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MR. PHILLIP T. WARD, MR. G. S. Woof). MR. J. S. BRADSHAW and MR. E. a Motu, local directors of Thomas W. Ward, Ltd., have now been made directors.
MR, L. Hattaat., general sales manager of Dunlopillo, has received the first of the gold watches given by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., to employees with 40 years of service, ING. H. J. J. Geesink has been appointed resident engineer for Leyland Motors, Ltd., in the Netherlands. He will form a link between the Leyland agent, Schmidt's Auto-en-Motorenbandel, and the factooy Ma. C. J. COUCH has been appointed tyre sales representative of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., covering the counties of Huntingdon, Bedford, Hertford, Buckingham, Oxford and Berkshire, as from January 1.
MR. D. G. STOKES, export manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has just returned from a tour of Spain and Portugal. He saw the first of the new Leyland oil-engined double-deck buses placed in service in Madrid.
LORD NUFFIELD has left in the "Dominion Monarch" on a trade tour of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Before he left he said that This year the Nuffield Organisation had
• exported more than 1,000 vehicles a week..
MR. R. E. Cox, rolling-stock engineer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's transport undertaking, has been appointed deputy transport manager at Bolton. He has played a leading part in the changeover from trams to trolleybuses and motorbuses, which is expected to be completed next year.
MR. C. P. 14ARTREY, advertisement manager of "The Comm/6M Motor." was last week re-elected chairman of the London and Home Counties Centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund. MR. G. SELWYN Smolt was re-elected vice-chairman. and MR. V. R. ROOK illortOrdry secretary.
SIR WILLIAM Rooms, K.B.E., chairman of the Rootes group, is indefatigable. He has again left for New York —his second visit to the United States this year—as the head of a group "working party," which is to examine industrial developments on the spot. The team will include research. engineering, sales and service directors, and it is intended to introduce, immediately on the return, any worth-while idea obtained. Sir William points out that British industry cannot afford to mark time untii the Anglo-American Advisory Council on British Production makes its influence fell The problems are much too urgent.
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MR. C. R. PETRIE, n vice-president, has been elected president of the Society of British Paint Manufacturers, in succession to MR, N. M. HADFIELD. Mr. Petrie has been succeeded as a vice-president by MR. F. W. BURMANN. MR. C. A. CARTER has been re-elected a vice-president, and MR C. R. PRESTON honorary treasurer.
'Ma. W. D. REAKES has been appointed general manager of Bournemouth Corporation's transport Department. He joined the Bournemouth undertaking in 1935 as traffic superintendent and was appointed deputy general manager in 1944; Mr. Reakes has been in charge of the serviae since the recent death of MR. D. R. MORRISON.
SIR CYRIL HURCOMR, chairman of the British Transport Commission, has been appointed by H.R.H. THE PRINCE REGENT OF BELGIUM a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown. As DirectorGeneral of the Ministry of War Transport during the 1939-45 war, Sir Cyril was closely associated with Belgian shipping. The decoration was presented last week by the Belgian Ambassador.
MR. S. L. Qutt4N, general manager of Brisbane (Australia) Corporation's transport undertaking, who has been on a visit to Britain, went to Newcastleupon-Tyne. He expressed the view that Newcastle's recently introduced 70seater trolleybuses were the finest he -had seen in any country, and the city, he said, would have a first-class transport system when its present plans were completed.
32-TONNERS FOR STEEL
THE Consett Iron Co., Ltd., is seek1 ing permission to operate 32-ton vehicles to carry materials from Consett to the company's steelworks at Jarrow. Local authorities, through whose areas the vehicles will pass, are to meet to select suitable roads capable of carrying the traffic.
"TRANSPORT COULD BE GIVEN BACK TO INDUSTRY "
I AM convinced that road transport can and will be denationalized if we want it and are prepared to work with that end in view," said Mr. Eric Taylor, J.P., at the annual dinner of the Southend sub-area of the Road Haulage Association last week.
Mr. Taylor urged that the Association should, as soon as possible, formulate its long-term policy, bearing in mind that a general election will take place, at the latest, in 1950.
Mr. R. B. Brittain, A.1.T.A., chairman of Southend sub-area, stressed the necessity of genuine co-operation between the Association and the British Transport Commission. . "Let the BT.C. deal with the longdistance services," he said, ." and we will deal with the short-distance transport. Between us we will give the country the finest system of transport that has ever been known anywhere, but this can be done only by co-operation between the B.T.C. and ourselves. We, therefore, look to the B.T.C. to hand us a large measure of their shortdistance work."
[Mr. Taylor is a member of the national council, executive committee and finance committee of the R.1-1.A.. and vice-chairman of the Metropolitan Area. He has been adopted as Conservative candidate for the constituency at present represented by Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport.—ED.]
'RETURN-LOAD TRICK": FOUR MEN GAOLED
QENTENCE of seven years' penal +–iservitude was passed on Harry Goodman, a Nottingham company director, at Leeds Assizes, last week, on a charge of receiving the bulk of a quantity of tyres, cloth, wireless sets and paint valued at nearly £28,000, alleged to have been stolen by means of the "return-load trick." He was also ordered to pay not more than £1,000 towards the cost of the prosecution.
Montague Keith Napier, company director, received five years' penal servitude on five charges of receiving, Two lorry drivers were also sentenced to imprisonment. Albert Slater, of Combe Road, Croydon, pleaded guilty to four charges of stealing, and received two years, and Kenneth William Shepherd, of Enfield, who pleaded guilty of receiving clothing. lyres and wireless sets, and was found guilty on another charge of receiving, 18 months.
The trial occupied 13 days.'
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Thirty-five countries have placed export orders, worth £800,000, for the Land-Rover since it was first introduced about eight months ago.
The Minister of Transport expects shortly to reach a decision on the proposal to increase the speed limit of heavy goods vehicles to 30 m.p.h.
The first annual report of the British Transport Commission will cover the 12 months from January to December, 1948. It is expected next summer.