CRISIS INTERRUPTS SHOW CONSIDERATION
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T OWARDS the end of July the .I. Commercial Vehicle Committee of the S.M.M.T. considered the Society's Exhibition policy for 1948. It was reported to it that the Council had accepted a recommendation of the Management Committee that sympathetic consideration should be given to the revival of the Motor and Commercial Motor Shows.
It was therefore decided to recommend that the latter should be revived in the 1948-49 season, but with a preference for a time when it would be more attractive to overseas buyers than the customary date.
Incidentally, inquiries had been received from a number of batterytlectric vehicle manufacturers, who were members of the Society, as to the possibility of a group or section being constituted for them, and it was agreed to recon-fmend that a separate section within the Society be approved.
The crisis has, however, intervened, and for the time being all talk concerning the possibility of reviving the Shows appears to have been dropped. The attention of the representative body of the manufacturing side of the industry must for some time ahead be devoted to problems arising from the cancellation of the basic ration combined with a threatened reduction of 10 per cent, in the fuel supply . for several classes of commercial vehicle.
• PERSONAL PARS
MR. C. ASHLEY MILLER, general manager of G. Beaton and Son, Ltd., has been appointed a director of the company in succession to the late MR. GERALD &TORT.
MR. W. H. BINNS has been appointed tyre sales manager of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd. During the war he was Assistant Director of Mechanization and was responsible for the technical development of tyres for the fighting Services.
MR. R. ANTONY BECKETT has been appointed assistant managing director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd. He has held an executive position with the company since 1936, and was appointed to the board in 1941. During the war he served in the Middle East with the R.N.V.R., in which he is a permanent officer, holding the rank of Lieut.-Commander.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the death of M. E. M. P1ZEY. who for the past 18 years represented Pirelli, Ltd., in the sale of tyres in the counties of Leicester,
Northants and Rutland. He was a flying instructor as far back as 1909, and among his pupils were Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir John Alcock, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Steele.
MR. OLIVER HOLDSWORTH, who. with his younger brother, Aid. Charles Holdsworth, had .an important share in the development of mechanical road haulage from its earliest days, primarily through T. W. Holdsworth, Ltd., Hall
fax, and ultimately through a chain of associated companies extending all over ,the country, died last Sunday. Mr. Oliver Holdsworth also partnered his brother in road passenger transport enterprises, notably in the foundation of Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., which they started in 1924 and eventually sold. He was 69 years old. BRUSH BUILDS ELECTRIC UTILITY IMMEDIATELY the Government an1 flounced the proposal to abolish the basic petrol_ ration, Brush Coachwork, Ltd., Loughborough, produced a prototype electric utility. The model, based on the 25-30-cwt. chassis, has bucket seats for 11 adults, apart from the driver, and ample room at the rear for luggage. Alternatively, about 20 small children would be chrried if the vehicle were usea as a school bus.
Smaller models are being built on the 10-14-cwt. and l8-22-cwt. chassis.
According to Brush Coachwork, Ltd., the 25-30-cwt. model has a range of 40 miles on one charge.
An exhibition of representative types of Brush electric vehicle will be held from October 6-11 by the Woodcote Motor Co., Ltd., Epsom. The show will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.