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COUNCif.r.0E ALFRED JOHN LUCKETT has been elected to succeed Alderman A. Sturgess as chairman of the Derby Transport, Stores and Cleansing Committee.
MR. j. WORSSAM, general manager of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., was formally elected president for the forthcoming year, at the annual meeting of the Norwich Chamber of Commerce.
ME. WALTER FLEXMAN FRENCH, managing director of United Service Transport Co., Ltd., has been elected a member of the Institute of Transport. Nil:. REINHARD BRITZ1US, chief time-table superintendent of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and MR. FRANK BRYAN, traffic manager of the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., have been elected associate-members of the Institute. MR. R. C. Br.vrn and MR. R. A. DANIELL have been elected to serve on the B.R.F,'s Council.
MR. FREDERICK SMITH, chief of the transport executive of Lever Brothers and Unilever, Ltd., whose portrait appears on this page, has been appointed Director of Food Transport, under the Food (Defence Plans) Department, for the co-ordination of food transport in the event of war.
MR. J. R. BULLOCK, a director of South Yorkshire Motors, Ltd., of Pontefract, has been elected a county councillor for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
:MR. CYRIL CULL, A.M.Itisr.B.E., managing director of Cull's Transport Services, Ltd., Tottenham, London, N.15, was, on May 15, elected vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce for the Boroughs of Hackney and Stoke Newington.
MR. PERCY Er..t.isoN, M.I.M.E., late general manager of the Eastbourne transport undertaking, has just been appointed Transport Officer for the south-eastern division of the Food (Defence Plans) Department.
MR. NORMAN H. DEAN, general manager of Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., Halifax, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. George W. Robinson as general manager of the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., Barnsley. MR. C. R. H. w ..REATHALL, assistant general manager of the latter company, will be Mr. Dean's successor as general manager of the Hebble con
cern. Mr. Dean has been HebbIe's manager since the undertaking was founded in 1924. Then it had six buses, whilst to-day it has a fleet of 72. The Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., operates 280 buses.