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G. E. Liardet, chairman of Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation, was installed last week as president of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. He succeeds Sir William Swallow, to whom he presented an inscribed cigarette box on behalf of the council and members in recognition of his services as president.
A record number of nominations and an exceptionally high ballot for membership of the IRTE council resulted in the following being elected to the council: Ordinary members: J. D. Lewis, J. A. C. Williams, W. V. Batstone, J. F. Wood, R. D. Owen. L. G. Reed, K. P. Wakefield, and E. J. Peacock. Associate members: C. H. Carter, R. W. Ladbrooke, R. J. Dilnot, M. J. D. Pye and A. J. Valentine.
No IRTE annual £25 award has been made this year. but centre awards of £5 and a diploma have gone to W. V. Batstone, A. J. Bryant and J. A. C. Williams.
Stephen Swingler, 53. Minister of State, Ministry of Transport, becomes Minister of State. Department of Health and Social Security, with effect from November 1. Mr. Swingler has been at the MoT for four years. His new post, at £5,625, carries the same salary. He will not be replaced at the MoT.
Raymond G. Webster, director and chief designer of Edbro Ltd., is visiting North American stockists and users of Edbro hydraulic tipping gears for commercial vehicles, returning to the UK on Wednesday.
A. Gurley, has been appointed chief engineer of Hants and Dorset Motor Services Ltd, and Wilts and Dorset Motor Services Ltd. in succession:to the late Mr. Henderson. Mr. Gurley, at present chief engineer of Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd., takes up his new appointment on December 1.
James Forster, manager of Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., Gateshead, is retiring at the end of the year, and will be succeeded by L. S. Higgins, general manager of Oxford Motor Services Ltd. Mr. Higgins was formerly Northern traffic manager.
Alexander Boswell, Scottish representative of Road Services ICaledonianl Ltd. and for 20 years manager at Lockerbie, has retired. At a dinner to mark his retirement, Thomas Atkin, managing director, presented him with a wallet of notes on behalf of the management. Mr. Boswell's colleagues presented him with a Ford Zephyr car.
We record with regret the deaths of Thomas Andrew Barton, Harvey C. Fruehauf, Charles Edward Geary and Cyril Kirkland.
Mr. Barton. 80, chairman and managing director of Barton Transport Ltd. of Chilwell, Notts, died in hospital last week. Mr. Barton founded the family transport firm in 1908 with his father. It is now one of the largest independent transport companies in Britain with a fleet of more than 350 buses throughout the East Midlands. During the First World War Mr. Barton was connected with the development of the system of using coal gas to power buses and cars. The system was used again in the Second World War. He also helped to develop the first six-wheeler bus in Britain.
Mr. Fruehauf. 74, one of four sons of August Fruehauf who founded Fruehauf Trailer Co. in 1916, died in Detroit last week. From the 1920s until 1949 Mr. Fruehauf served as the company's president, becoming chairman of the board in 1949 and resigning in 1953, after a dis-pute with his brother Roy who succeeded him.
Mr. Geary, 47, transport manager at the Nuneaton depot of the Barwell ILeics) firm of W. Woodward Ltd., died in hospital. He was the first of the company's drivers to work on the Continental service.
Mr. Kirkland, 54, manager for many years of the depots of British Road Services in Barnsley Road, Doncaster, and North Bridge, Doncaster, died in hospital.