On November IO, I944, a meeting was held in the Social Security Building, under the chairmanship of W. L. Batt of the War Production Board, for the purpose'of reporting to Federal agencies in Washington the results of the [7. S.-Canadian Screw Thread Mission to London at which the member representing the Department of Commerce was Henry W. Bearce, and of discussing plans for continuing the work. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Departments of State, War, Navy, and Commerce, and of other interested groups. The results of the London Conference were reported by E. J. Bryant, chairman of the Mission, and copies of a printed report of the meeting were distributed. Speakers for each of the groups represented at the meeting expressed satisfaction with the progress so far made toward the adoption of a unified system of screw thread standards in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, and expressed the hope that the work may be continued and the final objective attained.
A similar meeting was held in the Engineering Societies Auditorium in New York on November 16, I944, at which a full report on the London Conference was given to the engineering societies and the public. The meeting was attended by several hundred persons and the report was well received. At an afternoon session on the same clay reports were made by the individual members of the Mission, each member discussing in detail the special subjects for which he had been responsible at the Conference. Many pertinent questions were asked by members of the audience, and there was a full afternoon of interested discussion. At a meeting on November I7, I944, under the auspices of the Screw Thread Committee of the American Standards Association, preliminary steps were taken toward an extensive research program on screw threads. This project was planned, in general terms, during the London Conference as an essential move in bringing about a unification of screw thread standards in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.