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Richard Marsh to open CM Conference
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• The Minister of Transport, Mr. Richard Marsh, has accepted an invitation to perform the official opening ceremony at the Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference at the London Hilton Hotel on Thursday September 19.
The one-day conference, the fifth in the series, has attracted delegates from all branches of road transport, on both operating and manufacturing sides of the industry, and this year we shall be welcoming a group of hauliers from the United States.
Important papers will be presented by Mr. G. W. Quick Smith (on road-rail co-ordination and integration in the light of the Transport Bill), Mr. Ivan Swatman (on the realistic potential for gas turbines in trucks) and Mr. Frank Cousins (on pay and productivity from a trade union viewpoint). Mr. Quick Smith is chief executive of the THC and has been named as a member of the organizing committee for the National Freight Corporation; Mr. Swatman is US Ford's chief engineer, turbine operations—having emigrated to America after holding design and development posts with Napier in this country; and Mr. Cousins is general secretary of the TGWU and was recently appointed chairman of the Central Training Council.
At a special question-and-answer session on currect transport problems, these three speakers will be joined by Mr. J. MacNaughton Sidey, chairman of Ferrymasters Ltd., who will deal with containerization and unit-load movement; Mr. Tom Corpe, licensing specialist and legal adviser to the RHA's Western area; and Mr. H. M. Floyd, North Western regional manager of the Road Transport Industry Training Board and until recently a senior executive with the transport side of CWS.
Lord Chesham will be conference chairman.
Reservations for the conference have far outstripped last year's figure, and applica tions are still coming in, but there are a few seats left. The conference fee—which includes morning coffee, cocktails, lunch and afternoon tea—is 5gns. If you wish to book, send the reservation form below to The Editor, Commercial Motor, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London, EC I. (All delegates will receive the conference agenda and documents in the week before the conference.)