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CotR. T. HARTIAANN has resigned his directorship of the British Straddle Carrier Co., Ltd.
MR, R. L. L. BovEs has been appointed Sussex representative of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. MR. A. T. BARNES has become representative for East London.
MR. GEORGE BOEX, a former managing director of the British Aluminium and associated companies, is to retire from the board on May 6. He will continue in a consultative capacity.
MR. J. L. RANSOME, M.B.E., DC.M., has been appointed assistant chief engineer of .the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd. MR. J. PFARsoN succeeds Mr. Ransome as development engineer.
MR. COLIN CLEGG, director of public cleansing of Leicester, has been nominated as president of the Institute of Public Cleansing for 1959-60. He will take office at the Institute's conference at Brighton from June 9-12 next year.
MR. R. F. MILLARD, deputy director of public cleansing of St. Marylebone, has been awarded the first J. C. Dawes Travelling Scholarship for 1958 by the Institute of Public Cleansing. He is to study kind report on dustless loading in Western Germany and Holland.
MR. T. A. Hot LAND has been appointed sales representative in London and the Home Counties for M. G. Rowe (Motors) Doublebr.sis. Ltd., Liskeard, Cornwall. MR. E. A. C. MAINSTONE will work from Bristol and MR. NORMAN SNELL will cover the counties of Devon and Cornwall.
MR. G. G. HILDITCH, assistant engineer, of Halifax Passenger Transport Department, has been appointed deputy manager and engineer of Plymouth's municipal bus undertaking. He came to Halifax from Manchester Transport Department in 1954 and had previously served with the Daimler Co., Ltd., and Leeds transport undertaking. At Plymouth Mr. Hilditch succeeds MR. R. E. BENNET", Who, as reported in The Commercial Motor on March 14. has been appointed general manager of Great Yarmouth Transport Department.
MR. PETER Rocns has become public relations officer of Austin Crompton
Parkinson Electric Vehicles, Ltd. He was general sales" manager before falling ill in July last year. Territories of area managers have been rearranged as follows: MR. W. WILSON, Scotland and four northern English counties: MR. S. G. BEER, Ulster, North Wales and three northern English counties: MR. J. 13. BLACKNELL, five Midlands counties; MR. C. F. WILLIAMS, Gloucester and the south-west: MR. A. STE.ADMAN, East Anglia, Cambridge and six Midlands counties; MR. J. R. C. WILLIAMS, southern England: MR. F. SPALTON, London.
B12 Ma, L. H. NEWALL, assistant traffic superintendent of West Bromwich Transport Department, has been appointed traffic superintendent of Birkenhead Transport Department. He takes over his new duties in May.
MR. C. W. WROTH, general manager of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., is to retire at the end of September. His lifelong association with road transport includes some 30 years in the bus industry, more than half of it with P.M.T.
CAPT. G. A. P. UPSTON has been elected chairman of the Western Area of the Road Haulage Association, and MR. G. H. GARDNER and MR. C. F. RUSSETT vicechairmen. Mr. Russett is also chairman of the Bristol and District Sub-area and MR F. E. RussErr vice-chairman.
TRANSPORT PROBLEMS WILL WORSEN
DRITAIN'S transport problems did not look like lessening. If anything, they were going to become far worse, said Sir Reginald Wilson, president of the Institute of Transport, when he spoke at the annual dinner of the Scottish section last week.
He suggested that a body of professional people should try to take an unbiased attitude to transport ,problems and seek the truth of the science of transport.
Lord Strathclyde, Minister of State, said that the Government were determined to carry out the roads _programme as quickly as possible. "During the next four years," he stated, "we shall embark on Scottish schemes which will cost the Exchequer about £40m."
He added that difficulties would arise' because of a shortage of engineers and surveyors.
CHANCELLOR APPROACHED ON FUEL TAX E'OURTEEN bus companies and four associations have approached the Chancellor of the Exchequer for relief in fuel tax. Representations have also been made by municipal undertakings, Mr, J. E. S. Simon, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, told Mr. Ernest Davies in the House of Commons last week. Mr. Davies asked whether operators could not be granted a fuel-tax concession now that the principle of discrimination in tax relief had been accepted by exemption of members of the U.S. Forces from fuel tax, but Mr. Simon would not anticipate the Budget statement (to be made next Tuesday).
18-DAY STRIKE ENDS
A FTER a strike lasting 18 days, caused by the transfer of a non-union worker to an all-union production line making Austin lorry cabs, 300 members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders returned to work at the Willenhall Motor Radiator Co., Ltd., Wednesfield. last Friday.