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put into motor parades might well. he devoted to . competitions for drivers who, through the years, had the .lowest number of mishaps, suggested Mr. C. le M. Gosselin, M.I.A.E.,
• M.Inst.T., at the seventh annual dinner of the C.M.U.A. North-Eastern Divi sion, at Leeds, last week. Great irn .
provements in vehicles and the stall. (lard of drivers' skill, he said, had made it difficult to judge between parade competitors.
The total proportion of road operators in any association he placed at 10 per cent., hut in the future, if the Government found that operators were not organizing themselves, the job would be done for them.
There was still room for much greater understanding of the problems of transport, said Mr, W. A. Winson, president-elect of the C.M.U.A., who suggested that the University of Leeds ought to establish a chair of transport. The welcome return of Mr. J. France to his former position as chairman of .the division was the subject of comment by Col. A: Jerrett, president, who also congratulated Mc. J. Wallis, the division's past chairman, on his year of office and referred to the 'effect of the stall work in relation to
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the. prosperous state of the division generally. Most important of the C.M.U.A. policy was the formation of sectional boards which would easeany suspicion which there might be between the various classes of operator. The Association's new central licensing bureau. was a feature that would be a help to the entire industry.
•• Mr. W. Holdsworth announced the division's intentionto organize a series of big propaganda meetings in the near future,
Over 150 operators and guests attended,