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MR. G. L. WaosraFFE, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., assistant rolling-stock superintendent to Huddersfield Corporation, has been appointed to a similar position to the transport department of Luton Corporation.
MR. W. S. D. HaramoNo was presented with three silver tankards and an oak tray, follbwing his retirement through ill-health, after 40 years' service as chief inspector of the Nottingham Passenger Transport Department.
MR. H. W. HATTON, A.M.I.Mech.E., engineer and technical adviser to Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., has asked us to contradict a rumour to the effect that he is leaving that company. He assures us that he has no intention of severing his connection with it.
MR. ALFRED ROBENS, M.R, has been appointed by the Minister of Transport, Mr. Alfred Barnes, M.P., to be his Parliamentary private secretary. Mr. Robens is an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, and a member of Manchester City Council.
Ma. J. S. WILLS, an executive director of B.E.T., was, this month, elected chairman of the Council of the Public Transport Association. The vice-chairmen elected were:—Messrs. S. Kennedy (a director of Thomas Tilling, Ltd.), and J. H. Watts (managing director of Red and White Services, Ltd.).
MR. H. E. PRICE: who, at the cornmen cement of the war, was appointed manager of the Aviation Division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., will resume his interest in the original Equipment Division of the company, of which he is sales manager, and will remain at Fort Dunlop. This ,Division handles the supply of wheels, tyres and accessories used as first equipment by makers of Commercial vehicles, ptivate cars and motorcycles, MR. A. T. PRIDDLE has relinquished 'his position as Assistant Difector of Tank Design and has become chief development engineer of C.A.V., Ltd., responsible for the technical direction of the company's activities. His association with the world of transport dates back to 1918, when he joined the Metropolitan Tramways, being subsequently appointed to the laboratory and inspection department. As assistant rolling stock superintendent of the Metropolitan Tramways, he was responsible for the first installation of trolleybuses in the London area. The development of these vehicles was also his responsibility as traction engineer with the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., which position he held until 1940.
COLONEL R. T. GRANTHAM, who has for several years been in charge of the production side of T.T.2—the wheeled-vehicle section of the M.O.S.has been appointed general sales manager to the Brockhouse Organization at West Bromwich. Colonel Grantham started his career with the Star Engineering Co., Ltd., of Wolverhampton, and has since been assotiated with the Ransome and Manes Bearing Co., Ltd., the Rover Co., Ltd., and Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. Called up with the Emergency Resetve of Officers shortly after the outbreak of the war, he was posted to T.T.2, where he is now Deputy Director of Mechanization. He is shortly expecting his release from the Army, and will take up his new appointment in October.
MR. FRANK G, WOOLLARD, M.B.E., president of the I.A.E. for the session 1945-6, is well known to the majority of people in this industry. He is a director of the Birminghafn Aluminium Castings (1903) Co., Ltd., and of the Midland Motor Cylinder Co., Ltd. Gaining his practical and drawing-office experience as an apprentice to the chief mechanical engineer of the London and south Western Railway, he was later with Weigel Motors, Ltd., and E. G. Wrigley, Ltd., becoming chief engineer and assistant managing director of the last named. In 1923 he joined the Morris Engines (Coventry), Ltd., as general manager, becoming later a director of Morris Motors, Ltd., and Morris Industries, Ltd. In 1932 he was appointed managing director of RudgeWhitworth, Ltd., his present appointments dating from 1936.
MR. F. G. L. LYNE has been appointed a director of Egertons (Ipswich), Ltd,, Northgate, Ipswich, and will be in charge of the company's Sales department. For 11 years prior to the war Mr. Lyne was sales manager and he has returned to the concern after 51 years of military service. He was commissioned to the Suffolk Regiment in 1940, and has been released with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was awarded the D.S.O. in Tunisia, was Mentioned in Dispatches while in command of the Armour Reinforcement Regiment, C.M.F., and, in March of this year, be was sent to Greece to arrange the initial training of the newly formed Greek Armoured Recce Regiments. On completion of his duties in that country he was awarded the Greek Distinguished Service Medal