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Ma. R. I. PINDER has succeeded MR. H. C. TErr as general sales manager of the Esso Petroleum Co.. Ltd. Mr. Tett has become a director.
M. H. GLASSDROOK has succeeded Ma. 0. BURGHAM as apprentices' training superintendent at the training centre of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
M. R. J. HUNT has succeeded MR. J. H. W. Pswi,vr4 as chairman of Ran
somes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd. Mr. Pawlyn continues as a director_
Ma. A. T. FROGOATT has retired from the chairmanship of Weymann's, Ltd., not Met ropolitan-Carnmel l-Weyman n Motor Bodies, Ltd., as stated last week.
PROF. A. N. Sriistrim. professor of economics at Leeds University, has been appointed chairman of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the Yorkshire area.
MR. F. T. WHITWORTH has been appointed Ministry of Transport senior traffic examiner for the East Midland
traffic area. He has been with the Ministry at Nottingham for 20 years.
Ma. E. J. BATCHELOR, managing director of Brush Coachwork, Ltd., has been appointed vice-chairman. He has also been appointed director and general manager of Henry Meadows, Ltd., Wolverhampton.
MR. D. R. WOLFENDEN, a 23-year-old ex-trade apprentice at Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been awarded a first-class honours degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. He joins the company's research division.
MR. K. FIRTH BUTTERFIELD, F.A.L.P.A., who has conducted negotiations for many hauliers whose businesses have been transferred to the Road Haulage Executive, is closing his Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leeds offices on July 25 and going into partnership with Messrs. Albert Prior and Grainger, 23-24, Ship Street, Brighton.
U.T.A. INQUIRY
D ARID deterioration in the circum
stances of public transport generally and the deficits incurred by the Ulster Transport Authority have been the cause of considerable concern to the Government" said Mr. W. V. McCleery, Minister of Commerce, in the Northern Ireland Parliament, last week. He was announcing his intention to introduce a Bill before Parliament enabling the Transport Tribunal to investigate the affairs of the U.T.A.
TRAM CONVERSION PROCEEDS THE fourth stage of the South I London tram conversion programme came into effect on Tuesday night. This stage, the smallest of the nine, involved the replacement of two tram routes and one bus route by three new bus routes. The extension of two existing bus services was also included.
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