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MEN WHO MATTER MUNICIPALLY
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The personal details given below are in respect of the municipal-transport officials whose portraits appear on the preceding two pages. Details are given in the numerical order in which the pictures of the officials are published.
Mr. J. C. Dawes, 0.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., as the inspector of public cleansing of the Ministry of Health, plays a Particularly prominent part in municipal transport affairs. He entered municipal service after an engineering training and subsequently, held appointments at Greetland (Yorks.) and York. In 1909 he migrated to Keighley as superintendent of cleansing, etc., and in 1917 was loaned to the Ministry of Food to take charge of the salvage section. Later, when all the Government salvage sections were amalgamated, Mr. Dawes was appointed chief technical adviser to the National Salvage Council. In 1919, the Minister of Health invited Mr. Dawes to become the chief Government Inspector of Public Cleansing, an office which he still holds.
Mr. J. W. Dane, M.I.Fire E., is the chief officer of the Borough of Croydon Fire Brigade, with which is included the ambulance service. He has had professional fire experience since 1893 and has been a past president of the Professional Fire Brigades' Association and is vice-president of the Institution of Fire Engineers. Ile has won many honours in fire-fighting circles and holds the King's Police and Fire Brigade Medal. Ile has been at Croydon since the year 1905.
Mr. H. F. Wiglield, M.Inst.C.S., entered the ser
vice of the Sheffield City Council some 30 years ago. Early In 1906 he was appointed cleansing superintendent to. the Leicester Corporation a position which he held for over 14 years, subsequently being appointed to a similar post
with the Metropolitan Borough of Islington. Within a month of taking up his appointment reorganization work in the department was commenced. Motor vehicles were purchased to carry out every class of public cleansing work, which was then being undertaken by horse-drawn vehicles. At the present time 38 petrol, electric and steam-driven vehicles are used for refuse-collection, street-sweeping, gullyemptying and flushing purposes. The policy adopted by the Islington authorities has proved very satisfactory, as is illustrated by the fact that the cost of refuse-collection solely by means of horses and vans for the year 1920-1921 was 23s. 2d. per ton, whereas for the year ended March 31st. 1928, it was 10s. 9d., inclusive of all overhead charges, repayment of loan and interest charges, etc., for motor vehicles, garages and plant.
Mr. H. Y. Stazicker occupies the position of superintendent of the public health department of the Crewe Corporation, having been appointed in December, 1919, when the corporation had only one motor vehicle in commission. Today the fleet includes three motor ambulances (a fourth, with a special body, is shortly to be added for long-distance work) and two fire-engines, whilst the makes of other vehicle in use include Dennis, Ford, Karrier, Leyland, Morris-Commercial and S.D. Freighter.
Mr. F. W. Cable, M.O., A.M.I.C.E., contributes an absorbingly interesting article in this issue, in which he deals with the City of Westminster's cleansing problems. Ile has been connected with the City of Westminster since 1913, having occupied the position of assistant surveyor prior to being appointed city cleansing surveyor in 1919. Before the war he was deputy city engineer at Coventry, and, a little earlier, senior assistant in connection with the Leeds main-drainage scheme, which cost £1,250,000, During the war he held, for 3-1 years, commissioned rank in the Royal Engineers.
Mr. J. Jackson,. a.B.E., A.M.Inst.T., who is general manager of the salvage department of the City of Birmingham, has had vast experience in connection with public cleansing administration in this country. Commencing his career in Huddersfield in 1893, he was appointed cleansing superintendent at Sheffield in 1897 and took over his present position in Birmingham in February, 1914. He was the founder of the Institute of Cleansing Superintendents (now the Institute of Public Cleansing). He won the Henry Saxon Snell Prize of Public Cleansing in the year 1.918 and the gold medal of the Society of Engineers in 1925. Mr. Jackson has contributed a number of papers to various organizations and the most recent eulogised the value of the electric vehicle in public cleansing service.
Mr. C. H. Macfarlane is the director of cleansing to the Corporation of Glasgow, and in this position has played a leading part in connection with transport developments concerned with the collection and disposal of house refuse.
Mr. A. R. Dyer, A.M.I.C.E., as chief officer of the London Fire Brigade, occupies -a most responsible position in firefighting circles. He had certain of his technical training with a company, the name of which is a household word in the sphere of fire-fighting—Merryweather and Son, Ltd. He was appointed assistant divisional officer of the London Fire Brigade in 1904, being promoted to be a divisional officer in 1909, whilst he took over the command of the brigade in 1918. He played a prominent part in the motorization of the London Fire Brigade and in the elimination of thcappliances used in connection with horses.
Mr. A. Dryland, M.Inst.C.E., is the county engi
neer of Middlesex. He has had close upon 50 years' association with municipal affairs, having been borough engineer of Deal in 1883, later holding the positions of assistant county surveyor of Kent and county surveyor of Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Surrey. He has occupied his present position since 1920. He is president of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers and a past president and honorary secretary of the County Surveyors' Society. Whilst many phases of engineering have engaged his attention at various periods in his career, he has mainly devoted his life to questions concerning road development.
Mr. T. R. Whitehead, M.I.Mech.E., has had many years' association with transport in one form or another and as long ago as 1893 was chief engineer of the power station, Reundhay Electric Tramways, of Leeds, this being the pioneer tramway constructed on the overhead electric system. He was appointed manager and engineer of the Coventry Electric Tramways, Ltd., in 1896, being transferred to the corporation as general manager and engineer when that company was acquired by the municipality in January, 1913. Parliamentary powers have been obtained and the tramways extended and motorbus services instituted during Mr. Whitehead's connection. with the Coventry transport department Mr. R. Hoggard, M.Inst.T., was as recently as February last appointed to be general manager of the Chesterfield Corporation Tramways Department. He has had considerable experience in the matter of public-transport work extending ovei a period of 30 years. He has filled appointments at Sheffield, Wigan and Lincoln, being, in the lastmentioned city, general manager of the corporation's transport department, in which he was responsible for organizing the bus services on successful lines.
Mr. P. J. Baker, M.Inst.T., is the general manager and engineer of the Southampton Corporation Tramways, which, apart from its tramway interests, is operating more than 20 motorbuses, mostly of the 26-seater pattern.
Mr. B. England took over the duties of general manager and engineer to the tramways department of the St. Helens Corporation on February 1st, having previously been connected with two well-known transport organizations, these being the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Co., Ltd., and the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., over a. period of 11 years.
Mr. E. S. Rayner, M.I.E.E., was, in 1919, appointed general manager and engineer of the tramways department of the, Hull Corporation, which runs a fleet of both singledeck and double-deck motorbuses, whilst it will shortly be putting into service a number of Guy 60-seater six-wheelers.
Mr. N. J. Young has spent most of his life in the passenger-transport business. Ile has occupied for many years the position of general manager of the Newport Corporation-Electricity and Tramways Department, which runs both motorbuses and trams, formerly being with the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.
Mr. R. S. Asher, M.InstT., was appointed tramways manager of the tramways and motors department of the York Corporation on June 1st last. -He had previously had experience with the Edinburgh Corporation.
Mr. Duncan P. Morrison was responsible for the introduction of municipal bus services in Dundee. He is the engineer and general manager of the tranasvays and motors department and has brought about the centralization of the whole of the corporation transport services.