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Executives Speak tip
\/OMEN transport executives came VV into their own when the Women's Traffic Club of Great Britain held a dinner in London last week. Mrs. L. Stirling, a director of Elliotts (Hauliers), Ltd., made the first part of her journey from Acomb, York, in an Army "duck."
Mrs. Leah Manning, M.P.. cne of the speakers, was, several years ago, responsible for buying ambulances and lorries, arranging for their reconditioning and adaptation, and handling their shipment to the Continent. She herself drove at the head of the convoy, piloting the vehicles across France and into Spain.
Mrs. Norah Magson, a director of Coventry Climax Engines, Ltd., said that, in striking contrast with the huge organizations in Detroit, there were in America small factories on the outskirts of towns where life and work proceeded at the leisurely pace of a remote English_ village. A firm in Cleveland operated on an " honour " system, with little supervision, and a worker arriving late at the factory was greeted by a " wolfcall " from the employees. This, she said, usually cured the late-corner.
• Sir Patrick Hannon, M.P., emphasized the importance of "international amity between professional people," and of the maintenance of contact between traffic executives in Britain, the Dominions the Colonies, and the U.S.A. Mr. *alter Monslow, M.P., spoke of his recent visit to the U.S.S.R., where, he said, women were carrying out high executive duties and were in all ways on an equal footing with their men colleagues. He congratulated Miss A. Alexander on her appointment to the board of CD. and T. Contracts, Ltd., and Miss C. Davenport on her M.B.E.
Mrs. Christine R. Taylor, chairman of the Club, who presided, referred to the work of the Associated Traffic Clubs of America, which had done much to cement friendship between the users and sellers of transport. The organization. comprised 152 member clubs, of which 29 were women's.
Mrs. Mavis Tate said that, despite discouragements, women were still making headway in transport.