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...MK1-$).-TN,ER3SELL. as been appointed vieveliairman of Skefko BailBearing Ltd.MR. J. 'LARSSON has become a .director and Ma. J. L. DICKINSON an
alternate director. •
MR. C. B. CLAPHAM. B.Sc. (ENO.), A.M.INsT.T., lately assistant secretary of the Road PassengerExecutive, has been transferred to the London, Transport Executive as assistant to the works -manager (buses and coaches) in the department of the chief mechanical engineer (road services):' • COL, A. JERRETT, M.INsT.T„ president of the Traders' Road Transport Associalion-, has been .re,eleetecl a 'vice,president of the International Road 'Transport Union. Together with DR. .A. SPAT, of the Dutch-equivalent of the T.R.T.A., he continues • to represent ancillary users on the presidential executive of the Union.
SIR MONTAGUE HUGHMAN, chairman of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., and its associated concerns, hinted to the 700 present at the company's staff dinner. last Saturday, that he would be resigning the chairmanship before the next annual function, but would remain a director. Sir Montague has had a long and distinguished career, covering 57 years of business life. As far, back as 1895, he was a consulting engineer and since then has travelled extensively, studying British, foreign and colonial administration, and particularly the development of Empire trade.
*32 MR. FRANK E. SALTER, is to return to the 'board of Jowett Cars, Ltd., after a four-year absence, and will be responsible for all 'production. He has lately been with'the Rootes Group.
MR. JOHN McGvine, assistant traffic officer of Nottingham Transport Department, has been appointed traffic superintendent of Warrington Transport Department. He was previously at 'Leeds. Replying to the discussion, Mr_ Lennox-Boyd, Minister of Transport, described the Government's transport policy as "inevitably controversial."
"This Transport Bill," he said, "is not only t,ie fulfilment, and the corn'plete fulfilinent, of our whole election pledge, but a fundamental measure_ to meet our economic crisis through the service which absorbs one-tenth of all our national resources.
" it is not a political problem, but an industrial problem. The Conservative Party did not bring . transport into politics, and it is my hope that I shall play some part in taking transport out of polities."
The real threat to the C-licence holder came from the Socialist Government and certainly not from the Conservative Adm i nistra lion.
Protection for Employees Stressing that employees would be protected—pension rights would be preserved and those who were displaced would be compensated---Mr. LennoxBoyd declared: "1 hone that the time will come when we shall find a large number of men now employed on the roads going into haulage as owners of lorry businesses themselves."
Of the 25-mile limit he had this to say: "I can make it plain that as soon as we have disposed of the bulk of the businesses to be sold as businesses, I will gladly announce the date of what, I hope, will he the permanent lifting of the limit."
Mr. Churchill said at Scarborough, last Sunday, that road transport_ subject to the necessary State supervision, would continue in freedomindefinitely before a Socialist Administration had the power or thought it worth while to disturb it.