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MR, R. CLI FFORD has been elected chairman of the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association.
MR. A. E. CARROLL has been appointed London area manager of Advance Motor Supplies, Ltd. MR. D. C. HoNotrit will be deputy manager.
MR. J. AUSTIN has succeeded MR. B. MILLER as chairman of the Portsmouth branch of the Institute of Traffic Administration. The new vice-chairman is MR. M. JAMES.
MR. J. C. FRANKS has been appointed an additional Midlands represeniative of the Compoflex Co., Ltd, MR. J. G. PERRY, previously the sole representative in the area, will concentrate on the western counties.
MR. J. HEWSON has been elected chairman of the Yorkshire (Hull) Area of the Road Haulage Association. He is chairman of the R.H.A. National AgriculturaJ Group. MR. F. Ala tsoN and MR. H. HUNTER have been elected vice-chairmen.
MR. A. G. S. HERRERT, export manager of the Rover Co., Ltd., has returned after three months in Australia and South Africa. As the result of representations he made to the South African Government, South Africa is to increase its imports of Land-Rovers.
MR. R. G. JAMES, general manager of East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd.; MR. C. W. WROTH, general manager of Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and MR. H. ORME WHITE, manager and engineer, Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co., were elected last week to the council of the Public Transport Association.
Mr. 1. A. BRECKELL, managing director of Breckell and Nicholls, Ltd., Auckland, publishers of New Zealand Road Transport and Contracting, is visiting Britain to explain New Zealand's industrial needs to manufacturers. He is to tour Britain, concentrating mainly on the Midlands and the industrial north, and will be in London for some time. His address here will be care of Australia and New Zealand Bank, Ltd., 71 Cornhill, London.
MR. T. H. SUMMERSON, SIR CECIL MCALPINE Warn and MR. F. A. POPE have been appointed part-time members of the British Transport Commission. Mr. Summerson is chairman of the North Eastern Area Board of the B.T.C. Sir Cecil is shortly to relinquish his appointment as head of the British delegation to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. Mr. Pope, a former chairman of the Ulster Transport Authority, has just retired from his appointment as a fulltime member of the B.T.C.
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MR. F. G. L. LYNE has been appointed general manager of H. R. Owen, Ltd.
Ma. L. COLKETT has succeeded the late MR. S. 0, JARVIS as secretary of C. C. -Wakefield and Co., Ltd. Mr. Colkett joined the company in 1934.
MR. R. C. ALLEN, general sales manager of F. Perkins, Ltd., flies to North America on Sunday to make an extensive tour and meet manufacturers of appliances for which Perkins engines are suitable.
ATIIELSTONE TRY AGAIN
AN application was made by Athelstone Coaches,. Ltd., Hullavington, to the Western Licensing Authority last week to run an express service at week-ends to London for R.A.F. personnel, Ontwo ' previousoccasions the company had been granted a licence which had been revoked on appeal by the railways.
For the applicants, Mr. T. D. Corpe (who had in the earlier cases represented the railways) said that the rail service was inconvenient and there was a big difference in road and rail fares.. The rail fare was Et lls. 6d.. including the road link between Hullavington and Chippenham station, whereas the road fare was 15s.
At present, Athelstone Coaches provided vehicles to take men to the station but this was not a paying proposition.
Mr. A. C. F. Wyndeatt, for the railways, denied allegations that trains were crowded.
The application was granted.