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Mr. Peter Walker, Conservative M.P. for Worcester, has accepted the presidency of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses in succession to Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, Conservative M.P. for Thanet, who served as president for seven years. Mr. Walker, 32, is chairman of a firm of Lloyd's insurance brokers.
Mr. J. W. Kennedy, manager of the S.M.T. Insurance Co. Ltd., has been appointed a director of Scottish Omnibuses Group (Holdings) Ltd., and of the S.M.T. Insurance Co. Ltd.
Mr. Jackson Haggard, general manager of Southport Corporation Transport Undertaking, has been elected chairman of the managers' section r)f area C of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, Mr. R. MacKenzie has been elected chairman of the Scottish section of the Institute of Transport for the current season. Mr. MacKenzie, who is general manager of Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., has recently accepted an invitation to examine the operation of public transport services in Jersey and to report on it.
Mr. J. P. Marshall, traffic superintendent of the Mansfield District ,Traction Co. for the past 27 years, retired last week. He has been in the transport service for 39 years, holding posts in Scotland before moving to Mansfield. Mr. G. E. Henshaw, the company's chief clerk, will be the new traffic superintendent. with the object of recommending what form the scheme should take and What legislative action would be required. The committee work had started, said Lord Chesham, and was milking progress.
Mr. Peter Bloomfield has been appointed chief designer of the York Trailer Co. Ltd. He was previously head of the York Third Axle division, having joined the company in 1959. Mr. D. B. Amos has joined York as contracts sales manager and Mr. Alan W. Turner as products application engineer.
Mr. A. A. Halley has been re-elected president of the council and general committee of the Scottish Motor Trade Association Ltd. Mr. W. D. Miller has been re-elected retailer vice-president; Mr. E. Thompson is the immediate pastpresident.
Brig. G. M. Macdonald retired last week as secretary of the British Transport Vehicle Manufacturers' Association. Mr. R. Woodward, who has retired from the service of A.C.V. Ltd., has taken over from Mr. Macdonald.
The Minister of Transport has appointed the following as members cf the Transport Users Consultative Committee for the East Anglia area: Aid. F. G. Banks, Mr. A. M. Behagg, Mr. W. J. Bird, County Cllr. R. Boldys, County elk. J. L. Brighton, Mr. J. A. Cook, Mrs. B. E. Double, ClIr. W. T. Dring, County ClIr. F. H. Easton, Mr. P. Francis, Mr. M. 0. Gill, Cllr. Maj. H. H. Hill, Mr. W. Inskip, Cur. J. Malley, Mr. A. N. Mann, Mr. A. C. Maton, County Ald. A. E. Meeks, Mrs. M. II. Neal, Mr. A. Norman, Mr. R. V. Pohlman and County ClIr. F.. G. Taylor-Balls. alr. J. L. Brighton, a new member, is chairman of the N.F.U. Headquarters Transport Committee, and another new member, Cllr. Maj. H. H. Hill, is a former vice-chairman of the Eastern area of the T.R.T.A.