Personal Pars MR. ALEXANDER LAMB has received a presentation from
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Stirling hauliers in recognition of his services as organizer of the local haulage group during the war. The presentation was made by MR. RICHARD MCCUE.
MR. GEORGE LEGEFJONES, a managing director of the Shell Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., has become chairman of the Shell Union Oil Corporation, in which post he succeeds Sir Frederick Godberi who had retired.
MR. C. HALLAS, advisory engineer to Guy Motors, Ltd., has returned to Wolverhampton from India, where he visited Hyderabad as the guest of the Nizam to report on the latter's transport system.
MR, G. I. BRISTED and MR. W. LANIRERT have joined the board of the commercial division of the United Dominions Trust, Ltd. Both have been connected with the group for a number of years.
MR. DONALD G. CAMERON is to be manager of the new London branch of the Homerton • Rubber Works, Ltd., at 204-6, West End Lane, London, N.W.6. He was previously with Henleys Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. ALEXANDER BLACOW, A.M.I.A.E., rolling-stock engineer, has been ap pointed deputy general manager of Burnley Colne and Nelson Joint Transport Committee, in succession to MR. R. WHALLEY, the new general manager.
MR. J. E. BLACKSHAW and MR. R. NEEDHAM have been appointed joint managing directors of G. D. Peters and Co., Ltd. For medical reasons, MR. DAWSON has resigned his appointment as managing director, but will remain as deputy chairman.
MESSRS. L SMITH, Inverness; P. GRANT, Drumnadrochit; C. KINNAIRD, Nairn; B. MACLENNAN, Canon-Bridge; and J. ROBERTSON, Inverness, have been appointed members of the Inverness subcommittee of the Road Haulage Asso ciation. MR. SMITH is made contact officer in the emergency vehicle-reserve scheme.
The Minister of Transport has appointed MR. J. A. BURNEIT, A.M.Inst.C.E., to be Divisional Road Engineer, Scotland Division, in succession to MR. W. H. &MGM, C.B.E., F.S.I. who has retired. Mr. Burnett joined the Roads Department of the Ministry of Transport in 1921, and was chief resident engineer on the London-Southend road
and Orpington By-pass. From 1925 he has served with the Divisional Road Engineer, Scotland.
MR. D. G. STOKES, export development manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., was due to leave England on August 21 for Lisbon, on a tour which will embrace much of the Iberian Peninsula. He will advise on Leyland sales and service facilities and renew personal contact with the Leyland pre-war agent, La Petrolifera Transportes S.A., of Madrid, through which Leyland Motors, Ltd., introduced the first double-deck bus into Spain. Mr. Stokes has recently returned from a tom. of Scandinavia and ex-occupied countries of Northern Europe.
London Transport's general manager (road services), MR. S. R. GEARY, 0.B.E., has retired after 41 years' service. He started work as a time-table clerk in the London County Council tramways, eventually rising to the post of operation superintendent. In 1936, after the formation of London Transport, he was put in charge of all trams and trolleybuses, with the title of operating manager, trams and trolleybuses. In 1941, Mr. Geary was appointed operating manager, central buses, and this appointment terminated his 36 years' uabroken association with the operation of trams. Upon the retirement in October, 1945, of Sir Theodore Thomas, C.B.E., Mr. Geary became general manager (road services).