A TRIBUTE TO A RAILWAY CO-OPERATOR IT has been my
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great privilege to know Mr. A. L. ICastleman during the whole time we have jointly worked on the Metropolitan Road Rail Conference, and for most of that period he has been joint chairman_ with me.
May I be permitted to pay my inadequate tribute. publicly to him for the work he has done, and to say it would be difficult to measure the great good which his patience, tact and charm of manner have accomplished. At the beginning, suspicion and a common unwillingness to help a competitor made co-operation on the Committee impossible, and even reasonable work fell behind; but before long Mr. Castleman, in his indefatigable way, went around the stumbling blocks, dealt successfully with those problems not too difficult, and had everyone soon determined that nothing would stOP a ,successful conclusion.
It is a pity we are to los.e so great an advocate of fair play for all, and the Metropolitan Road Rail Confer,: ence will be all the poorer by one so hard to replace.
wish him every, possible happiness in his retirement, and hope his experience will still be available to those, like me, who have so greatly benefited from contacts with him. S. F. E. PYE.
(Chairman, Road Panel of the Metropolitan Regional Committee.) London, W.I.