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MR. J. A. TEARE has become manager of the Guildford depot of E. J. Baker and Co. (Dorking), Ltd., main Bedford dealers.
• MR. DAVID DRUMMOND has been appointed to the public relations department of the Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., in an editorial capacity.
CUR. F. H. EASTON and Cwt. J. C. LAWS have been appointed members of the East Anglian Transport Users•Consultative Committee.
MR J. B. BURNELL, operating manager, central road services, London Transport Executive, will be the president of the Omnibus Society for 1956.
MR. W. YOUNG has joined the board of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. The company's general sales manager, he has been with the concern for nearly 35 years.
MR. W. H. S. JOY, formerly managing director of Peerless Motors, Slough, has been appointed sales director of Over Hall Garages, Ltd.. Bedfont, and associated companies.
MR. G.. J. Dictum, traffic development officer, London Transport ExecutNe. has succeeded MR. D. MCKENNA as a member of the Transport Users' Consultative CoMmittee for London.
MR. E. P. PEEL, after 34 years' service with Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., has relinquished his duties as secretary. He will remain on the board. MR. R. H. PEARSON, Chief accountant arid assistant to Mr. Peet, has become secretaQ,.
MR. P. C. WICKENS has been appointed chief engineer of the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., in succession to MR. L. M. PARKER. He was appointed. assistant engineer of the Devon General concern in 1946. and in 1951 became chief engineer of the East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd.
Ma. R. J. MIDDLETON, president of the British Society of Crankshaft and Cylinder Grinders, and MR. H. LEE, secretary, are attending an international conference of engine reconditioning experts in Paris. Mr. Middleton is managing director of Brookside Engineers, Ltd., Southend.
MR. R. F. HANKS is -to hand over to MR. J. R. WOODCOCK his duties as vicechairman and director of the Nuffield Organisation, so that he can spend more time on his work as chairman of the Western Area Board of the British Transport Commission. Mr. Hanks will remain a director of the British Motor Corporation. Mr. Woodcock, deputy managing director of Morris Motors, now becomes deputy chairman.
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MR. H. BANKS has been appointed transport manager of Wolverton Cooperative Society.
MR. JACK METCALFE has been appointed transport manager -of Royton Urban District Council.
MR. H. F. MINTER has been re-elected chairman, and MR. E. J. BOOTH and MR. H. J. C. MAILE vice-chairmen of the Wholesale Meat and Provisions Transport Association.
LORD 1-fugcomn, former chairman of the British Transport Commission, has accepted election as an honorary member of the Institute of Transport. He was president of the Institute from 1935-36.
MR. A. F. Wins has been elected chairman of Bristol Industries, Ltd., in place of MR. W. E. Hum', who is shortly to relinquish the position. MR. F. H. HUNT will be vice-chairman. MR, W. E. Hutsrr will remain as an executive director.
MR. N. GARRETT, of Foden's, Ltd., and MR. W. HUGHES, British Road Services, have been awarded Henry Spurrier Memorial Scholarships by the Institute of Transport to undertake research at the University of Indiana and to study goods terminal working in America. A silver jubilee scholarship has been awarded to MR. B. M. E. CI-MAHONE:4. Rhodesian Railways.
U.T.A. BUSES FOR INDIA
Pl.A BELFAST company, John Eastwood and Sons, Ltd., who recently • .appired 150 .obsolete .buses from the Ulster Transport Authority, are to sell about 12 to India. The company hope to obtain orders for another 60 from other overseas countries. Built in 193637. many of the buses had " years of useful life in them yet," said a spokesman for the company. .
£500,000 N.Z. LOSSES
URBAN transport services in New Zealand lost £500000 last year. The number of passengers carried was 4m. fewer than in the previous 12 months. Although higher fares were responsible for an increase in revenue of 1200,000, there was an advance in costs.
During the past year, tram services in Christchurch and New Plymouth were converted to motorbuses and trolleybuses.