C.M.U.A. NORTH-WESTERN SECTIONAL REPRESENTATION
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DESPITE enlistments and other war L./influences among the small operators, membership of the C.M.U.A.
North-western Division (Eastern Sector) has been well maintained and the 1941 report to the executive shows a satisfactory .finsancial position. The committee has decided to proceed with full sectionalization, dividing members into nauliers; ancillary and passenger sections, each with its own committee representing the sub-districts through
out the area. Delegates from these committees will form the general management committee of the sector. The following have been elected as the p.s.v. committee:—Manchester: Messrs. ('ash, Martin,
Cooper and Washington; Cheshire: Brazendale; Oldham: Messrs. Bolden. Johnstone Middleton). Johnson (Shawl and Parker; Bury: Mr. Sheldon; Bolton: Messrs. Seddon and Woodward; Rochdale; Mr. Kershaw; Wigan: Messrs. Webster and Stringfellow. Mr. IL Allen, chairman of the National Passenger Board, is an ea-officio member ot the mmmittee.
A RUNNING ENGINE DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN WASTE
SUMMONSES issued against four bus drivers in the employ of Manchester Corporation, for alleged waste of petrol, were withdrawn at Manchester last week, after an explanation had been given by the transport department. In reply to a witness' statement that a bus stood for 11 minutes with the engine running, thus using more than a quarter a a pint of petrol, it was revealed that drivers had to keep their engines running to save petrol. On cold mornings they were instructed not to switch off their engines before 10 o'clock in view of the amount of petrol required to warm up.
It was also revealed that Manchester Transport Department was saving 2,000,090 gallons of petrol each year by the use of oil-engined buses.
IN AID OF TRANSPORT'S WAR. SAVINGS CAMPAIGN
THERE has been a change of plans 1 on the social side of the road-transport war-savings campaign in the North-eastern Region. Instead of a dance at Leeds Town Hail, two tea dances will be held in the banqueting hall of the Queen's Hotel—one of them to-morrow (Saturday, January 31), and the other on Saturday, February 7. The East Yorkshire Regiment dance band will provide music, and there will be cabaret entertainments and sideshows. The price of tickets for each function, including aftOrnoon tea, is Os.
NUFFIELD ORGANIZATION APPOINTS WOMAN ADVISER'
THE Nuffield Oiganization is fully I aware of the 'untapped potentialities of married women which would be immediately available for factories if some arrangements could be made to look after their children at a moderate cost. Also there is the correct adaptation of work to be considered, and consequently it has appointed Mrs. Martin, M.B.E.. as an advisory executive to offer guidance .in planning to make the n:taximum use of woman power in the national effort.
Mrs. Martin will co-operate with the heads of the several Nuffield Organization factoriei in the establishment of creches and other amenities. She is the daughter of T. C. Pullinger—a pioneer automobile and aero-engine manufacturer—has bad a sound engineering experience, and is the second woman to be elected as associate-member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers.
FOUGASSE POSTERS SUPPLIED BY TILLING'S
WITH the assistance of that great VY humorist artist Fougasse of "Punch," the Thomas Tilling group of companies has undertaken an advertising campaign in an endeavour to reduce road casualties. His drawings, covering many phases of the subject, are printed on 14-in. by. 9-in, stout paper for display in workshops and offices. Owing to the paper shortage the quantity is limited, but they are obtainable from Tilling's Association, Publicity Department, 105, • Park Street, London, W.1.
We shall be reproducing, in miniature, a number of these drawings, similar to that included this week.
PERSONAL PARS
MR, B. WINTERBOTTOM, East Lancashire Area Secretary of A.R.O. and a prominent figure in northern transpat circles, was the guest of honour at a dinner party given by Mr. Reginald Hindley, in Manchester, on Monday. A presentation was made to Mr. Winterbottom in recognition of his considerable services to the road-transport industry generally.
MR. FRED EASTWOOD, secretary of Bolton Transport Workers' Union (commercial section), h a s been appointed assistant secretary of the North of England commercial section of the Union in succession to Mr. 3. Yates, the new general setretary;
following the death of Mr. 0. Brooks. The North of England headquarters are at Bolton.
PAPER IS A MUNITION OF WAR QAVE every scrap of paper you can ts./and give it to the collectors, as it is used for a vast variety of purposes in industries essential to the war effort. It is even employed far the actual munitions themselves or their containers. ROAD TRANSPORT AND WAR SAVINGS
THE road-transport industry is play'. ing its part in the war savings campaign, and most of the big undertakings and companies have successful savings groups, which have already attained to many thousands of pounds.
In parts of the country where" Warship Weeks " are being held, the industry is making itself responsible for raising specified portions of the total sums aimed at. In the North-Eastern Region, for instance, an appeal has been made to theindustry by Major F. S. Eastwood, to raise 4250,000 for the Week at Leeds.
Mr. J. H. StIrk, of the North Midland Region, has also addressed a letter to the industry on this matter.
DEATH OF LEADING YORKSHIRE HAULIER
ROAD transport has lost one who was active in the promotion ol organization among operators, by the death, at 57 years of age, of Mr. Alfred Hall Butterwick, which occurred on January 24. He was head of three road haulage businesses—Butterwick Transport, Ltd., Leeds; W. H. Trevelyan, Ltd., Leeds; and the Newcastle Transport and Trading Co., Ltd.,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He achieved his business success from small beginnings in 1919, when, after having served in the mechanical branch of the Army during the 1914-18 war, he began business in Leeds with one lorry.
Tip to the time of his death Mr. Butterwick was chairman of the Road Transport Section of the Leeds Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and of the Leeds Sub-area of Associated Road Operators. He was also a member of A..R.O.'s Yorkshire Area Committee, had been chairman of the Yorkshire Area, and had served on the National Council of A.R.O.
A NATIONAL SWEEP FOR SCRAP IRON
Minister of Works, Lord Reith, has undertaken, at the request of the Minister of Supply, the task of sweeping the country from end to end of any, large or small, steel and iron scrap. It is hoped to obtain 40,000 tons per week in this drive. In addition to the normal supplies which arrive through scrap merchants, the Ministry has started an intensive campaign falling, roughly, under three heads:—(a) A national survey of all idle iron and steel in lots Of over 8 tons in any place:. (b) clearance of local dumps to which lots of under 3 tons should be sent; (c) acceleration of the collection of railings. Under (a) will be included disused pithead gear, bridges, rail tracks, factory machinery, etc. Under (h) will be taken small quantities in yards of
• all sorts, where there is no regular scheme for dealing with scrap.
The damps will be taken county 'by county, and it may be some months before the turn of any particular area arrives. What is required is a steady, regular flow, and every town and village should start filling its dumps now. Every garage and works should turn out its old plant, even down to rusty nuts and bolts, and farmers should clear barns of old machinery.