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LORD JOF1N Hope, M.P., and M. ARTHUR G. DENNIS have been appointed additional directors of B.E.T. Omnibus Services, Ltd.
MR. J. L. LAMI3OURN, of the Product Design Division at Fort Dunlop, has been elected chairman of the Tyre and Wheel Technical Committee of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
MR. HARRY RICKARDS, joint managing director of the old-established concern, Charles Rickards, Ltd., has been appointed director in charge of the commercial-vehicle and car sales. He also controls the well-known motorauction business operated • by the company.
M. F. F. FOWLER has been appointed chairman of the Employers' Panel and leader of the Employers' side of the Road Haulage Central Wages Board, following the resignation of MR. H. T. DUTFIELD, M.Inst.T., who remains a member of the Panel. MR. J. H. MALE has become a vice-chairman, and Ma. RALPH CROPPER. B.A., succeeds MR. G. W. QuICK Smatir, LL.B., as secretary.
MR. A. " SANDY " BRACKEN. 0.B.E.. chief engineer of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., retired just before the August holiday, after 42 years' service. When he joined the company in 1906 its fleet consisted of five Mauds14 buses, with a regulation speed of 12 m.p.h. The present strength of the fleet is 740. Mr. Bracken holds that adoption of the Lothian chassis, designed in 1912 by Mr. (now Sir Witham) Thomson, laid the foundation of the company's success.
MR, W. E. MACVE, M.1NsT.T., chairman of the Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles. and Licensing Authority for Goods Vehicles for the North Western Traffic Area, relinquished this position on July 31, to take up an appointment under the Road Transport Executive. Pending the appointment of a permanent successor. M. J. R. WILLIAMS, M.B.E., is to fill the vacancy. Mr. Williams was formerly Deputy Regional Transport Commissioner or North Wales.
MR. C. CARR, M.S.A.E., M.I.R.T.E., has, largely through the Institute of Road Transport Engineers (of which he is a Council member), been appointed transport foreman with Cia de Petroles Shell de COlombia (the Shell Petroleum Company of Colombia), and will be leaving for South America next month. He was apprenticed with the Halifax Corporation Tramways Department under the late Mr. W. T. Young and Mr. G. F. Craven, O.B.E. He then became assistant engineer with J. W.
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Holdsworth of Halifax. In 1939 he was engineering inspector in the M.T. Division of the Inspectorate of Armaments, later becoming technical assiStant to the Ministry of Supply, C.I.E.M.E. Depot at Chislehurst, In 1944 he was appointed mechanical engineer in charge of vehicle workshops and road transport of the SudanPlantations Syndicate at Barakat. Returning, he became assistant service superintendent with David Brown Tractors, Ltd.
IPSWICH TRAFFIC CENSUS rOMMERCIAL vehicle operators, in
particular, are asked to co-operate in connection with a road-traffic survey which is to be carried out in the vicinity of Ipswich, Suffolk, on trunk roads Al2 and A45, during August 29-31, inclusive, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
This survey is to ascertain the need for the construction of a new by-pass. Vehicles will be stopped and the drivers 'asked where they have come from, where they are going, and whether they will be stopping in Ipswich. Coloured cards will be issued to all drivers, and these will be collected at another point. Upwards of 60,000 cards are expected to be issued in the course of the survey.
DAIMLERS IN DENMARK
ARRANGEMENTS have been made through the Board of Trade for seven Daimler double-deck buses to be sent by operators in this country to Denmark, for temporary duty in carrying visitors to and from the British Exhibition. which will be held in Copenhagen from September 18 to October 3. One bus will be sent by each of the following corporations: Salford, Stalybridge, Nottingham, Doncaster, Bradford, Birmingham and Glasgow.
With the exception of a short sea passage, the .buses will travel to and from Denmark under their own power, the route being via, Belgium, Holland and Germany. TENDERS INVITED FOR OPENCAST COAL TRANSPORT COAL transport pool operators in -.,West and South Yorkshire, who recently submitted proposals to the Ministry of Fuel and Power for taking over certain open-cast coal transport so far handled by the Road Haulage Organization of the Ministry of Trans
port, will be required to submit tenders, along with any other operators who wish to apply for the work. This is indicated by an advertisement which the Ministry has issued in the NorthEastern and other regions.
Applicants must satisfy the Ministry that they ar;.capable of undertaking the work, and they must give a general statement indicating whether they are a company, a pool, or other organization. Details are required as to the number of lorries which can be provided, either owned by the applicant or otherwise availabfe. It is understood that the Yorkshire pools will submit tenders.