British Standards Institution
British Standards Institution
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英国标准协会
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B. .. Jones
10月17日，英国标准协会召开了年度大会，伍尔顿勋爵当选为主席。珀西阿什利爵士任副总统，威廉·拉克爵士接替珀西阿什利爵士担任总理事会主席。Dr. E. F.财务委员会主席阿姆斯特朗解释说，这一年的收入和支出增加了28%，现在约为6.9万英镑。《英国标准》的销售量增加了39%，政府的补助金几乎翻了一番，现在达到了12 900英镑。虽然签署成员的数目增加了约15%，但他指出，地方当局和工业界需要提供更多的支持。珀西阿什利爵士在结束总理事会主席的任期时，简要回顾了英国标准协会为直接援助战争所做的工作，以及同一时期在制定英国工业和商业材料及器具标准方面所取得的进展。战时工作包括为国内安全部编制A.R.P.材料的战时紧急英国标准，为生产部编制包装表和编码，为供应部和一般服务部门编制钢和有色金属标准以及许多其他材料、工具和器具的标准，为贸易局编制服装和五金件的表。许多战争紧急状态标准是通过颁布法定规则和命令而强制执行的。为支持工程部和卫生部的住房建设方案，目前正在编制建筑材料和器具标准，这项工作已达到相当大的程度。珀西爵士最后强调工业标准的重要性，这些标准规定了准确和精确的商品说明、抽样和测试方法以及性能标准，并强调由全国工业作为一个整体建立和维持一个独立机构的重要性，该机构在政府的支持下但不受政府的控制，负责制定这些标准。如果“经同意的标准化”的政策得到持续贯彻，进展将是最广泛和持续的。
THE annual general meeting of the British Standards Institution was held on October 17, when Lord Woolton was elected president. Sir Percy Ashley vice-president, and Sir William Larke succeeded Sir Percy Ashley as chairman of the General Council. Dr. E. F. Armstrong, chairman of the Finance Committee, explained that the income and expenditure for the year had increased by 28 per cent and was now about £69,000. The sales of copies of British Standards had gone up 39 per cent. The Government grant-in-aid was nearly double and was now £12,900. While there was an increase of some 15 per cent in the number of subscribing members he pointed out the need for greater support from local authorities and industry. Sir Percy Ashley concluded his term of office as chairman of the General Council with a brief review of the work done as a direct aid to the war effort by the British Standards Institution, and the progress made during the same period in the preparation of British standards for industrial and commercial materials and appliances. The war work covered the preparation of war emergency British standards for A.R.P. materials for the Ministry of Home Security, packaging schedules and code for the Ministry of Production, steel and non-ferrous metal standards as well as standards for many other materials, tools and appliances for the Ministry of Supply and for the Services generally, and schedules for clothing and hardware for the Board of Trade. Many of the war emergency standards were made compulsory by the issue of statutory rules and orders. The preparation of standards for building materials and appliances now being carried out in support of the programme of house-building of the Ministries of Works and Health has already reached substantial proportions. Sir Percy concluded by emphasizing the importance of industrial standards, which provide for accurate and precise trade descriptions, methods of sampling and testing, and standards of performance, and of an independent body, set up and maintained by the national industry as a whole, with Government support but not under Government control, for the preparation of such standards. Progress will be most widespread and continuous if the policy of 'standardization by consent' is consistently pursued.