I.o.T. President to Speak on Monday
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THE presidential address to the Institute of Transport will be delivered by Mr. John Elliot, the newly appointed chairman of the London Transport Executive, on Monday, at 6.15 p.m., at the Jarvis Hall, Portland Place, London,
On Tuesday, Mr. W. H. Smith, general manager of Birmingham Transport Department, will speak to members of the Midland section about the work of his undertaking. The meeting will be held at the Imperial Hotel, Birmingham, at 6.15 p.m. On the same day, members of the North-Western section will hear Lt.-Col. F. Bustard's lecture, "Wheels Across the Sea," at the Chartered Accountants' Hall, Manchester, at 6.15 p.m.
The Institute have co-operated with Ashridge College, Berkhamsted, Herts, in •the arrangements for a week-end course on "The Changing Face of Transport," to be held from November 6-9. The course is open equally to 'members cf the Institute and non-members. The inclusive cost will be £.3 15s.
Mr. Elliot will be one of the speakers at the course, as well as Mr. M. A. Cameron, principal traffic officer of the British Transport Commission, and Prof. Gilbert Walker, of Birmingham University.
MANCHESTER'S PROBLEM FEWER than 500 of Manchester's 1,286 buses are required to provide normal services. The remainder are in use only during peak periods, said Mr. J. Gillanders, traffic superintendent of the transport department, at a meeting last week of the Manchester Centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration.
The provision of transport would be almost prohibitive in cost, said Mr. Gillanders, if it were not for the cooperation of factory managements in staggering hours.
C-LICENSEES DEFENDED "'THERE are bound to be more pro ./ hibition notices for C-licensed vehicles than the others because there are so many more on the road." Mr. L. Patrick, secretary of the West Midland Division of the Traders' Road
Transport Association, made this observation, last week, in refuting the implication contained in the Licensing• Authorities' Reports for 1951-52 that ancillary users' vehicles were more poorly maintained than those of professional carriers.
BRISTOL ROAD CLOSED
DECAUSE of the reconstruction of
the railway bridge at Puxton on the Bristol to Weston-super-Mare road (A.370), vehicles will be diverted for three months from tomorrow. The alternative route will be via Stock Lane from its junction at Congresbury to the Bristol-Bridgwater trunk road at Churchill, then via the Banwell and Locking roads to the junction with the A.370 at the "Borough Arms," Weston.
TALKS ON PHOSPHATING
DELEGATES from Britain, U.S.A., France and Western Germany, including leading world experts on indus
trial phosphating, conferred for three days recently at the headquarters of the Pyrene Co., Ltd., Great West Road, Brentford, to exchange technical information and discuss future developments of the Bonderizing and kindred processes.
Mr. W. E. Wright, director of Pyrene, took the chair, and led the British delegation.