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New Source of Influence A ROAD-TRAFFIC section of the PI

27th September 1935
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Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has been formed and, at the inaugural meeting, on September 20, Mr. L. W. Gupwell, chairman of the West Midland Area of the Associated Road Operators, was elected chairman, and Mr. S. Macadam, local chairman of the Commercial Motor Users Association, vicechairman.

Major F. W. Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce, addressed the meeting and extended a welcome to the representatives of the various concerns which had joined the new section. He said that there was no doubt of the scope for such a section. During recent years road transport had developed into one of the dominant industries of the country and its importance is being increasingly recognized by the legislature.

In his reply, after being elected chairman, Mr. Gupwell said that the . problems that had to be discussed were not only national, but world-wide, and, at the recent meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce, in Paris, it was disclosed that every important nation was having to face this road-transport problem. He pointed out that the geographical position of Birmingham and the Midlands, which are situated within, approximately, a 100-mile radius of most of the great ports of the country, made road transport of great importance to traders.

As indicating the : road-transport industry's .great importance, he said that, in its many branches, including motor manufacturing, road construction, etc., there were now one and a quarter million employees, of whom 500,000 were drivers, fitters and attendants on goods vehicles, and over 200,000 on public-service vehicles. He foresaw, in the creation of a road-traffic section of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, a means for protecting the interests of those engaged in all phases of road-vehicle operation. Mr. Gupwell dealt with some of the matters which may fall to be considered by the new section.

An executive committee was appointed, as follows :—

The chairman, vice-chairman,_ Messrs. A. A. Mitchell (A. Bird and Sens), J. Howell (Commercial Motors Users Association), H. MacDonagh (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), B. J. Pagett (Midland Counties Dairy), 0. C. Power (Birmingham and Midland Motor 071111iblis Co., Ltd.), R. Vernon C. Brook, Foley Egginton (Associated Road Operators), W. Pilkington (Premier Motor Co.), E. G. Whitaker (E. G. Whitaker and Co.), C. J. Beret (Hint and Payne), B. W. Blasdale (Warriner and Mason), J. Flavell (Joseph Lucas, WI.), C. S. Dunbar (Red Arrow Deliveries, Ltd), W. Blackwell 1131ackwcIl Oil Co.), and A. G. Marsden (Cadbury Brothers, Ltd.).


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