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R. Cull, transport and production director, James Duke and Son Ltd., has been elected national chairman of the Institute of Traffic Administration.
John Marsh, Bury, Lanes, transport superintendent, has been appointed deputy general manager of Oldham, Lanes, transport department.
A. E. Masters, managing director of Petters Ltd., and director of Hawker Siddeley Diesels, has retired on medical advice. W. H. Rees, deputy managing director of Petters Ltd., has been appointed managing director. Mr. Masters was from 1941-59 in charge of the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment of the Ministry of Supply before joining Petters Ltd. G. Carruthers, road safety officer of Advance Linen Services Ltd., and formerly a police driving instructor at Hendon, has been promoted to transport overseer.
A. E. Wild has been re-elected chairman of the PVOA Western area. Vice-chairmen: Miss V. Gunn and F. B. Pulliam.
G. A. Hepworth is relinquishing the managing directorship of Associated Engineering (Sales) Ltd. to take up a new appointment on June 1 as chief executive of the new world-wide Replacement Trade Organization which Associated Engineering Ltd. is forming. For the time being be will remain as chairman of Associated Engineering (Sales) Ltd.
Henry Swain, aged 73, managing director of R. Swain and Sons Ltd., the 20-vehicle Strood (Kent) general haulage firm, has retired from Rochester City Council after 20 years. An alderman, he was Mayor of Rochester in 1955.
Chairman of the Morpeth and North Northumberland sub-area of the RHA is D. Moody. Vice-chairmen: J. Elliott and W. Pri ogle.
Chairman of the Institute of Transport South Wales and Monmouthshire section is Edward Jackson. Vice-chairmen: J. G. Smith, C. M. Elliott, 1, F. Dallison, P. J. Shipp, of Torquay, who recently completed a four-year traffic apprenticeship with Devon General, has been accepted for the twoyear training scheme for higher managerial posts in B.E.T. bus companies and has started with the North Western Road Car Co. Ltd.
OBITUARY
We regret to record the deaths of Mr. Charles Chastney, Mr. Colin Henry Moore and Mr. Harry Platts.
Mr. Chastney, of Cleadon Village, Co. Durham, was a director of C. B. Chastney Ltd., haulage contractors, Whitburn. He was 63.
Mr. Moore, of Violet Cottage, Leire, near Lutterworth, Leics., started a haulage business about four years ago specializing in cattle transporting. He was 35.
Mr. Platts, 70, of Byway Road, Leicester, was for many years a haulage contractor in Leicester and Norwich in association with his brother, Frank Platts.