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The transport committee of Glasgow Corporation, has appointed Mr. A. B. Finlay as constructional engineer. Mr. Finlay has been in the service of the department for nine years.
It is stated that Mr. A. B. Dyer, chief officer of the Loudon Fire Brigade, desires to relinquish his command at the end of this month. Mr. Dyer has had 28 years' 'service with the brigade and has beau chief officer since 1919.
Mr. Austin Baker, South Shields transport manager, is one of the candidates for the position of general manager and engineer of Huddersfield Corporation's joint tramways and bus undertaking. There are only five applicants on the short list.
Mr. S. F. Edge, who has been visiting the North and South Islands of New Zealand, as well as Australia, is returning by the s.s. "Cathay," and will arrive at Tilbury on March 24. He has met many old friends and made new ones in both countries, and has had a most interesting tour.
An interesting little ceremony recently took place at Great Eastern Street, London, E.G., to mark the occasion of the last business visit to that district of Mr. H. C. Johnson, of Joseph Lucas, Ltd. As a token of the esteem in which he was held, a number of prominent London factors presented Mr. Johnson with a cheque. He has retired after 44 years of unbroken service with the Lucas concern.
Mr. A. F. C. List, 110.5c., who has recently left Crossley Motors, Ltd., Manchester, to take up his position as sales representative in the rolling-stock department of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Loughborough, took over his duties on March 6. Previous to joining the Crossley concern, he successfully handled Dennis sales in
the London area. His activities will chiefly be in the Midlands and the north, but communications addressed to the headquarters of the Brush concern will find him.
The committee of the Order of the Road, the safe-driving organization, announces that the Earl of Cot tenham, chairman since 1928 of the executive committee, has relinquished this position, in accordance with the arrangement whereby the chairmanship is taken over by another member of the committee after the expiration of five years
of office. Lt.-Col. J. T. C. Moore13rabazon, M.C., M.P., succeeds him as chairman of the executive committee.
Under the leadership of the Earl of Cottenham, the Order of the Road has grown to a membership of 2,200.
Lt.-Col. Moore-Brabazon, the new chairman, has long been associated with transport interests, and it may be recalled that, during the Conservative Governments of 1023-1924 and 19241927 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
It is also announced that the Earl of Brecknock has joined the committee of bile Order of the Road.