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MR. W. JONES has been appointed regional manager, Eastern Region, Raybestos-Belaco, Ltd., Southwark Street, London, S.E.1.
MR. SYDNEY OXON is to retire from the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company's sales organization at the end of December. He has been with Goodyear for more than 40 years.
MR. WILLIAM THOMAS JAMES has resigned from the Board of the Erritish Electric Traction Co., Ltd., in view of his impending retirement. MR. PAUL ADORIAN is to be a member of the Board to fill the resulting vacancy.
MR. ROY M. WILSON, Q.C., has been appointed president of the Industrial Court in succession to Lord Forster, who retires at the end of the year. Mr. Wilson is already a member of the chairmen's panel of the Industrial Court.
Mr. R. B. LANG, of the Ministry of Transport, has taken over a new post, at Under Secretary level, of Director of Lands and Contracts. He has been succeeded as Under Secretary (Finance) by Mr. H. W. CAUTHERY, who has been transferred from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
MR. F. A. WHITE, 58, has been appointed principal executive assistant in the traffic superintendent's office, department of the operating manager (Central Road Services), London Transport. He has also been appointed to represent London Transport on the London and Home Counties Stopping Places Advisory Committee.
MR. J. H. GIFFIN, Superintendent (Running), Central Road Services, London Transport, is to retire on December 31. Mr. Giffin, who is 65, was appointed to the newly created post of Superintendent (Running) in March, 1957, to co-ordinate and develop measures for improved regularity of bus running in the Centrar Road Services area.
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MR. W. A. STANDLEY is retiring from Chance Brothers, Ltd., Smethwick, whom he has served for 51 years, 38 years as traffic manager.
MR. J. P. KENNEDY, assistant engineer of the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., since 1952, is to move to Cumberland as chief engineer with Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd.
MR. G. E. HARRIS, for many years in charge of export sales and a director since 1957, has, for personal reasons, resigned from the Board of Guy Motors, Ltd., and from the Boards of the company's overseas subsidiaries, MR. B. H. RocxmAta has been appointed a member of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the London area as a representative for labour, succeeding Mr. H. Solomons, who has resigned for health reasons.
MR. M. 1. PRICHARD, managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, has resigned from the board of MasseyFerguson (United Kingdom), Ltd., to which he was appointed soon after the Peterborough company was taken over by Massey-Ferguson in April last year.
MR. BRYAN DUTFIELD, sales director, and MR. PETER Cox, sales manager, Rawlings Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Balham, S.W.12, leave London early in the New Year for a tour covering all of Africa. On their return they will tour Holland, Italy, Portugal, France and Scandinavia.
MR, D. N. HARPER has been elected chairman of King and Harper, Ltd., Cambridge, following the death of his father, MR. B. H. HARPER, the firm's co-founder. MR. F. A. PEDLEY retains his position as managing director and secretary, and MR. E. R. M. WELLS joins Mr. A. M. WELLS and MR. B. PEDLEY on the board. MR. BUDAYU KOGURE has been appointed Japanese Minister of Transport in succession to MR. Yositio MINAMI.
MR. E. T. CROKER, Gloucester district manager, British Road Services, has been appointed divisional traffic officer, Western Division, in succession to the late Mr. P. W. Lewis.
MR. A. BuRRows, general manager, Lancaster City Transport, has been appointed general manager, Barrow-inFurness Corporation from April 1, 1961. On the short list, in addition to Mr. Burrows, were Mr. W. K. Haigh, deputy general manager, Sunderland, Mr. F. Mantle, deputy general manager, Stockton-on-Tees, Mr. J. P. Proctor, deputy general manager, Rochdale, and Mr. L. T. Quinn, traffic superintendent. Barrow-in-Fu mess.
Obituary
WE record with deep regret the deaths 19, of MR. NORMAN HAYNES, MIL E. BAINBRLDGE, MR. SIDNEY W. COOPER and MR. R. M. DAVIS.
Mr. Haynes, who was 56, had been a sales representative with Martin Walter, Ltd., Folkestone, for seven years.
Mr. Bainbridge, head of T. Bainbridge and Son, garage proprietors and haulage contractors, Wallsend, was 61. He had been in the haulage industry for 35 years.
Mr. Cooper, proprietor of the furniture removal firm of Cooper's Removals of Leicester, died at the wheel of his car. He was 55.
Mr. " Reg " Davis was advertising manager of The India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He joined the company in 1929 as an assistant in the Printing and Direct Mail Department.
Delays Could Raise Rates
DELAYS at docks, customers' premises, and collieries were described as an "urgent and vital issue affecting all sections of road transport" by Mr. G. W. Mousley., a director of Mortons (Coventry), Ltd., at the dinner-dance of the Coventry, Rugby and North Warwickshire sub areas of the R.H.A. last Friday.
"The road haulage operator was moving a lesser tonnage per vehicle than ever before because of the delays, despite the increased productivity of the country," said Mr. Mousley. He appealed to trade and industry and all users of transport and their associations, for closer co-ordination as the means of solving the problem. ' Unless it could be solved a further rates increase was inevitable.
ALBIONS FOR ICELAND
A NOTHER five Albion Chieftain 7-tonners have been ordered by the Albion agents in Iceland, Kaupfelag Arnesinga, Selfoss. The vehicles will have left-hand drive and vacuum-operated windscreen wipers, these being considered better able to move heavy snow deposits than normal electric equipment.