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Pools winner wins licence
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• A company owned by a man who won £175,000 on the football pools was granted an 0 licence this week by the Metropolitan LA Mr D. I. R. Muir, for one vehicle and trailer, despite the issue of an immediate and a delayed GV9 in November last.
The application, made by Mr J. Duffey, of Warley Mount, Brentwood, was for one vehicle and trailer in possession with one more vehicle and trailer to be acquired. Since the original application a limited company had been formed and one of the directors, Mr F. Francis, represented the firm at the inquiry.
Mr Francis said that he had had experience in road haulage, working for BRS and BR and had recently completed a three-week Motec managerial course. Mr Duffey, he said, had had no previous connection with transport.
Referring to the issue of the GV9s in November, Mr Francis said that the vehicle concerned had since been sold and a new ERF unit acquired. Premises had recently been bought at Grays. Essex, but workshops had not yet been entirely completed and, in addition, a difficult and unmade road was used for access. Both the workshop and the road were due to be completed by June this year. The business was concerned mainly with the haulage of tinned meat and food-stuffs to and from Newcastle.
Mr Francis said that Mr Duffey was a man of "substantial means" and when asked by Mr Muir to elaborate he explained that he was the winner of £175,000 on Littlewood's pools. Mr Duffey was now anxious to go seriously into the haulage business.
Granting the licence, the LA said he was satisfied that the maintenance facilities were adequate for the one vehicle and trailer operating at the moment but the firm would have to reapply for the margin when the next vehicle, already on order, was delivered.
L. Patrick, 64, retires from the secretaryship of the Freight Transport Association's West Midland division on February 1 following 34 years service with the Association and its predecessor organizations. Mr Patrick was assistant secretary of the West ,Midlands division before becoming divisional secretary. He received an MBE in the recent New Year Honours list. His successor in Birmingham will be M. Richards, 33, at present secretary of the East Midlands division. Mr Richards joined the ETA in 1965 as Northern divisional secretary moving to the
Reginald Cole, 57, has been appointed to the full board of BRS {Contracts) Ltd from a position as executive director—contracts. Mr Cole has been with the nationalized road transport for more than 20 years; he was transport manager at Liss Transport Ltd, when it was acquired by the Road Transport Executive in 1949.
Eric J. Howarth, 30, joins Taskers Trailers Ltd as area representative for north-west England from John Allen and Sons (Oxford) Ltd, lorry-mounted crane manufacturer. He was previously with Boden Trailers Ltd.
K. R. Worrell, 40, deputy chief engineer of Midland Red, has been appointed chief engineer of East Kent Road Car Co Ltd on the retirement of S. H. Loxton. He takes up his new appointment on March 1.
William Shevas, district traffic manager for W. Alexander and Sons (Fife) Ltd at Dunfermline for the past 10 years, has been appointed traffic manager for the whole of Fife.
R. S. Brimicombe continues as managing director of a renamed subsidiary of Godfrey Holmes, namely Godfrey Holmes (Western) Ltd. formed from George Hazelby (Motor Factors) Ltd and the Bournemouth and Poole branches of Godfrey Holmes. It has administration offices at Exeter {Tel: Exeter 799121. "
W. Pilling, 47, has been appointed sales representative of the newly formed trailer unit of Oliver Rix (Commercial Vehicles) Ltd. Mr Pilling will cover the Yorkshire territory, taking in Manchester. E. Readman, 41, will deal with Norfolk, Northants and Lincs. The trailer unit was formed last month to concentrate on the national marketing of trailers from a new trailer centre in Nantwich, Cheshire.
P. Attvvood has joined the passenger vehicle division of Williams Motor Co (Manchester) Ltd as area sales representative. Mr Attwood was formerly with Kirkby and Sons.
OBITUARY
We record with regret the deaths of the Hon. Brian Rootes, and William James Eastaugh and Alfred A. Smith.
The Hon. Brian Rootes, who was 51, had retained interests in the motor trade but was no longer directly connected with the company founded by his father, having resigned in 1967 when managing director of the export side of Rootes Motors Ltd (now Chrysler UK Ltd): he joined Humber Ltd as a pupil in 1938 and served as a major in the war. His brother, Lord Fiootes, is chairman of Chrysler UK. Mr Eastaugh. 78, pioneered in Yorkshire the carrying of liquid in bulk. With his younger brother. Alfred, he founded Eastaugh Bros Ltd in 1920; the firm became a group in 1958 with William Eastaugh remaining as a director until his retirement six years ago. Alfred Eastaugh died 15 months ago.
Mr Smith was general manager of Aberdeen Corporation Transport for 19 years until his retirement in 1953. He was a former chairman of the Scottish Road Passengers' Transport Association.