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WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. IN F. Allison, Mr. W. E. O'Shei, Mr. Standerwick, Mr. N. Stott, Mr. J. T. Clegg, Dr. H. Weitz, Dr.-Ing. W. Staniewicz, Mr. J. Waddams and Mr. C. W. Brett.
Mr. Allison died suddenly at his Cottingham home, aged 62. He was a director of Sam Allan (Hull) Ltd. for almost 20 years. At one time, Mr. Allison was chairman of the Hull branch of the Road Haulage Association.
The founder'and chairman of Magnatex Ltd., me O'Shei, died on October 25. He came to this country in 1928 and in 1932 opened a factory in Brentford known as Trico-Folberth Ltd. In 1941 he founded M'agnatex and in 1947 commenced the manufacture of "Tex" motorcar accessories.
Mr. Standerwick, a pioneer of bus and coach travel in Lancashire and a director and founder of W. C. Standerwick Ltd., died on October 31. In 1912, he drove a party from Blackpool to London on an eight-day tour. It was the first coach from Lancashire to undertake such a journey.
Mr. Stott, director and secretary of E.N.V. Engineering Company Ltd., died on October 28. He joined the company in 1943 and was appointed a director in 1953.
Mr. Clegg, aged 56, died last Sunday. He was the secretary and a director of the Nile Street Carrying Co. Ltd., Rochdale, and had been with the company for 27 years.
Dr. Weitz, for many years vicechairman of Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, of Cologne, the manufacturer of Magirus-Deutz commercial vehicles, died at the age of 72. He was honorary president of the German Red Cross and a former Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Dr.-Ing. Staniewicz, a former director of the Brunswick, West Germany, commercial vehicle manufacturing firm Bussing Automobilwerke AG and one of the pioneers of commercial vehicle construction, died in Brunswick at the age of 80. He was an honorary doctor of Brunswick University for his services to goods vehicle and bus construction.
Mr. Joseph Waddams, a former haulage contractor at Bedworth. near Coventry, was 73.
Mr. Brett, managing director and founder of Barimar Ltd., died on Friday, aged 80. A member of the Institute of Welding, he was a pioneer in the applica: tion of scientific welding to the repair of machinery.