Industrial Research Committee of the Federation of British Industries

Abstract

AT a recent meeting of the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries, it was announced that Mr. B. J. A. Bard has been appointed head of the F.B.I. Research Secretariat and secretary of the F.B.I. Industrial Research Committee. Mr. Bard carried out fuel research under the late Prof. W. A. Bone in the Chemical Technology Department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and then read for the Bar; he practised at the Bar until the outbreak of war, after which he worked first with the Coal Commission and, later, on various industrial production and research problems at the Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production. The duties and functions of the research secretariat will include the encouragement and fostering of industrial and national interest in research, maintaining contact with all industrial research organizations, and providing a service whereby advice, assistance and information can be obtained and contacts made. Close touch is being maintained with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which is represented on the F.B.I. Industrial Research Committee. A first task will be the organization of a survey of existing research facilities in Britain. Another immediate plan of the Industrial Research Committee is a proposal for a two-day conference, to be held in London in the autumn, of those who are organizing or conducting research in industry, in order that they may present their views and give the results of their experience to industry.