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By The Hawk
IUIR. F. WILLIAMSON, chairman of the North Western In Traffic Commissioners, is among those who deprecate the time-wasting "consent" procedure under the 1930 Act. Last week he granted consents to Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham and Rochdale Corporations to run jointly a short service for schoolchildren. Now he will have to hear applications for road service licences—an irritating duplication of effort.
Lifetime's Work
SIXTEEN members of the staff of the new parcels depot of British Road Services at Liverpool, described in The Commercial Motor on March 25, share a total of 566 years' service to transport. Among those whom Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, of the British Transport Commission, met when he opened the depot last week, was 64-year-old Mr. A. Robinson, former Liverpool parcels branch manager, who has had 50 years' service and was formerly with Suttons. He will retire at the end of this year. Another ex-Sutton employee, due for retirement in a week or two, is 59-year-old Miss D. G. Kendall, who has given 45 years to the transport industry.
Disappearing Wall
AT the inaugural luncheon at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 200 guests representing public life and industry in the city were surprised when the wall behind the top table silently disappeared into the ceiling. After this trick it dropped back into prace before the next item on the programme—Mr. T. G.
B6 Gibb, chairman and general manager of B.R.S., who told the guests that the depot was the largest of its kind in Britain. B.R.S. were carrying about 100m, consignments a year.
Mr. W. E. Macve, North Western divisional manager, paid a graceful tribute to he work of his secretary, 'Miss Anne Millington, whose experienced hand could be detected in the organization of the occasion.
The Ever, Ever
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I WAS wrong" is not the public admission one expects from a banker. Yet Sir Arthur Morse, chairman of Bowmaker, Ltd., used those words when opening the new headquarters of their associated company, Yeoman Credit, Ltd., at Kew Bridge. Brentford, last week.
He was referring to the great upswing in credit finance since 1958, when traditional banking added its support and respectability to the "never,' never." At the time, Sir Arthur doubted whether the rate of expansion could be maintained. But it had, and Yeoman Credit was an example. In 1954 they had one office. Now they have 23 branches.
In addition to finance, Sir Arthur has a consumer contact with transport. He is also chairman of the British Travel and Holidays Association.
Q.E.D.
WHEN Perkins News does not win the Block and Anderson WV Challenge Cup for the best house journal of the year, that will be Perkins news.
;ye for Beauty
AR. RAYMOND BIRCH must be one of the few people who VI can see beauty in the view from Hartshill over the Potries. I can think of two probable reasons for this: first, otteries Motor Traction is one of the important companies which he is chairman; second, he is an amateur in pastel ul water colours, and one certainly needs to have more than normal eye for colour to delight in the Potteries atmosphere. However, Mr. Birch professes to be a temperamentally lazy Ldividual. So colour films have proved too big a temptation. e has. now largely given up the laborious pursuit of art for Le easier clicking of a camera. "If it's all in the box," he Lys, "why go to all the trouble of putting it on paper for mrself?",
Do you think he is pulling my leg?
'he Wrong Highwayman
HE Warwickshire Constabulary bit off more than they could chew when, after a five-mile chase, they stopped representative of The Commercial Motor, who was iving a Bluebird Highwayman motor caravan in a :restricted area at 45 m.p.h., and accused him of tceeding the 30 m.p.h. speed limit. He not only quoted le law on the construction and use of vehicles, but cited nut cases in which the police had lost prosecutions for 'ceding brought against drivers of similar caravans. hey then changed their tune. It was the first time they ad apprehended a Highwayman.