F. Broomfield of Barton Transport Ltd. has been elected chairman
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of the Road Operators' Safety Council with effect from January 1. Mr. Broomfield, who represents the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association on that body, succeeds R. MacKenzie, who has been chairman of the Council since October 1965. T. W. H. Galley, who tendered his resignation from the Council owing to increasing pressure of business commitments, is succeeded as vicechairman by B. Griffiths (Conference of Omnibus Companies). The other vice-chairmen are R.. Mackenzie (Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association); W. L. Russell (Municipal Passenger Transport Association); K. Shave (London Transport Board); A. C. Thomson (Transport and General Workers' Union); Peter Yorke (Conference of Omnibus Companies).
R. V. Frost, 53, is to join the Freight Transport Association in March and will specialize in freight transport user matters. Mr. Frost was assistant to the head of the transport department of the Federation of British Industry from 1956 to 1962 when he was appointed secretary of the British Shippers' Council. Before 1966 he had operational experience both with the railway and private and public sectors of road haulage.
Sir Ronald Stokes, BLMC chairrnah and managing director, who was created a life peer in the New Year Honours, is to take the title Lord Stokes of Leyland in
the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Alfred Smith, 44, has been selected from a shortlist of six' by the Grimsby Cleethorpes Joint Transport Committee as its new transport manager and engineer. Mr. Smith, since 1963 deputy manager and engineer with Reading Corporation Transport, succeeds John Rostron who is leaving to become manager and engineer of Huddersfield Corporation Transport.
G. M. Newberry has been elected chairman of the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. and of its five subsidiaries, the Gateshead and District, Tyneside Omnibus, Sunderland District, Tynemouth and District and Wakefield's Motors companies, in succession to A. F. R. Carling who has resigned from each board. 1. R. Patey, at present chairman of United Automobile Services, has been appointed a director of the six companies of the Northern General Group.
OBITUARY We record with regret the deaths of David Edward Langton, W. Ken Parker and Rowland D. Riley, Mr. Langton, 61, who died at his home in Winterton, Lincolnshire, had been a road haulier for 40 years. He was a governing director of his company, D. E. Langton Ltd., and a member of the R HA. Mr. Parker was Leyland Motors Ltd.'s Midlands assistant regional sales manager until his retirement last June. He retained an interest in the industry by ' acting as consultant with Watts Factors of Lydneythe Leyland Albion distributor. Cremation took place at Worcester.
Mr. Riley, 63, was manager of the Stockport depot of Telehoist Ltd. He worked with Telehoist from its formation—for 20 years operating from its Cheltenham headquarters.