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William B. Larson, James R. Hebden and Donald C. Lowe have been elected to the board of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. Born in Detroit in 1931, Mr Larson joined General Motors as a graduate-trainee, and from June 1970 was programme manager of the experimental safety vehicle group of GM's environmental activities staff. Mr Hebden, from Ontario, joined General Motors in 1950 and left the position of comptroller of the Delco Moraine division to become Vauxhall's chief engineer. Mr Lowe's appointment as director of manufacturing in succession to Leonard F. Coyle, who has returned to the United States to take a new post with General Motors, was previously announced. Ralph May, 65, who joined Vauxhall in 1928, for the past two years director of international procurement planning, relinquishes his directorship and retires as from on January 31.
A. P. Mansfield, Hargreaves Transport Ltd, has been elected a vice-chairman of the Road Haulage Association's bulk liquids functional group. Mr Mansfield replaces C. S. Clarke who resigned from the committee upon his transfer to Powell Duffryn Oil and Chemical Storage Company from Tyburn Road Tank Services Ltd. Tyburn Road Tank Services Ltd is part of the Powell Duffryn Group.
B ruce MacCormack, 34, UK sales manager for Hertz, will on February 1 become general manager of the contract hire division of Wincanton Transport Ltd, based, at Cumberland Avenue, Park Royal. On the same day Norman Shurrock, 38, of BRS (Contracts) Ltd, will become Wincanton's contract hire sales manager.
B rian Morgan has relinquished the position of chairman of Enots Ltd. of Lichfield, a subsidiary of Imperial Metal Industries Ltd. He will continue as managing director. J. R. lbbs has been appointed executive chairman of the company. Since 1969 Mr Hobs has been manager of IMI's company planning department, a position he retains. Rod Hulme, 43, joint managing director of Strachans (Coachbuilders) Ltd, has been appointed a director of the parent company Rodsley Motor Industries Ltd. The group headed by Rodsley has now been reorganized into three main divisions — truck, car, and manufacturing — and Mr Hulme has also been appointed head of the management board of the manufacturing company. The board of Strachans remains unchanged, where Mr Hulme holds the position of joint managing director with P. Melte. Mr Hulme joined Strachans in 1964.
Brian Elderkin has joined Transport International Pool Ltd, as operations manager at its depot at Bilston Lane, Willenhall. Staffs. Mr Elderkin was previously employed as a transport manager by C. J. B. (Pipelines) Ltd, and John Laing Construction Ltd and worked for them in the Middle and Far East, the United States, and other parts of the world.
G. Lowis, a driver employed by S. & G. Furniture (Scotland) Ltd, Cambuslang, has been awarded the FTA prize for his performance in the recent Road Transport Examinations of the Royal Society of Arts.
P. C. Hunt, general manager of the Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd, is to succeed D. W. Morison general manager of the Hants and Dorset and of the Wilts and Dorset Companies. After training with Midland Red under the BET Scheme, Mr Hunt joined Southdown Motor Services Ltd. He became traffic manager of the Potteries Motor Traction Co Ltd in 1964, taking up his present position with Yorkshire Traction in 1968.
Edward Hazzlewood, 37, United Carriers training officer has announced that an 80 per cent pass rate is now being achieved at the company's driver training centre at the United Carriers Yorkshire divisional depot at Gildersome near Leeds. Customers and suppliers' drivers are accepted on any of the courses.
• It is regretted that in our November 5 1971 issue a caption referring to the presentation, by Mr Peter Walker. of a BEM medal to Mr C. A. Crane, retired chief inspector, Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd, was accompanied by an illustration that did not depict the ceremony. We offer our apologies to the gentlemen concerned.
G. R. Cook lElddis Transport Consett Ltd) has been elected chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne area of the Transport Managers' Club. J. R. Johnson Moults Ltd) is treasurer, and J. T. Sharkey IMonarch Transport Newcastle Ltd) secretary.
P. J. Powis (A. Lilley and Co Ltd) has been elected chairman of the Northampton sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. D. Knight (Knights of the Road Ltd) is vice-chairman. and R. M. Eales secretary.
Other RHA sub-area elections: S. Derbyshire and Burton on Trent chairman J. 0. Lathbury (Central Coal and Coke and Brick Co Ltd); vicechairman D. M. Shiken; secretary G. F. Burt (M.
H. Food Distribution Ltd); Nottingham chairman G. Simms; vice-chairmen C. C. Wheater (C. Wheater and Sons Ltd), G. Samuel (Midland Storage Tpt Services) Ltd, H. Tatler (Tatler Brothers Ltd): secretary J. E. Chetdel..1. E. Chettle Ltd);
Newark Chairman G. Bird; vice-chairmen A. Dickens Q. R. Marriott (Collingham) Ltd,) J. B. Hempsall (Hempsall and Sons (Contracts) Ltd); secretary F. G. Garrood IF. G. Garrood Transport Ltd).
OBITUARIES
We record with regret the deaths of Joseph Booth and Haydn Henley Higginson.
Mr Booth was a coal haulier who at the end of the First World War moved into passenger transport, becoming a joint founder of Booth and Fisher Motor Services, of Killamarsh, Derbyshire. He was 82.
Mr Higginson, joined Spurlings in 1930, was managing director when Spurlings became part of the Bristol Street Group in 1966: he then joined the board of the Bristol Street Group and became chairman of Spurlings. He held both of those appointments until reaching retirement age in 1970 when he became the Group's first president.