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The Minister of Transport has appointed Mr. D. E. O'Neill to be his private secretary in place of Mr. Aubrey Clark, who has been promoted.
Mr. G. L. Dingwall, traffic manager of the Blyth Co-operative Society, has been appointed to a similar position with the Nuneaton Co-operative Society, He was elected to Blyth Town Council fast November. • We learn that Mr. W. H. Brown, who is well-known as a director of Duple Bodies and Motors, Ltd., the prominent coachbuilding concern, is :•,hortly leaving for a business trip to the west coast of Africa. The company has a considerable export business, and Mr. Brown's previous visits to different parts of the world have always resulted in orders for various types of body. .
By reason of the demand for the Leyland oil engine and torque converter in South Africa. Mr. A. H. Travis, M.Sc. (Tech.), the assistant research engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is shortly leaving for that country, so that his knowledge may be placed at the disposal of road-transport operators throughout the Union, Mr. Travis has been in sole charge of the company's research department during Mr. Markland's absence in Australia and New Zealand, and he has been in close touch with oil-engine and torque-converter developments that have taken place.
Mr. Walter Jowett, manager and secretary of the Jowett Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Bradford, has been elected chairman of the Bradford Section of the Motor Agents Association.
Mr. H. Cundall, of the Thornton Engineering Co., Ltd., Bradford, has been elected vice-chairman, and Mr. Rupert Lindley has been re-elected hon. secretary, an office which he has held for many years.
A Maintenance Engineer Available.
We know of an experienced engineer, who was 5 Mech. Staff Sergeant in the M.T. during the war, and, later, became works manager to a motor and general-engineering concern in Leeds, then works 'manager at an important motor company, where he produced a successful commercial chassis. He has an excellent knowledge of factory organization, but would be willing to take a position as engineer in control of a large fleet. Letters addressed "Maintenance Engineer," care of the Editor, will be forwarded..
G.W.R. Road-transport Progress in
1934.
In a survey of the progress made by its road-transport department during the past year, the Great Western Railway Co. reports that an order valued• at over 2150,000, for about 350 motor vehicles, some of which will be equipped with trailers, was placed. About 100 of the vehicles will replace old motor stock, but a large number is required to deal with further road-transport work.
Another outlet for the new stock is in the substitution of motor vehicles for horses. Up to the present, the practice of re
placing horses by motors has been followed as the occasion appeared to justify, but now a policy of completely motorizing certain stations has been entered upon, and over 100 vehicles will be devoted to this purpose.
The use of containers continues to. grow, the number of loaded journeys for 1931 being 21 per cent. above the 1933 figure. Two new types of container for special traffic have recently been introduced; the total now in service by the Great Western Railway is 1,649.
M.C.W. Bodies For Cape Town's Trolleybuses.
In our issue dated January 4, we published a paragraph intimating that Cape Town Electric Tramways had ordered 50 Ransome trolleybus chassis. We now learn that all-metal bodies for these vehicles will be built by Metropolitan Cammell Weymann Motor Bodies, Ltd., 30 of them being 62-seater double-deckers and the others .39-seater single-deckers.
The offices of the Institute of the Motor Trade have been removed to 201, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.