Iwcastle bus chief retires
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S. Taylor. general manager of Newcastle uopn Tyne Corporation Transport for the past 22 years, itire, on medical advice, as from May 31. He is at present on sick leave. It had been anticipated r. Taylor, who joined the undertaking before the war, would be appointed director-general of v Tyneside PTE. The highways, traffic and transport committee has recommended to the finance tee that J. B. Hurst, acting general manager, be appointed general manager from June 1. Mr. as been deputy manager at Newcastle for the past eight years.
I Brian Stead has been appointed chief r {engines) of Leyland Motors {Scotland t Bathgate, West Lothian. Mr. Stead Albion Motors Ltd, in 1936 as assistant technical director and became manager of perimental department two years later. 3 he was appointed technical manager and chief engineer in 1959—a position he to his transfer to Bathgate.
iteel and Ben Goodfellow were presented ertificates of honorary life membership of /A at the annual dinner on Tuesday.
arbara Castle, Minister for Employment and :ivity, and Sir William Lyons, chairman, Cars Ltd., are to be conferred with the y degree of Doctor of Technology at orough University of Technology. The y graduates will receive their degrees on Sessford, 35, assistant chief engineer with St Yorkshire Road Car Co. Ltd., is to become ngineer of Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd. a yet lobe arranged. The Hon. Gerald Lascelles is president-elect of the Institute of the Motor Industry and will be installed at the a, g.m. in July.
C. M. Boswell has been appointed sales manager to handle the distributorship for the MercedesBenz range of transporter vans granted to Williams Motor Co. {Sales) Ltd., Manchester. for Lancashire and Cheshire. Mr. Boswell is a former employee of the company.
L. R. House, chairman of the RHA Metropolitan and SE area tipping functional group, and vicechairman of the national tipping group, has been made mayor-elect of the London Borough of Hackney. He takes office in May.
D. P. McKenna has joined Davies and Robson, transport and distribution consultants at their Bristol office. Mr. McKenna has formerly been depot manager with Victory Transport Ltd., and transport manager with Buxted Chicken Co. Ltd.
John Taylor, since 1965 general manager of Heathfield Engineering Ltd., has been appointed to the hoard. J. Broadhead, G. T. Day, T. B. Eccleshall, W. R. II ord, I. W. J. Hippaley. W. T. Matthews, J. L. Morgan-Neil, H. W. Merry and C. Williams have been admitted as members to the Industrial Transport Association: Brigadier N. B. BoothMason has been admitted as an associate. Associate-members: M. J. Arthur, H. R. Ayres, W. R. Bailey. J. A. Burnley. T. Bonnage, Maj. G. A. Combs, W. C. Carroll, D. T. Chilton, E. Dukelow, (LB. Elcoate, A. E. Eaves. A. Frost, R. Foskett, F. Fumival, J. Gillies, J. McK. Hutton, W. M. T. Hamilton, H. A. Hill, J. E Hoare, A. E. Judge, F. J. Keenan, B. C. Kinaley, R. K. Mosso, 0. J. Morris, K. Marsden. G. H. Midgley, R. Niven, Maj. H. Prescott, P. J. Powls, Lt.-Col. J. R. Radford, Maj. I. L. E. Rands, H. W. Smith, J. Smith, R. J. Stace, W. E. Shave, A. T. Speaks, D. A. Triplett, J. N. Thomas, D. Tennant, S. Underwood, Capt. 0. Wilkiisson, D. I. Worsnop.
ELECTIONS
FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION—East Midland: H. Whitaker chairman; G. A. Florence, F. Moore vice-chairman.