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MR. F. R. SIMMONDS, assistant secretary to the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., since 1954. has retired after 40 years' service.
MR. A. R. WOODHEAD has become head of the development department joining division at Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., Ban bury. • MR. A. SMITH has become cominercial vehicle sales manager for Freeman, Oakes and Co., Ltd., Sheffield, Part of the Kenning Group.
MR. H. EDWARD LINLEY, service liaison manager for the Kenning Group since 1955, has been appointed assistant general service manager. He joined the group in 1950.
MR. W. WANSTALL has become sales and technical service representative in East and West Africa for Chloride Batteries, Ltd. He joined the company in 1948.
MR, WENDELL S. CLOUGH has been appointed managing director of Chrysler Motors, Ltd., and Dodge Bros. (Britain), Ltd„ succeeding MR. WILLIAM WALLACE, who has retired.
MR, F. E. WILKINS, senior executive assistant in London Transport's Press and publications office, has become a principal executive assistant. He joined the L.T.E. in 1947 as a Press assistant.
MR. B. S. STOCKER, mechanical superintendent at Bedford for the United CountieS Omnibus Co., Ltd., has become a Ministry of Transport vehicle examiner in the Eastern Traffic Area.
MR. GEORGE LESLIE, traffic manager of
the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., since the company's formation in 1932, has retired. He is succeeded by his assistant, MR. A. NEWMAN, who joined the company in 1945.
SIR RICHARD EDGAR HUGHES, manager and a director of Essam and Hewson, Ltd., motor engineers and distributors, Sheffield, has retired. He is succeeded as manager of the Kenning subsidiary by MR. THOMAS MORTON.
MR. J. R. LINDSAY, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, is seriously ill in hospital. A sitting which he was to have held in Liverpool on Tuesday had to be cancelled. He has recently been in poor health.
MR. F. R. PYWELL has been elected chairman of the Southampton centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration, with MR. A. G. THYER as vice-chairman. Treasurer is MR. J. R. THOMPSON, and the secretary, MR, H. G. BROWN.
MR. PERCY LIVSEY, managing director of Mutual Finance. Ltd., and MR. R: 0. MORRS, deputy chairman of the United Motor Finance Corporation, Ltd., have joined the board of the Mercantile Credit Co„ Ltd. MR. CHARLES WARREN has become a director of United Motor Finance.
133:'! MR. JOHN K. BAXTER, transport manager of Thos. Love and Sons, Ltd., Perth, has retired after 59 years with the company.
MR. HAROLD WATKINSON, Minister of Transport, is at present suffering from overstrain. On medical advice he is not accepting evening engagements.
TRYING TO BUY LICENCE, SAYS MAJ. EASTWOOD THE Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, refused to listen to a take-over application, last week, after he had examined the supporting letters. He told the applicant, Mr. R. E. Duffield, Boat House, Ripon, that the letters admitted that the B-licence vehicle concerned had been idle for eight months. He was not prepared to listen to an application to buy a licence.
At this, Mr. Duffield asked for the case to be treated as an application for a new B licence, but British Railways objected on the ground that it would have to be republished. The application was then withdrawn.
"EASE BUS TAX" CALL DRESSURE on the Government for an
easing of taxation on passenger transport is being exerted by Nottingham Corporation. The city's four M.P.s have been asked to support a call for relief.
Motorway Work Almost Up to Schedule
riEspiTE almost continuous rain since Li the contract was started on March 24 last, work on the London-Birmingham motorway is only slightly behind schedule. At present it is impeded by
floods, ice and snow. There have so far been only 14 weeks during which it has been possible to work the plant, costing £5m., at more than half its capacity, because of bad weather.
This information was given on Monday by Mr. J. Maurice Laing, managing director of John Laing and Son, Ltd., the contractors. He was speaking at a dinner at the Royal Automobile Club in London. He assured his hearers that the work would be completed on. time.
Two tenders—one at a firm price for work to be completed in 19 months, and
the other with a rise-and-fall clause,
covering a period of 31 months--were prepared by 24 people in two months.
Laing's tendered for only a 12-mile stretch of the road, but obtained the whole contract for 53 miles. Another two-mile section had since been added.
The company were told on January 20 last that they had been awarded the con tract and they had only two months in which to make all the vast plans required. The speed of the start of work had been remarkable, Mr. Laing said. Despite almost incessant rain, work to the value of f94.-m. was completed in less than half the contract time. Construction had been so highly mechanized that even in the summer no more than 70 men per mile were required.
ABNORMAL LOADS ON
MOTORWAYS DEFENDED A CASE for the use of motorways by rt vehicles carrying abnormal indivisible loads was presented by Mr. L. Patrick, secretary of the West Midland Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association, in a B.B.C. broadcast last Friday. He quoted a report by Lancashire County Police to the effect that wide loads on Preston by-pass had not affected traffic.
Most exceptional loads, he said, were between 9 ft. 6 in. and 14 ft, wide, On a three-lane motorway such a load would occupy not more than 17 ft. of width, including 2-ft, clearance on the off side, so that there would be 19 ft. still avail
able for other traffic. He resisted a suggestion that abnormal loads should be carried at night, because of the danger of doing so.
WOLVERHAMPTON T.R.T.A. TOPICS
ARRANGEMENTS for the "Kerb Space is Precious" campaign . in the Wolverhampton area will be discussed by the local branch of the Traders' Road Transport Association at their annual meeting next Monday. Also on the agenda are the increased speed limit for light vehicles, a proposed loading and unloading ban at Dudley, and the question of licences for drivers of batteryel ectrics.