road organisation in the world. Under his leadership work began on new premises for the RRL in Crowthorne. In 1966 one of the buildings at the new site was named Glanville Hall in his honour. Glanville's period at the RRL included the development of the country's first motorways and Glanville and his department played key roles in developing those roads and resolving early issues. Glanville declined numerous opportunities to leave the RRL to take up university professorships and senior positions in industry or with the Ministry of Transport; these all offered higher salaries. Charlesworth considers that the only post he may have accepted, but which was not offered, was that of secretary of DSIR. Charlesworth thought that if he had received the post in the mind 1950s he may have been able to prevent the break-up of DSIR in 1965. In 1955 GLanville had overseen the extension of the RRL's remit to roads abroad and, in 1962, to bridges. Glanville summed up his approach to research, saying that it must "be weighed in the balance of practical experience and application; that the problems of the research engineer are revealed by the difficulties of practice; and that to make his full contribution the researcher must follow these problems into the realm of practice". He sought to involve practicing professional in his research, seeking to tailor his research to the needs of the construction industry. Glanville was a firm believer in the relative independence of DSIR and its research stations from ministerial control. Glanville promoted the use of research boards within DSIR through which the activities of each research station could be directed. Although this required additional work to prepare reports and answer queries the presence of industry leaders, academic and government representatives on the Road Research Board increased awareness of the work of the RRL and allowed it to be directed more to the needs of these stakeholders. In 1962 the government appointed Sir Burke Trend to lead a committee of enquiry into the organisation of the civil service. Trend's report in October 1963 recommended that DSIR be dissolved and replaced by an independent Industrial Research and Development Authority (IRDA) and that consideration be given to transferring some of the research stations to ministerial departments (the RRL to the Ministry of Transport and the BRS to the Ministry of Public Building and Works). Glanville was critical of the Trend Report for