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at Fort Dunlop, leaves to-day (April II) on a visit to the Dunlop factories in tile United States and Canada.
SIR THEODORE THOMAS, C.B.E., has accepted the invitation of the Council of the Public Transport Association to become an honorary member of the Association, in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered since its formation.
' ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER H. DALTON is to become chief of Scotland Yard's Traffic Department when SIR Aucra TRIPP, the present head, retires at an early date. Mr. Dalton, in turn, will be succeeded as Assistant Commissioner by Cot.. A. E. YOUNG, the present Chief Constable of Hertfordshire.
M. V. V. POWELL has been appointed chairman of the Birmingham branch of the Industrial Transport Association. Other officers elected are MR. N. HOMER (hon. treasurer) and MR. G. L. EADES (hon. secretary). The following are members of the committee. Messrs. .1. CHAPMAN DAVIS, C. R. JONES, L. J. MADDEN, W. POOLE, and J. J. JENNINGS.
MR. L. E. ROWLEY, of the Worsted Spinners' Federation, has succeeded MR. FRED PICKERING as hon. secretary of the Bradford and District Commercial Vehicle Owners' Federation. MR. EDWARD SMITH, of Smith, Parkinson. and Cole. Ltd., has been re-elected chairman, with Ma. F. CROFT as vicechairman, MR. J. W. TURNER hon. treasurer, and MR. R. E. CLOUGH hon. auditor.
MR. NORMAN RADLEY, M.B.E., has been appointed resident overseas sales and service representative for F. Perkins, Ltd., in the Union of South Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, and Portuguese East Africa. He left England for Capetown on the s.s. Capetown Castle, in March. Mr. Radley has been on the staff of F. -Perkins, Ltd., since his release from the R.A.F. in October, 1945.
MR. CHARLES A. Catinst, A.C.A., has been elected a director • of TillingStevens, Ltd.
MR, W. R. Ca'rr has retired from the board of C. Lindley and Co., Ltd. He was with the company for 52 years.
MR. MARK M. CANSICK has resigned his position with Specialloid, Ltd., to take up an appointment as secretary and commercial manager of a new company now in formation.
CAPT. C. N. MArrirEws, transport manager of the Metal Box Co., Ltd., Carlisle, has received a presentation from the company to mark his completion of 25 years' service.
DR. G. L. KELLEY has been appointed deputy chairman of the Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., and has resigned his position as managing director. MR. ARTHUR L. SHUTILEWORTH is now managing director, and MR. MICHAEL A. H. BELLHOUSE, assistant managing director. NOVEL POINT IN REINSTATEMENT APPEAL DY a majority vote, Blackpool Rein1--1 statement Committee has decided that a man who left Blackpool Transport Department in 1942 to join the Marines on a 12-year engagement, but was recently discharged on medical grounds, shall be taken back into employment by the corporation.
Counsel for the corporation submitted that the man had sought to make a new career for himself and, if he had rights of action, they were against the Crown.
The chairman of the committee said that an appeal would be welcomed.
APPEALS TO BE HEARD IN DEVON
THREE appeals against decisions of the Western Licensing Authority will come before the Appeal Tribunal on April 15 and 16, at 10.30 a.m., at the Guildhall, Exeter.
Messrs. D. Statton and Sons, Mr. W. C. Statton, and Glover and Uglow, Ltd., are appellants in the first case, in which Mr. G. T. C. Cowling is the respondent. In the second case, three other contractors, Messrs. C. R. Good and Sons, Mr. L. H. Lockyear, and Messrs. A. Turner and Sons, will appear as appellants against a grant to Mr.
W. R. Rice, the respondent. In the third case, Whitton Transport, Ltd., is the appellant and three hauliers and the G..W. Railway Co. are respondents.
WORKERS' FARES: MINISTRY REPLY EXPECTED 'THE Ministry' of Transport has pro1 mised an early reply to representations on behalf of passenger-transport operators for the removal of the obligation to grant workers' fares to shift workers travelling outside the normal hours, says the annual report of the Public Transport Association.
The Association is considering proposals by the S.M.M.T. for the standardization of the main dimensions of chassis for double-deckers.