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Men in the News
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Mr. Leonard R. Parker, who joined the fire engineering firm of Merryweather and Sons. Ltd., of Greenwich, in 1925 as an apprentice, has been appointed a director of the company. Mr. Parker became works manager in 1956 and in 1959 was appointed the company's chief engineer.
Hannibal Movements, Ltd., announce the appointment of Mr. J. HamiltonGibson as special representative, indivisible loads, general traffics, storage and distribution departments; Mr. A. Rimmer, as manager, Barrow on Soar, Leics depot; and Mr. D. Foster, as manager, London depot.
Mr. S. E. Raymond, at present assistant general manager (traffic) in the Scottish Region of British Railways, has been appointed traffic adviser at the Headquarters of the British Transport Commission. Mr. Raymond joined the London Passenger Transport Board in 1946, and after holding important appointments in staff management and administration with London Transport and British Road Services, was appointed in 1955 to the headquarters of the British Transport Commission as assistant manpower adviser. He was a member of the board of management of Pickfords from 1951 to 1955. Mr. R. Porrer has been appointed a director and Mr. E. F. Cripps has been appointed commercial manager of Rootes Acceptances, Ltd., a member of the Astley Industrial Trust Group.
Mr. Charles A. Moore has been appointed to the board of U.S. Industries, Inc. (Britain), Ltd. He is already a director of Burtonwood Engineering at Warrington, Lancashire, a subsidiary of U.S.I.
Mr. Ronald Herring, south eastern area manager for Guy Motors, Ltd., of Wolverhampton, is resigning after 15 years' service to go into the catering business. He is opening a restaurant at Clacton-on-Sea.
Mr. R. N. Heaton has been appointed a deputy secretary at the Mibistry of Transport with responsibility for toads and traffic. Mr. Heaton will succeed Mr. ,I. E. Hampson, who is vacating his present post at his own request in order to become the Principal Establishment and Organization Officer.
Mr. Heaton, who is a deputy secretary at the Ministry of Education, has been released by the Minister of Education, the Rt. Hon. Sir David Eccles, M.P., from his present post in order to take up this appointment. The appointment will take effect from June 1, 1961.
The present Principal Establishment and Organization Officer in the Ministry of Transport, Mr. C. P. Scott-Malden, will assume responsibility for current questions connected with the British Transport Commission.
Mr. Ralph Neville Heaton, who is 49, has been a deputy secretary at the Ministry of Education since 1954. He entered the Board of Education i0 1934 and was under-secretary from 1946 to 1953. He has had wide experience of local authority matters and capital investment programmes.
Obituary
We record with deep regret the deaths of Mr. Noah Robinson and Major William Lyne Smith.
Mr. Robinson was a joint managing director of Willenhall Motor Radiator Co., Ltd. He was associated with the company for 39 years and was appointed to the board in June, 1950.
Major Lyne Smith, deputy chairman and joint managing director of Martin Walter, Ltd., Folkestone, was 66. He had just returned from South Africa where he had been on a market research and export drive for Dormobile and Utilecon productions. He joined Martin Walter's in 1922.
I.O.T.A. OFFICERS
THE Institute of Traffic Administration • have elected the following officers for the year 1961-62: President, Lord Merrivale, of Walkhampton; vicepresidents, R. P. Bowyer, A. Lawes Cole. L. C. Harrison, C. J. Parker, B. R. Miller, F. N. White. Tom Jackson, J. Foley Egginton, T. J. D. Morris, Alex MacNair, A. T. Hills; past chairman of Council. W. Lindley; chairman of National Council, K. J. P. Bowyer; vicechairmen of Council, W. Dale, J. L. Austin: hon. treasurer, L. C. Harrison; editor of Institute's Journal. C. J. Parker.
BUS PAY AGREEMENT BUS PAY AGREEMENT
THE National Council for the Omnibus Industry decided in London this week to accept the recommendation of the Board of Arbitration which has been considering the union's claim for higher pay and better conditions.
It means that the 100,000 Provincial busmen in private and B.T.C.-controlled undertakings will be paid an extra I Is. per week back-dated to May 10. They will also get extra pay for Saturday afternoon work and for early and late duties
NEW LUCAS AGENCY
AN agreement has been signed between Joseph Lucas (Export), Ltd., and FIMA S.p.A. of Mogadiscio, in the Somali Republic, setting up a new agency to cover the southern region of the Republic.