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Minister lists three MIRA priorities
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THE three priorities for Motor Industry Research Association work should be safety, development of electric propulsion, and the rapid development of containers and the vehicles to carry them. This was said by the Minister of Technology, Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, in London on Wednesday at MIRA's annual luncheon.
The Minister referred to the fact that his Ministry was awaiting proposals from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders about joint research projects between the Ministry and the motor industry. Quality and reliability were of great importance, he said. In commercial vehicles brakes, cab comfort and basic design all left room for improvement.
There should be more research into the fatigue life of components.
The MIRA president, Sir Donald Stokes, said that during the year they had been able to implement a much closer working arrangement between MIRA and SMMT. He thought that three areas in which much research could be done were safety, noise and air pollution.
He called for a much greater financial contribution by the Government. They spent £100m. on the Concorde project, he said, and talked in terms of peanuts in contributions to research of the country's biggest exporting industry, the motor industry.
ITA Dinner: The Industrial Transport Association London Division December meeting will, as usual, be in the form of a Christmas stag dinner, to be held on December 7 at the Londoner Hotel, Welbeck Street, W 1, at 6 p.m. for 7 p.m. There is an after-dinner cabaret. Tickets, 35s. each, are obtainable from: Mr. L. F. Hand, 153 Winkworth Road, Banstead, Surrey.