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OPERATING COMPANIES.
' Mr. Sidney E. Garcke, M.I.M.E., M.Inst.T., is a member of the council of the British Electrical Federation, Ltd., vicepresident of the Institute of Transport, a director of many transport .companies, including the British Electric Traction • Co., Ltd., and chairman of Tilling and British Automobile Traction, Ltd. He is also a candidate for Parliament.
Mr. L. G. Wyndham Shire, IVLI.A.E., A.C.G.L, is well known as the enterprising chief engineer of the Birmingham and Midland Motor -Omnibus Co., Ltd., in which capacity he is responsible for one of the largest bus fleets in the country. We have often solieited Mr. Shire's assistance, and have been treated with unfailing courtesy.
Mr. George Henning, J.P., is one of the hest-known personalities in the motor trade. He is the head of F. Kenning and Sons, 'of Clay Cross, Derbyshire, also a director of several other companies engaged in the industry and managing director of the International Taxicab Co., Ltd., a new company which has been formed to act as sole world distributor for the new Morris International taxi.
Mr. W. E. Cownie is managing director of the National Electric Construction Co., Ltd., whieh he joined as secretary in 1899. He has very wide interests, being also managing director of a large number of important companies, including the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd.
Mr. G. C. Campbell Taylor, MLLE., A.M.Inst.T., has been general manager of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for the past six years. Previous to this he was for six years with the Daimler Co., being connected with the running of buses on its behalf in Vienna. His first association with the bus industry was in connection with Milnes-Daimler vehicles some 22 years ago, We remember him personally as a very ." live " early member of the graduates section of the Institution of Automobile Engineers.
, Mr. G. E. Chirgwin is a pioneer of the sleeper-coach, being managing director of Albatross Roadways, Ltd., the .concern which ran the first vehicle of this type between London and Liverpool.
Major H. E. Hickmott, M.InsteT., prior to entering the transport industry was for a number of years with Vickers, Ltd. Two or three years before the war, however, in conjunction with the ,late Mr. Flaxman French, Senr„ he formed the Londonand ,South Coast Haulage Co., which was one of those amalgamated to form the Southdown Motor Services. Earlyin 1019. he floated the Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and was appointed managing director of the company, which position he still holds.
Mr. G. Cardwell, who is general manager of the North Western Road Car Co. Ltd., was premiuni pupil at the works of the Brush. Eleetrical •Engineering Co., Ltd., but, later, be.catiee=general-rnanager'-of the following companies in succession :—Hartlepool -Electric Tramways Co., Ltd. ; Devonport and District Tramways Co., Ltd.; Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd. After war service he joined the Macclesfield branch of the British Automobile Traction Co., Ltd., which was formed into his present company.
Mr. Walter J. Iden, M.I.A.E., is managing director of the National Omnibus and Teansport Co., Ltd., which owns some 750 buses. Mr. Idea served his apprenticeship in the locomotive department of the Southern Railway, and entered the motor industry 29 years ago. The principal positions which have been held by him are: Manager, motor department, Crossley Bros.,Ltd. ; chief engineer to the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd.; and general manager to the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., where, in 1910, he brought out the L.G.O. B-type bus.. He is also a director of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd.
Mr. George Chapman is the founder and managing director of that old-established coaching concern, Chapman and Sens, Eastbourne, Ltd. He was a pioneer of coaching tours both in Great Britain and on the Continent. Before the days of motors he ran a four-horsed coach, "The Vigilant," between Eastbourne and Brighton and between London and Brighton, averaging 11 m.p.h.
Mr. W. W. Graham, who is general manager and director of the Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., is a past president of the Bournemouth Chamber of Trade. His company operates bus services in Hampshire. Dorset and Wilts., covering some 460 miles of routes with 132 buses.
.MUNICIPALITIES. •
Mr. Ronald A. Fearnley, A.M.Inst.M. and
Cy.E., who is the general manager and chief engineer of the Keighley Corporation Tramways, has been responsible for considerable extensions in the use of motorbuses and trolley-buses in Keighley. In the past 31 years the route mileage on which such vehicles run has increased from 35 to 50, and the fleet of buses has grown from 21 to 32.
Mr. R. Stuart Filcher, F.B.S.E., .M.Inst.T., is the general manager of the Manchester Corporation Tramways.. He was assistant electrical engineer to the Birkenhead Corporation Tramways from 1904 to 1906, subsequently being appointed, at the age of 22, as traffic manager to the Burton Corporation Tramways. Two years later lie becanie general manager of the Aberdeen Corporation Tramways—a post which he occupied for 12 years. In 1918 Mr. Filcher was appointed to Edinburgh, the municipal authorities in which city now have a large fleet of buses in service. Apart from many other interests, Mr Filcher is secretary to the Scottish section of the Institute of Transport.
Mr. P. .Priestly, M.Inst.A.E., M.Inst.T., the general manager of the Liverpool Corporation Tramways, was responsible for the layout of the new tramway and busbnilding and repair works recently opened by the Minister of Transport at Edge Lune, Liverpool.
Mr. H. Pool, M.Inst.T., who is the general manager of the tramways and motor omnibus department at Leicester, has been connected with municipal tramways and electricity departments during the whole of his career. He has been acting as general manager of the Leicester passenger transport undertakingsince January, 1928, and, being a Leicester man, is particularly familiar with local transport needs.
Mr. John H. Parker, M.I.E.E., the general manager and engineer of the West Hartlepool Corporation transport service, served • his apprenticeship with Messrs. Alley and • McLellan, of Glasgow. Prom 1915 to •1025 he was deputy engineer to the county borough at Croydon. In the latter year he was appointed borough electrical engineer to the West Hartlepool Corporation, a year later taking over the duties of tramways manager in this centre. During the winter of 1926-7 he was responsible for the complete replacement of the tramcars by trolley-buses.
Mr. W. G. Marks, M.Inst.T., is the general manager of the Nottingham Corporation Tramways, having recently been appointed to this position. He was previously at Chesterfield, where he Was responsible for the institution of trolley-bus services, these having proved very popular and resulted in a 331 per cent, increase in the number of passengers carried.
Mr. George Rock recently took up the position of general manager to the Lincoln Corporation Transport Department. Ile was previously general manager and engineer of the West Monmouthshire Omnibus Board. Prior to that ho was transport superintendent to the Reading Corporation. Tramways and had previously held engagements with the Scottish Motor Traction, Ltd., Edinburgh, Harrier Motors, Ltd., Huddersfield and John I. Thornyeroft and' Co., Ltd. He is a Londoner by birth.
Mr. A. C. Baker, A,M.I.E.E., M.Inst.T., is the geueral manager of the Birmingham Corporation Tramway and Omnibus Department, and some idea of the importance of the position which he occupies can be gathered from the fact that. the municipal authority is operating a fleet of close upon 300 buses, a proportion of them being trolley-buses.
Mr. John Barnard, is the general manager of the Bolton Corporation Tramways. He entered the service of this department in 1900 and five years later was appointed traffic manager ; ho occupied this position until 1913, when lie was made general manager, Mr. William Forbes has recently been appointed the
• general manager of the Cardiff Corporation passenger transport services, having relinquished a similar post at Aberdeen to come south. In 1909 he was appointed principal aasistent to Mr. R. Stuart Filcher, who was then at Aberdeen, and when Mr. Filcher transferred his activities to Edinburgh Mr. Forbes was appointed general manager. At that time the Aberdeen Corporation was not operating meter' buses, but In 1920 Mr. Forbes was responsible for the inauguration of the first service with vehicles of this kind.