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MR. R. G. CROWTHER, of F. Crowther and Son, Ltd., Wakefield, has been elected chairman of the Yorkshire Road-Rail Regional Conference's road panel. He succeeds MR. J. T. RODWELL, of Wombwell. Mr. Crowther has also been elected deputy chairman of the Road Haulage Association's West Riding (Leeds) Area committee.
MR. G. L. SAMUELSON, secretary of the Royal Automobile Club, has been honoured by H.M. the King of Norway, who has conferred upon him the King Haakon VII Liberty Cross in recognition of services rendered during the war, these taking the form of hospitality extended by the R.A.C. to officers in the Norwegian Services stationed in London.
SIGNOR 1. M. PovAN, managing director of La Petrolifera Transportes S.A., Leyland agent in Madrid, has been visiting the works of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
He took the opportunity of giving orders for a number of vehicles of this make, including 10 heavy-duty goods chassis and a similar number of passenger chassis of 19-ft wheelbase, all having left-hand control. During the week-end he toured the Lake District with the company's export manager, MR. D. G. STOKES.
MR. G. F. MANDER who has spent almost the whole of his working life in the designing and building of van bodies, has been appointed technical superintendent of The Wokingham Pantechnicon. He was with H. Markham, Ltd., when, in 1933, the first "Wokingham" made its appearance, and, in consultation with Mr. Alan Perkins, he was responsible for many of the features which have led to its wide acceptance by the removal trade. He will supervise and co-ordinate the production of fourand six-wheeled semi-trailer vans now under construction, or being designed to meet the special requirements of customers, MR. H. L. GINAVEN has been appointed general superintendent of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubbers Co., in which position he succeeds MR. H. A. BRIVIAN, who, after 11 years at Wolverhampton, has returned to America in charge of production at plants in Sweden. Java, and English-speaking countries outside the U.S.A. MR. P. H. SULLIVAN, who was one of the original executives in 1927 in the British factory and organized the entire accounting and operating side, has been transferred to the parent organization in America. He will be succeeded by MR. D. Gow, from the Goodyear branch in Java.
SIR MILES THOMAS, D.F.C., vicechairman of the Nuffield Organisation, covered over 15,000 miles by air and more than 750 miles by road during his recent. three weeks' visit to Rhodesia. In Southern Rhodesia he inspected iron; coal, chrome, asbestos, cotton, and other centres of produc
tion, at the request of its Prime Minister. He then flew to Johannesburg for the Nuffield Organisation, to investigate the trade situation in the Transvaal and Natal, but returned immediately because of the position in Britain. The possibilities of modern travel are shown by the fact that he boarded an aeroplane in Johannesburg at 11 p.m. on a Monday, and had a conference with Lord Nuffield in Oxford at 10.30 a.m. on the following Wednesday. Sir Miles has been appointed Hon. Colonel of the 43rd (Wessex) Inf. Div. R.E.M.E., T.A.
ELECTRIC BEATS MOTORVAN ON NEWSPAPER ROUND SURPRISE was caused when a Brush battery-electric vehicle was given a test run recently by a concern of newspaper distributors in Leicester on a normal early-morning delivery round to newsagents in the district, in competition with the company's fleet of motorvans. The electric vehicle completed a nine-mite round, making 30 stops, in two minutes less time than that usually taken by a motorvan, states the Brush concern.
A display of Brush battery-electric vehicles covering all models and including chassis as well as various units, is to be held by Messrs. James Windsor and Sons, Nottingham Road, Mansfield. The show will open on October 6 and close on October 15.
STREET LIGHTING • MODELS" AT SOUTHPORT
TEN installations with several types of lantern and various lamps with particular light-distribution characteristics, have been erected in seven Southport streets. All this is in connection with the annual conference of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers, which has been taking place there this week.
The demonstration sets are based on the M.O.T. final recommendations for Group A roads. Three have 400-watt mercury discharge lamps, one has 250-watt mercury lamps, three use 140-watt sodium lamps, and a similar number tubular fluorescent types THE PERSONAL TOUCH
LAST week the north-eastern section of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers visited the Manchester works of Small and Parkes, Ltd. Over 30 members were present, and were received by Mr. G. W. Parkes, managing director.
Ile party was shown the numerous processes involved in the manufacture of the material to make brake facings, clutch discs, bearings, etc., and the breaking down of crude asbestos into weavable yarn.
Mr. G. Bowden Parkes, sales director, mentioned that the company, started in 1881, was still a family concern, and that one employee was over 80 years old, several had more than 50 years' service, and over 60 were celebrating 25 years' service, ATTRACTIVE GUY SERVICE BOOK
WELL-ILLUSTRATED service ti manual is now being issued by Guy Motors, Ltd., of Wolverhampton, which deals with the Wolf, Vixen and Otter commercial vehicle chassis.
The manual is well bound to resist workshops handling, and is provided with a quick reference index on the first page, together with a list of recommended lubricants and a lubrication chart on the following page.
Care has been taken to illustrate fully every detail throughout the manual, and to word it in a manner which is comprehensible to any craftsman. It caters for minor adjustments up to complete overhauls, with a full description of special tools required for overhaul. RESUMED APPEAL HEARINGS
THE Appeal Tribunal resumed hearings on Tuesday, in London, and within the next seven weeks will sit also at Edinburgh, Exeter, York and Chester.
This week's appeals. were as follow:— Guest, Wood and Ling, Ltd., Bristol Haulage Co., Ltd., L. H. Dimond and Co., Ltd., Pioneer, Transport, Ltd., and Messrs. Knee Bros., against the decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority (respondent, T. Mileham and Sons, Ltd.); T. Mileham and Sons, Ltd., against the decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority (six respondents); Edward Howard Bradford and .Markjohn Mechanical Spreaders, Ltd., both against the decision of the Southeastern Deputy Licensing Authority (no respondents); P. J. Ayres and Son, Ltd., against the decision of the Southeastern Deputy Licensing Authority (three respondents); Henry Allen Greenfield,' against the decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority (three respondents). • Appeals to be heard at the Scottish Land Court, Edinburgh, on Wednesday next, September 24, at 10.30 a.m., are as follow: The London and Northeastern Railway Co. and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co., both against the decision of the Scottish Licensing Authority (respondent, Beaumont Bros. [Halifax], Ltd.).
ROAD TRANSPORT BRINGS MEALS TO WORKERS
A CATERING department opened .1–/ earlier this year at the service station of J. Stanley Hill, Ltd., 14, Stanley Road, Bradford, not only provides refreshments for car owners and commercial-vehicle drivers, but employs road transport to supply hot meals to industrial establishments which have no large-scale cookery facilities. More than 40 firms in the Bradford district feed their etnployees with meals cooked in the service station's kitchen.
Some 10,000 of these meals, carried in metal containers insulated to keep the food hot, are delivered every month. The company uses two vehicles of its own and employs hired vehicles for the work. To deal with the demand for the services of these mobile canteens, the station kitchen has been considerably enlarged.
. SAFE SCOTTISH P.O.
SOME days ago, Sir Hector M'Neill, Lord Provost of Glasgow, presented major awards of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to Post Office drivers. Senior award for 15 years' accident-free driving went to Mr. Donald Kennedy, with a total of 81,000 miles. Post Office vans in Glasgow travelled 1,571,571 miles in 1946 and had one accident for every 27,000 miles.
CROSSLEYS FOR TWO CORPORATIONS
REPEAT orders have been received by Crossley Motors, Ltd., Errwood Park, Stockport, for double-deck buses from Bolton and Portsmouth Corporations. The former has ordered 50 metalbodied 56-seaters and the latter 25 of the same type. Bolton's post-war fleet of Crossley double-deckers will total 125 on completion of the order.
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