IT was announced on Wednesday that Mr. S. F. Kneller,
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deputy chief officer (insurance and claims) of British Road Services, will shortly he leaving the service of B.R.S. His future plans are undefined.
. Mr. Kneller was responsible for dealing with the complex problems created by the variety of insurance policies which were inherited from some 4,000 undertakings acquired by B.R.S. and for the negotiation in their place of the present national scheme, which is unique in the field of road haulage insurance.
He has been in road haulage all his life, starting in the family business of Kneller and Chandler, Ltd., which had become a subsidiary of Transport Services, Ltd,, when that company was acquired by the British Transport Commission in 1948.
[Mr. Kneller's scheme of investigation • into accidents is published on page " 424.] "ZEALOUS" ACTION BY • N.E.A.V.B. DELEGATES DEP R ESENTATIVES of the IV National Employers' Association of .Vehicle Builders on the joint wages hoard were zealous in the interests of Association members—even at times to the embarrassment of other representatives on the board.
This tribute was paid by Mr. J. W. Shirley, president "zof the National Federation of Vehicle Trades, when he spoke at the annual dinner of the London branch of the N.E.A.V.B.
*He wished for mach closer co-operation between • the • three constituent bodies of the board—the N.F.V.T., the .N.E.A.V.B., and the Scottish National Vehicle Builders' Association. They ' tried to look at problems nationally. Problems that came before the board were apt to affect the larger companies far differently from the smaller -concerns.
JOURNEYS UP FROM 43 TO 89
-THE • Yorkshire Licensing Authority I has permitted Messrs. J. W. Kitchin and Sons, Pudsey, to increase their facilities, which woe introduced last 'year, for week-end summer coach travel between Bradford and Great Yarmouth, with a picking-up point at Stanningley.
The company applied to raise the number of vehicle journeys in each direction during the summer from 43 to 89, to extend the period of operation by a week at each end of the' season, and to set down and pick up passengers in Norwich.
British Railways objected.
MORE LIST 9 VEIIICLFS SOLD .nN Wednesday afternoon, tenders for the London meat-transport system of British Road Services were still being considered, but the other -three units with premises in list 9, including 78 vehicles, had been sold. 'The figures published on page 401 should be amended accordingly.