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Mr K. G. Piper, 47, has been appointed manager of the Chichester haulage depot of P. D. Wharfage and Transport Ltd la member of the Powell Duffryn Group), G. V. Hobbs, 35, manager of the Croydon distribution depot, and J. J. Crawford, 37, assistant to the director—transport, R. Hough. Mr Piper, for the past year general manager with A. W. Dunn Transport Ltd at Salfords. Surrey, spent 44 years with P.D. Wharfage as transport manager at Shoreham. At Chichester he succeeds L. H. Sensier, who has retired. Mr Hobbs joins the company from Containerbase Federation where he was operations supervisor. His responsibilities now include distribution of oil products from Burmah Castro]. Mr Crawford spent 14 years as transport manager with William Todd and Co Ltd, and three years with the North Western division of the National Coal Board. At P.D. Wharfage he replaces G. Parsons who has left to join his family abroad. Based at Portslade, Mr Crawford has special responsibilities for contract hire matters and licensing duties.
J. G. Woollam retired on Tuesday from the chairmanship of Containerway and Roadferry Ltd and of its associated companies Ferry Trailers Ltd, Irish Ferry ways Ltd. Lawther and Harvey Ltd, and N.V. Containerway. Belgian SA. Harold Elliott, a director of Containerway and Roadferry and of one of its predecessors. British Road Ferry Services Ltd, since 1964, becomes chairman of these companies on a part-time basis.
F. K. Farquharson, of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, has been elected chairman of the Freight Transport Association's technical committee. He succeeds F. Potts, of William Timpson Ltd.
George Lambert, 43, has been appointed as development engineer (Isotanks) for Yorkshire Engineering and Welding Co Ltd. This follows the news of Yewco's purchase from Andrews of Aintree Ltd, of the designs, approvals and plant for the entire Isotank container concept. Mr Lambert. a member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, was with Andrews of Aintree as development engineer for two years.
Edgar Blantern, has retired after a number of years as transport manager of and 50 years with Ketton Cement Co Ltd, Rutlandshire. Ernest Abbott, Salopia Saloon Coaches Ltd, accountant and company secretary; Bryan Parkes, traffic manager; and Stanley Povey, operations manager, have been appointed executive directors. Ivan Eaton, a director of the company, formerly re-elected annually, has been appointed a permanent director. H. W. B. Richards continues as chairman and managing director: E. T. Davies as director and general manager and I. J. Eaton as director and deputy general manager.
OBITUARY
We record with regret the deaths of Maurice Brown and John Foley Egginton.
Mr, Brown had been assistant traffic manager at Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd since April 1958. He joined Yorkshire Traction as a transport boy at 8s a week in October 1925, just before his 14th birthday.
Mr Egginton, of Sutton Coldfield, was one of the first solicitors to specialize in road transport law and he was well-established in this field before the 1933 Act became operative. For a time he was West Midland deputy LA. He was a member of the Institute of Traffic Administration and closely connected with the old Associated Road Operators. He and the late Scott Hall, the costs expert ("S.T.R." of Commercial Motor), were the only nonoperators present at Earls Court in September, 1937. when the National Conference of Express Carriers (now the Express Carriers group in the RHA) was launched.