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MR. KAYE DON, managing director of U.S. Concessionaires, Ltd., is leaving England next week to visit Latil agents in Singapore, India and Pakistan.
MR. R. A. BISHOP has been appointed general publicity manager of the British Motor Corporation, Ltd. He retains his position as general manager of Nuffield Press, Ltd.
Coe. A. JERRETT, president of the Traders' Road Transport Association and a director of the Guy and Sunbeam companies, has been elected an honorary life member of the British Legion.
Ma. E. L. Carr has become manager of the London depot of the Daimler Co., Ltd., in succession to MR. JOHN DENT. MR, L. G. BATT has been appointed manager of the Edinburgh depot and MR. A. P. ELLIOTT of the Whitley Bay depot.
MR. R. A. PAGET, traffic manager of Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., has been appointed assistant traffic manager of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd. He has been with S.U.T. for the past three years, and before that was engaged with the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.
MR. G. W. BAKER has been appointed fork-truck sales engineer for Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland of Coventry Climax Engines, Ltd. MR. J. TWIGGINS has joined the company's fork-truck technical sales department. He was formerly with the London Brick Co., Ltd.
MR. I. C. ELWES, having resigned his position of director and sales manager of University Motors, Ltd., has now, jointly with his brother, M. R. C. ELWES, acquired control of D. Rowe and Co., Ltd., Ford main dealers in Chichester. Mr. R. C. Elwes, who has business connections in the north of England, is chairman of the company, whilst Mr. J. C. Elwes is resident managing director.
MR. C. C. CATFORD, MR. L. C. JERMAN and MR. E. A. CULLEN have been appointed assistant district managers for the London region of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. Mr. Catford covers West London, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Berkshire; Mr. Jerman, East London and Essex, and Mr. Cullen, Kent, Sussex and Surrey. New sales representatives have been appointed. . They are MR. W. S. CLARKE, covering West London, MR. E. C. BELL, Sussex, and MR. A. PITTAR, Middlesex. MR: K. E. CLOWES is the new sales representative for South Birmingham, and MR. W. A. B. STIRLING for Edinburgh, the Lothians and Peebles-shire.
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MR. FRANK PERKINS, chairman and managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., is to sail to India next week to consider the establishment of a branch factory.
MR. J. D. M. SCOTT, assistant traffic manager of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., has been appointed traffic manager of City of .Oxford Motor Services, Ltd.
MR. J. W. Howeerr is expected to remain chairman of Associated Engineering (Sales), Ltd., and a director of Associated Engineering Holdings, Ltd., of which group Wellworthy, Ltd., are members. He is chairman and managing director of Wellworthy, Ltd.
MR. A. TWIDLE, chief automobile engineer of the B.E.T. Federation, Ltd., is retiring on December 31 after 48 year's service. The post will not be filled for the time being and MR. F. J. Gown, Mr. Twidle's chief assistant, will be responsible for the work of the department.
SIR WALTER MONCKTON, Minister Of Labour, last Friday visited the Brook Lane factory of Trico-Folberth, Ltd. MR. PAUL N. MarroN, managing director, Ma. G. B. COOKE, director, MR. J. W. TYRE, works manager, and MR.. W. MONEY, personnel manager, welcomed him.
MR. A. G. GRANT has been appointed commercial manager (home) and MR. M. IL REID commercial manager (planning and overseas) of the Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., following the appointment of MR. L. W. DENNIS as managing director of Cape Asbestos (Canada), Ltd. MR. M. A. F. NEWTON has been appointed personal assistant to MR. K. C. GRAY, who is now sales director, and is succeeded as publicity manager by MR. H. BARTY-KING. MR. N. A. C. JAMES has become southern area sales manager.
STAFF VACANCY
THERE is a vacancy on the staff of The Commercial Motor for a technical sub-editor. The successful applicant must be about 25 years of age, have a sound engineering training and be able to drive heavy vehicles. A faculty for writing plain, fluent English is essential.
Preference will be given to a. man who has served as a student engineer with a commercial-vehicle manufacturer and holds the Higher National Engineering Certificate. A knowledge of French and German will be helpful.
TYNE TUNNEL NOT FORGOTTEN THE Tyne road tunnel scheme will be
fitted into the road-works programme as soon as possible, Mr. H. Molson, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, promised a deputation from on Tyne Tunnel Joint Committee on Monday.
Axle Shaft Lasts 20 Times Longer
A FIER 18 months' research, Leyland
Motors, Ltd., have put into production a range of rear-axle shafts of a new metallurgical standard for use in heavy-duty goods and passenger models. It is conservatively estimated that the new shafts have a fatigue life three to foietimes as long as that of former types.
To reproduce the maximum stresses which an axle shaft has to withstand, the company's research division built a special machine which imparted,an alternating twist of 111 degrees to a pair of shafts. This was equivalent to the effect of letting in the clutch with the engine running fast and with bottom gear engaged, and of suddenly releasing the accelerator pedal at-peak revolutions in bottom gear. The machine reproduced these conditions 6,600 times an hour.
When the trials ended, the last shaft to be tested incorporating the new improvements withstood the treatment 20 times longer than the first.
P.V.O.A. COMPLAIN ABOUT PRIVATE SERVICES
REPREREPRESENTATIONS have been SENTATIONS made by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association about the increasing use by contractors, local authorities and hoteliers, of their own vehicles to carry passengers, irrespective of existing road transport facilities licensed for such purposes.
An unchecked extension of such operation is reported to be the conveyance of workpeople to social functions out of working hours, for which the P.V.O.A. say "there can be no possible justification, especially as the ' reward ' factor must obviously be existent."
CARNETS TO SPREAD?
BRITISH coaches travelling in Italy and Belgium may be required to carry log sheets similar to the carnet de bord in force in France. Operators likely to enter these countries are advised by the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association to make inquiries from the appropriate authorities before doing so.
Although British operators of coaches in France are not required to comply with the regulation concerning the use of yellow head lamp bulbs, their use is considered by the Association to be advisable in the interests of road safety.
PRESSURE FOR CONCESSION
LOCAL authorities in Northumberland are to confes at Blyth on December 16 about a campaign to raise to 15 years the limiting age for the payment of children's half-fares. 13lyth Corporation have for many months unsuccessfully tried to obtain this concession, and recently decided to oppose the renewal of operators' licences unless it were stipulated.
Birmingham—London Service Increased
THE West Midland Licensing Authority has given the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., permission to run extra coaches on the Birmingham-London service, provided that passengers have through tickets to destinations on the south coast.
The extra vehicles will he operated at Christmas, Easter and Whitson, and from June to September.
It was reported in The Commercial Motor on September 25 that Midland " Red " had applied for permission to operate 100 extra vehicles. In their application, the company declared that their existing service was "swallowed up" by people travelling beyond London, and passengers to the capital were "squeezed out."
DIFFERENT REACTIONS ON TAX
THE Municipal Passenger Transport Association's appeal to operators to campaign against the fuel tax by means of posters and handbills has met with different reactions in Sheffield and Southport.
Sheffield Transport Department has decided to support the campaign and has drawn the city council's attention to the amount paid in tax, but Southport Transport Committee have recommended that no action in the matter be taken.
OUTSIDE HAULIERS BANNED
QNLY those hauliers .actually based in Quebec have the right to make deliveries within the Province, the Quebec Transportation Board have decided. The effect of the ruling is to ban operators from other Provinces from making final deliveries within Quebec after running in from outside.
The Smith Transport Co., Toronto, Ontario, sought permission to pick up and deliver goods within a 30-mile radius of Montreal. It was stated that the concern had been operating such a service for some time, supplementing their trunk run from Toronto.
CPECIFICAT1ONS of tractors, imple
ments and agricultural equipment are contained in the 1954 edition of "Farm Mechanization" Directory, obtainable at 21s. from all booksellers or 22s. by post from the publishers, Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1.
There is also much supplementary information of value to the modern farmer, and the book is well bound and has thumb-tab card guides for quick reference to its various sections.