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MR. L. B. CHAMLL has been promoted from assistant transport manager to transport and purchase casings manager of Blue Peter Retreads, Ltd.
MR, C. J. PRESTON, a senior sales representative of Joseph Lucas (Export), Ltd., is leaving London on March 6 for a 14-day sales and service visit to Lucas agencies in Tripoli and Benghazi.
MR, DOUGLAS COWLING has been appointed manager of. the newly opened branch of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., at 2-4 Cleveland Street, Hull. For the past five years Mr. Cowling has been sales manager of Simms' Sheffield branch.
MR. W. A. B. Goss, who for many years has represented Yorkshire operators aS an advocate before Licensing Authorities and the Transport Tribunal, has been appointed a County Court Judge on the Leeds circuit.
MR. B. C. L. BARTON has been appointed a member of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the East Midland Area until May 31, 1962. He is the transport manager for John Player and Sons. Nottingham.
MR, C. D. MORGAN, secretary of the British Road Federation, is later this year to take up the appointment of secretary to the Institution of Structural Engineers. His successor at B.R.F. has not yet been appointed, Mr. Morgan became sezretary of B.R.F. in 1953. Before that he was for six years secretary of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers.
MR. H. JOYCE has been appointed Passenger Trade Group Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union for the Lancashire area. Mr. Joyce, who started as a bus conductor on Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., in 1929, served on the General Executive Council of the union from 1954 to 1957 when he was appointed a full-time officer.
B12 NAR. W. P. JAMES, who has been chairman of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners for the past nine years, took his place as chairman for the last time at the sitting on February 24_ He retired last week to take up an appointment as a member of the Air Transport Licensing Board in London.
At his last sitting many people who had appeared before him paid tributes. Mr. G. Beames, of the 13.T.C., said that in his experience he had never known a better Traffic Commissioner. "I would go further and compare you to the late Sir William Chamberlain who was selected by the Ministry of Transport to be the first Traffic Commissioner."
He added: " I have not always agreed with your decisions but they have always been given with the greatest of patience."
A solicitor, Mr. J. Foley Egginton told Mr. James: "1 would like to oiler you my personal thanks for your sympathetic understanding of the difficulties confronting solicitors and for your help in smoothing over these difficulties."
The chairman of the Birmingham sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. J. Neeley, said that the decisions Mr. James had given during his term of office had always been impartial.
At a Press reception on Monday, Mr. James talked of the first important application that came before him when he took up his duties. "It was a fares application by Birmingham Corporation and 1 had noticed that there were no adverts on their buses and it was my idea that the transport department started carry ing adverts on their buses. This now brings in £90,000 a year," he said.
.Successor to Mr. James is Birmingham solicitor, Mr. John Else, who takes up his new position in April.