*No gong for service
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Here's a thought: why are export awards limited to manufacturing, well deserved though these may be? The point has just been raised in public. While Chloride Overseas Ltd. was receiving the Queen's Award to Industry from the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, across the Pennines in Meltham the managing director of Shaw Export Packing Ltd., A.C. Balmforth, was making a plea for the system to be widened. The Queen's Award was eagerly displayed by manufacturers, he remarked, but it was not available to service industries, some of whom had contributed magnificently to Britain's export efforts.
Transport people will, I'm sure, echo his opinion. And Mr. Balmforth is well placed to speak of these things, for he made the comments at the opening of what he described as the most modern export packing plant in Europe.