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MR. A. HEALEY, a former Dunlop director, who retired this year after 38 years service, has been appointed a member of the committee to inquire into the organization of State electricity.
MR. L. A. M. GINGER has been appointed assistant chief electrical engineer of the London Transport Executive. MR. H. Bam•rroN has been appointed assistant electrical engineer (generation).
. MR. A. PACKHAM (A. Packham and Co., Ltd.) was last week elected chaitman of the National Association of Warehouse Keepers, and MR. J. W. FEARNLEY (Archbold's Storage, Ltd.) honorary treasurer.
MR. JAMES SINSTADT, manager of the Birmingham factory of A. Schrader's Son, has been elected a director of A. Schrader's Son, Inc. He joined the company in 1921 and is the first branch manager to join the board.
MR. W. J. MASON has been appointed a member of the Scottish Transport Users' Consultative Committee to represent commerce and industry. He is general manager of Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Glasgow.
MR. G. MACKENZIE JUNNER has been unanimously re-elected president of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers for an eighth term. MR. E. B. H.• ELSBURY and MR. P. M. A. THOMAS have been appointed advisory officers, and MR. J. H. VINCENT and MR. A. H. DACK re-elected honorary secretary and honorary treasurer respectively.
MR. R. P. BEDDOW, director of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., MR. A. B. FINDLAY, general manager of Leeds Transport Department, and MR. G. W. QUICK-SMITH, member of the board of management of British Road Services, are among those elected as council members of the Institute of Transport with effect from October 1. Other members will be MR. E. W. I. ARKLE, MR. W. BRAY, MR. F. D. M. HARDING. MR. H. W. HOWARD, MR. A. J. PEARSON and MR. S. E. SINFIELD, MR. J. W. SWANN Will be an associate member.
MR. K. J. STARTIN, of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., has been awarded a prize by the Institute of the Motor Industry for his essay on the Renault factory in Paris which he visited last year. The council have also awarded a prize to MR. W. P. Eworr. of the Nuffield Organization, for his essay on the Pegaso company of Barcelona. The following students gained distinctions in various papers of the associate-membership examination held last May: MR. E. PLEVIN, MR. J. BREMER, MR. K. KAPOOR, MR. M. N. BAGAI and MR. W. H. ARMS] BONG.
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MR. J. R. T. GIBSON JARVIE and MR. DUNCAN CARMICHAEL have been appointed joint deputy chairmen of United Dominions Trust, Ltd.
MR. S. R. OwEN has been appointed northern sales manager of the Davies Tyre Co., Ltd., and their associated company, the Re-Cord Tyre Co., Ltd. He joined Davies in 1952.
MR. C. U. MAGNUSSON has been appointed joint managing director of the Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd. MR. G. A. R. MEAD continues as a joint managing director. MR. W. SIBERO has retired from his joint managing directorship, but retains his seat on the board.
MR, F. L. ALLSWORTH, son of one of the founders of the company. has been appointed managing director of Beardmore Motors, Ltd., in succession to the late MR. F. M. LUTHER. Mr. Allsworth became a Beardmore director in 1946, but resigned in 1952 to take up an appointment in the U.S.A.
MR. C. Witicox, who was formerly in charge of the technical department of pneumatic equipment of Benton and Stone, Ltd., has resigned to rejoin his family business. P. L. Willcox. Ltd., Tyseley, Birmingham. He is supplying special air devices to customers' requirements. His position has been taken over by MR. J. Wistrotto. The technical sales department of industrial lubricating systems of Benton and Stone is managed by MR. ARTHUR SAM H.
MR. JAMES BARRIE has been elected chairman of the National Road Transport Federation. He is the national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, vice-chairman of the Scottish Section of the Institute of Transport and managing director of John Barrie (Contractor), Ltd., Glasgow. The vicechairmen of the N.R.T.F. are MR. S. C. BOND, president of the Traders' Road Transport Association, and MR. F. BROOMFIELD. chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. LORD TEYNFIAM has been re-elected president and MR. J. PATERON and MAJ. R. A. B. SMITH vice-presidents.
WE regret to record the deaths of vy M. AUGUSTE DUTREUX, MR. BASIL BURDETT and MR. JOHN AMERY-PARKES. M. Dutreux was president of the Societe Anonyme des Pneumatiques Dunlop, Paris, and a pioneer of the French motor industry. A native of Luxemburg. he was 82.
Mr. Burdett was for many years a director of Romac Industries. Ltd.
Mr. Amery-Parkes. up to the time of his death, was a member of the executive committee of the Automobile Association—a body which largely owes its existence to him.
No Evidence About Drivers' Employers BECAUSE the prosecution had given no evidence to show who were the employers of the driver of a vehicle alleged to have been operated by R.A.H. Transporters, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, without a licence, Sunderland magistrates last week dismissed proceedings brought against the concern by the Northern Licensing Authority.
The prosecution said that a vehicle purporting to belong to the company had delivered a load to Mayfair Products, Ltd., Sunderland, and that the vehicle had no licence. A representative of Transmotors, Ltd., was called to produce an invoice from the defendants for the haulage of the load in question.
For R.A.H. Transporters, Ltd., Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw submitted that there was no case to answer. Under Section 1 (3) of the 1933 Act it was essential to prove by whom the driver of the vehicle was employed; and the person whose agent or servant the driver was " shall be deemed to be the person by whom the vehicle is being used." No evidence had been called by the prosecution to show whose employee the driver was.
The bench upheld this submission. The same charge had previously been contested before Newcastle magistrates, who dismissed it on grounds of "lack of jurisdiction." • NEW DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHTS SOON?
DRAFT regulations embodying amendments to the Construction and Use Regulations, especially with regard to increased widths, lengths and gross weights of vehicles, will shortly be published. This is forecast in the annual report of the National Road Transport Federation, which also states that it is expected that the new Road Traffic Bill will be published this year.
Concerning the restrictions placed on goods vehicles in large towns to case congestion, the report considers that these do nothing to answer the problem. New roads should be built and alternative routes for through traffic provided.
I.H. BUY JOWETT FACTORY THE factory and equipment owned and operated by Jowett Cars. Ltd., Bradford, have been purchased by the International Harvester Co. of Great Britain. Ltd.. subject to consent by the Treasury and Jowett shareholders. Jowett state that the sale price is some £140,000 in excess of the book value of the assets concerned.
The purchase represents the second major expansion in two years by International Harvester.
NEW E.R.F. COMPANY ANEW private company with a capital of £100 has been formed to acquire the whole of the £20,000 issPed share capital of E.R.F., Ltd. Its title is E.R.F. (Holdings), Ltd. The first directors are not named.