PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Ernie Hartness, of Penrith, Cumberland, this
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week completed 50 years of road passenger transport operation. Although 73, this veteran busman, whose operations were described in COMMERCIAL MOTOR of April 2, 1965, has no plans for immediate retirement. He operates 17 vehicles with a staff of 16 and several parttime drivers.
Stuart Lovell, West Riding county engineer and surveyor, and James Drake, county surveyor and bridgemaster of Lancashire, have been invited to join the Ministry of Transport on temporary detachment to help set up the new Road Construction Units. Mr. Drake would head the first operational unit (covering Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland).
Charles Buist, district traffic superintendent at the Newburgh, Fife, depot of W. Alexander and Sons Ltd, retired on December 31 after 38 years with the company.
Hands (Letchworth) Ltd. has appointed F. V. Biggs service manager with J. Stewart as deputy service manager. G. Smith becomes chief sales engineer. In consequence of 1. Niblock's appointment as an executive director of the Tilling Bus Group,
R. G. Howe has been additionally appointed director and general manager of the Midland General Omnibus Co. Ltd. and its associated companies with effect from February 1. He will continue his duties as director and general manager of Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd.
Jack E.. Cooke has been promoted to chief engineer of Atkinson Vehicles Ltd. His responsibilities include control of all design office, tracing and technician manual sections, experimental and research departments. and the new quality control unit. Before joining Atkinson in 1956. Mr. Cooke held positions both at Leyland Motors and Maudslay's in Alcester, rising from an engineering apprenticeship at Charley through the various drawing offices. Since coming to Preston, he specialized in various aspects of design work, including transmissions and heavy tractor frames, before taking over control of the drawing office in 1965.
H. G. Priest has been appointed commercial manager and A. E. Searle distribution manager of Castrol's UK oil production and distribution division.
R. L. Blows has been appointed operations manager of Harold Wood and Sons Ltd., Heckmondwike. Mr. Blows has been traffic manager of T. Wall and Sons Ltd., company transport manager of Industrial Freight and Travel Ltd. and associated companies, joint managing director of G. and L. Baldwin Ltd., and col/many transport manager, Security Express Ltd.
Borten ('Pete') Garfield, general manager of Eaton Axles Ltd., Warrington, for the past four years, has completed his assignment in the UK, and is to return to the USA to assIne fresh responsibilities, initially in the international engineering operations of the Eaton Axle Division, Eaton Yale & Towne Inc. Arthur Makin has succeeded him as general manager of Eaton Axles with effect from January 1, and has been made a director of the company. Mr. Makin joined Eaton in 1952, becoming chief designer in 1958 and chief engineer in 1962. He serves on the committee of the North Western centre, automobile division, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and is a member of the American Society of Automotive Engineers.
W. F. Greenstreet, E. S. Tye and F. R. Madell have been appointed directors of Ripaults Ltd.
D. S. Teague and M. F. Levey have been appointed principal executive assistants in the office of the London Transport publicity officer.