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Employers' representatives on the working party on productivity which the National Negotiating Committee for the Road Haulage Industry is setting up are N. T. O'Reilly, R. H. Fanner, R. N. Ingram, J. P. Wells and T. J. E. Price.
At the a.g.m. of the Industrial Transport Association last week the following elections were made for the year 1966-7: chairman, W. R. Peel; vice-chairman, T. Southern.
At the 1966 annual general meeting of the Potteries area of the TRTA, A. E. Booth (J. Hewitt and Son (Fenton) Ltd.) was elected chairman, with H. Barker (Bearings Stockists (Stoke) Ltd.) deputy chairman. Vice-chairmen elected were .1. Hood (Adams Butter Ltd.) and D. Boston (Birkett and Roberts Ltd.). , F. H. Kellaway (R. Kellaway and Son) has been elected chairmgn of the West Cornwall sub-area of the Devon and Cornwall area, RHA, for the ensuing year. L. Hichens (Hichens Garage and Transport Ltd.) was elected vice-chairman.
Peter Slack, formerly of Boden Trailers Ltd., has joined T. W. Walker Ltd., as sales representative in Lancashire and the Midlands.
R. N. Smith has joined Murkett Bros. Ltd., the East Midland and East Anglian Vauxhall, Bedford, Rover, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce and Bentley organization with headquarters in Huntingdon, where his responsibilities will mainly be concerned With the commercial vehicle division. Mr. Smith was formerly sales director of Stewart and Arden Ltd., London.
John M. Dickson-Simpson, product planning engineer of the Leyland Motor Corporation, has left the company to set up a consultancy in commercial vehicle design planning and market research. He alto returns to road transport journalism as a free-lance technical writer.
The announcement last week that Leslie G. Watson had been appointed to the board of Tecalemit Ltd. was not correct. The company should have read Telamite Ltd. J. W. Shirley, director and general manager of Park Royal Vehicles Ltd., has been elected president of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers in succession to A. Jeffrey, director of James B. Stevenson Ltd., who now becomes immediate past-president.
Elections for the year 1966-7 in RHA Northern Area sub-areas included the following:— Barrow-in-Furness sub-area: K. Surphlis, chairman; R. Vickers, vice-chairman. Bishop Auckland sub-area: C. Ranaldi, chairman; D. Robinson and J. Crowther, vice-chairmen.
Sir David EL Burnett, chairman of the Proprietors of Hay's Wharf Ltd., flew to Cape Town on Monday for a 10-day South African visit. He will contact South African importers with a view to offering comprehensive handling and storage services from British manufacturers' production-line ends to any South African destination. A similar service would apply in reverse.
E. W. Hallwood has been appointed managing director of William Harper and Sons Ltd., haulage contractors, of Liverpool. Mr. Hallwood moves from the position of North-Western contracts branch manager for British Road Services, a position he had held since 1959. He was previously manager of the Liverpool city branch of BRS.
Richard Bennett Gosling has been elected chairman of A. W. Chapman Ltd., manufacturers of Leveroll seat mechanisms. He succeeds John MacNish, who has retired on medical advice.
George K. Thompson, manager (marketing) of Gulf Eastern Company, London, has been elected vice-president (marketing) of this wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation. Mr. Thompson joined Gulf in 1947.
K. G. Alien has been appointed chief engineer of Seymour Plant (Northern) Ltd., a newly created post. Mr. Allen was formerly with John Laing (Construction) Ltd.
OBITUARY We regret to record the death of T. L. Garner. Mr. Garner was a co-founder of Precision Rubbers Ltd., which began operations in 1949. He was managing director until 1963 and then became chairman. He was also a director of John Bull Rubber Co. Ltd. and Metalastik Ltd., and technical adviser to the John Bull Group. Mr. Garner was 63.