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Obituary

12th January 1962
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WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. Thomas Gore, Mr. H. M. Lawrence, Mr. R. C. Maunder and Mr. Herbert• Stubbs.

Mr. Gore, who was 65, was director of Southport and Birkdale Motor Carriage Co., Ltd., founded by his father.

Mr. Lawrence was materials handling, transport and coal manager of the Southern Gas Board. He was a member of the Research Committee of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and an original member of Sir Harold Hartley's Producer Gas Committee on Alternative Fuels for Motor Vehicles. He was also a member of the Regional Road Transport Advisory Committee for London and the Home Counties Region (Ministry of Transport) and the Divisional Com mittee of the old C.M.U.A., now the T.R.T.A.

In 1950 Mr. Lawrence received an award of £1,000 from the Royal Commission for Inventions concerning the handling of cement in bulk on war pre,jects. A Freeman of the City of London, has was only recently elected to the Court of the Worshipful Company of Carmen of which he had been a Liveryman for many years.

Mr. Maunder was area manager, West Wales, of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd. He was 52.

Mr. Stubbs, who was 69, was a local transport pioneer, of Grassington, Yorks. He was the last driver of the horse-drawn mail coach between Grassington and Halton Gill.


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