Norwich Traffic Club The Norwich Traffic Club was founded in 1933 with 31 members. Today, with over 100 members, it still meets monthly between October and May each year, over lunch, followed by a guest speaker, at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel on Boundary Road, Norwich. Membership is open to any person, male or female, who is, or was formerly, employed in traffic or transport in any of its modes (road, rail, sea and air), in transport terminal facilities or in associated disciplines and trades, whether as a proprietor, a manager or a supervisor. The current membership represents most aspects of transport. This range of interest, coupled with the sense of responsibility, which characterises the membership, has resulted in the Club taking a balanced view of transport as a whole, unaffected by purely sectional interest. In 2001, at the start of the new millennium, the Club updated its Rules to become principally a social organisation, based on the shared interest in Transport. It meets monthly from October to May, with a special lunch-time event at Christmas, and continues to hold, with full ceremony, its prestigious Annual Dinner in March each year. In 2004, the Club voted to admit ladies to membership subject to meeting the entry qualifications of involvement in transport as described above. The Club's 70th Anniversary, on 25th January 2003, was celebrated by a special Annual Dinner with renewed contact being made with the Traffic Club of New York (TCNY) who sent Past President Mr Anton Becker to represent their President. Mr Becker presented certificates appointing the Norwich Traffic Club’s new President for that year, Terry Comber, and Chris Taylor, the Club’s Honorary Secretary, and their successors in office as Honorary Members of the TCNY. Further information
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