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MR. F. G. GODDARD has been appointed works manager of the Commer and Harrier factories at Luton.
We are pleased to hear that Mr. E. L. PAYTON, financial director and deputy chairman of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., is making satisfactory progress from injuries he sustained in a recent motor accident.
MR. A. H. TRAVIS, a Leyland research engineer, who has spent some 13 months in South Africa on behalf of Leyland Motors, Ltd., arrives at Southampton from Capetown on February 27.
MR. HUMPHREYS, the manager of the Ley/and branch in Canada, sails for that country to-day (Friday). He has been in England for the past nine weeks, during which he has spent much time at the Leyland factories.
MR. W. E. MACVE, who is so well known, in the Manchester area in connection with the Commercial Motor Users Association, and is traffic manager of the Bleachers' Association, has been elected as associate member of the Institute of Transport.
M. J. E, RAYSON, to whom we referred in our issue dated January 31 is in control of the traffic activities of Northern Motor Utilities, Ltd., north of Birmingham, under the general control of the manager of the company, Mr. J. Newton. Mr. Rayson is not, at present, an associate member of the Industrial Transport Association, as stated.
Owing to business reasons, MR. S. MACADAM, president-elect of the Commercial Motor Users Association, will he unable to succeed MAJOR R. A. B. SMITH as president. The national council has decided that COL. ARTHUR JERRETT be elected to the position.
Col. Jerrett has had a long association with road transport. For the past 10 years he has controlled the extensive distribution services of Lewis's, Ltd.
MR. JOSEPH WALLIS, head of Messrs. A. Wallis and Son, haulage contractors, Birstall, near Leeds, has been appointed by the Minister of Labour to be a member of the employers' panel of the National Joint Conciliation Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Captain A, H. Amor, of York. Mr. Wallis, who is also a member of the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Area joint Conciliation Board, is chairman of the NorthEastern Division of the Commercial Motor Users Association.
MR. C. H. HYLTON, of the commercial-vehicle department of Rootes, Ltd., the world distributor for Commer and Harrier products, leaves this country on February 25 to make a detailed survey of the overseas markets' for goods and passenger vehicles. He
will be away until January, 1937, and, in the course of his travels, Will visit the Near East, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, calling on the company's resident representatives, distributors and dealers.
Mr. Hylton has had a long connection with the industry, both at home and overseas, and an intimate association with Comrner and Harrier products
for well over 20 years. • WOMAN HAULIER WINS APPEAL.
On Monday, the Appeal Tribunal allowed, with £7 15s, costs, the appeal of Mrs. D. A. E. Soper, of Little Hormead, Buntingford, despite opposition from the L.N.E. Railway Co. The case concerned the refusal of the
Metsopolita:n Deputy Licensing Authority to vary an A licence.
Beardmore Engines for Glasgow.
A recent order received by Albion Motors, Ltd., Glasgow, from Glasgow Corporation, included 30 Venturer fourwheeled double-deckers having Beardmore six-cylindered oil engines. These, we understand, are now in course of construction, and highly satisfactory results have been obtained from the first to be completed and tested.
When Hiring is Uneconomic.
"Hiring is eCODOMIC up to about 33 per cent. of 'turnover," said a representative of Messrs. Collier Daniels, of Manchester, when applying for an extra 5-ton vehicle to cope with increased business, chiefly in cotton cloths for shipment at Southampton. Hiring now equalled half the turnover and it was to keep it within economic bounds that the application was made.
Evidence was given for the railway companies that shipping traffic for Southampton was down by 22 per cent. and for London by 16 per cent. They' were seriously concerned at the figures submitted for the applicants The application was granted,