gongs, bells or sirens, except on vehicles belonging to the emergency services."