The Sixth C.M.U.A. Parade.
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Splendid Weather and Splendid Organization. Upwards of £260 Awarded and Distributed between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Monday Last.
Official List of Results. Speeches at the Luncheon. Inc:dents and Photographs.
Whitsuntide weather is not always of the right kind for holiday purposes, but this year has been even kinder than the year 1911. All who participated in the Coronation Parade, at Earl's Court, will recall he overpowering heat, the effect of which was felt all the more by reason of the protracted duration of the proceedmp. On Monday last, with the River Thames as a welcome cooling influence, and a delightful breeze to assist the heat regulation of the body. anent which Professor Leonard Hill has had so much to write of recent years, the conditions were almost ideal, and we are confident that competitors, officials, and spectators were equally thankful to the clerk of tin weather.
Some of the officials, it is worthy of note, began their duties in the very early hours—Capt. BagnallWild and Mr. Arthur W. Windsor —before 11 a.m. They were well ahead with the marking out of the !stations when one of Messrs. Lobjoit's Wellington tractors (No. 118, Driver Leaman) put in an appearance, and found the alloted place already indicated. The general body of marshals, whose names follow, took up their duties at seven o'clock punctually, and they were able, under the direction of Capt. Bagnall-Wild, to complete the marking out of the stations in an unprecedentedly-short period of time, so that everything was ready for the vehicles when they began t arrive thick and fast. In fact, when the judges came upon the scene, between 9 and 9.30 a.m., all the vehicles, with few exceptions, were on their stations, and correctly " dressed."
The Officials.
The ante-Parade duties were entrusted to a special Parade Committee of the Association, and the members of this committee were ex-officio judges. The names are: CAPTAIN R. K. BAGNALL WILD, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.A.E.
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Vice-Chairman of the Com.mervial Motor Users Association (incorpora(ed).
T. B. BROWNE, M.I.Mech.E., F. C. A. COVENTRY, M.I.A.E., Great Western Railway. COLONEL R. E. CROMPTON, M. Inst.C.E., M.I.
Mech.E.,
As is already well known to readers of this journal, Mr. George W. Watson, M.I.Mech.E., M.I. A.E., has been undertaking the inspections of the vehicles and viva-voce examinations of the drivers at their respective store-sheds and depots, whilst the secretarial and general control of the organization has been carried out, with despatch and precision, by Mr. F. G. Eris
tow, A.C.I.S., the secretary of the Association.
Capt. Bagnall-Wild, in addition to his duties as chairman of the Parade Committee, was chief marshal at the actual Parade, with Mr. Aethur W. Windsor, A.M.I. Mech.E., M.I.A.E., as his chief assistant. The following 13 gentlemen were marshals, and to them is largely due the credit for the avoidance of confusion or congestion both during the assembly and the dispersal of the competing vehicles : W. H. Berry ; Captain E. 11. Blarney, A.S.C. ; F. A. Bonsor F. J. Bretherton ; W. H. Cocking: W. F. Collins ; A. C. Kehler, C. C. Ransley ; C. A. Ross ; A. J. Shinkins ; G. Campbell Taylor ; E. Turner ; Cecil S. Windsor.