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The HON. Bo KIN MALIN°, Burmese Minister of Industry, last week visited Leyland Motors, 1,td.
MR. CLIVE CORDER, MR. A. M. ROSHOLT and MR. G. A. Cuagy have been appointed directors of Oldham and Son (Africa), Ltd.
MR. W. Scoirr, national sales account's manager for James Aitchison and Co. (Tyres), Ltd., Edinburgh, has been appointed sales manager.
MR. HENRY KEY has been appointed secretary of the Institute of Public Cleansing, in successiOn to MR. K. WYNDHAM BROWN. He will take up his duties in June.
MR. E. GERALD BROADBENT has joined the staff of Bowyer Bros. (Congleton), Ltd., as designer and technical advisor. He was formerly with S. Jackson, Ltd.. Sandbach, and Commer Cars, Ltd.
MR. R. J. HOLCOMBE has succeeded MR. C. N. GRADDON as chairman of the London Division of the Industrial Transport Association. MR. R. FL Krrsost and MR. C. H. TURNER have been elected vice-chairmen.
MR. HAROLD S. WEALE, production director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd:, is leading a team of five of the company's production experts on a tour of German and French motor manufacturers. The party is due back next Wednesday.
MR. N. D. H. SMITH has succeeded the late MR. W. HOSKIN as Lancaster district traffic superintendent of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. Smith was previously assistant district traffic superintendent of the Norwich depot of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.
CLLR. J. T. WHITTLE has been elected chairman of the Road Passenger and Transport Association, with MR. HARRY HOLMES as vice-chairman. The management council comprises MR. W. J. LLOYD, MR. W. HAYES. CLLR. W. H. AUSTIN. MR. E. L. TURNER, MR. W. A. NOAKES. MR. E. A. WEBB and MR. W. G. SMITH.
MR. G. H. GARDNER has been elected chairman of Gloucester Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, with MR. R. L. DANCE and MR. R. G. JACKSON as vice-chairmen, and MR. D. B. EVANS as honorary secretary. Dorset and West Hants Sub-area have elected Ma. L. W. FRAMPTON as chairman and Ma. P. J. KERI.E. as vice-chairman.
MR. W. A. STANDIE.Y was last week elected chairman of the Birmingham area of the Traders' Road Transport Associatitm, with MR. J. C. H. ASTON, MR. J. A. EDMONDS and MR. G. MORGAN as vicechairmen. MR. F. AssitsmEa is honorary secretary. The Wolverhampton area elected MR. E. A. BErrELEv as their chairman and MR. A. SMART, MR. K. H. Wionowsox and MR. E. CARTER as vicechairmen. MR. D. TAYLOR is honorary secretary.
B i MR. E. TROTTER, transport manager of A. Rcyrolle and Co., Ltd.. has been elected chairman of the Tyneside area of the Industrial Transport Association.
MR. A. F. JOHNSON, transport manager of Swindon Co-operative Society, has retired after 31 years' service. His successor is MR. J. E. GILL, who has been assistant manager and engineer since 1956.
MAJ.-GEN. G. N. RUSSELL, general manager of British Road Services, has been elected president of the Institute of Transport for 1958-59 and will take office on October I. He became a member of the council in 1953 and has been a vicepresident since 1955.
MR. R. J. HANDOVER has become a director of 1.T.D., Ltd., and All-WheelDrive, Ltd. He has taken the position of alternate director to MR. WALTER SCHIRMER. vice-president of Clark Equipment International. C.A., Buchanan, Michigan, U.S.A., who have interests in both 1.T.D. and All-Wheel-Drive.
Mr. H. C. CHANDLER has been elected chairman of the Eastern area of the Traders Road Transport Association. The three vice-chairmen, MR. H. J. CAVANAGH, MR. H. H. HILL and MR. B. H. HIRST, 'also serve for another year. Cor. E. G. DUFFIELD has succeeded MR. H. D. Srattsmerr as chairman of the Portsmouth and District area.
FIRE APPLIANCE SAVES 17,000
A•COMB1NED water and foam tender with pump escape has been supplied to Bristol Fire Brigade by Welch and Co.. Ltd.. Bristol, at a cost of £5,000. The Oldland body is based on a Bedford chassis and has scratch-proof aluminium sides. The vehicle weighs over 7 tons and is capable of 60 m.p.h.
It is considered that £7,000 has been saved by the versatility of the design, which has obviated the need to employ several vehicles each built to fulfil one function.
Vigorous Action Over C-hire Promised
VIGOROUS action to safeguard the interests of hauliers against 'the menace" of C-hiring was promised, last week, by Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority. He said it was obvious that for some time a number of people, including hauliers and farmers, had been operating vehicles in contravention of the Road and Rail Traffic Act. under the guise of C-hiring.
"It has been difficult for my officers to put evidence of the right type before the Crown prosecutors to enable proceedings to be taken," he said. "That difficulty has now been surmounted, and recently a number of successful prosecutions have resulted in heavy fines—and more will follow."
Mr. Robertson told The Commercial Motor that where an operator voluntarily ceased C-hiring he would nortnally be agreeable to the issue of a short-term B licence until an A or B-licence application could be heard. However, the fact that short-term licences were issued did not mean that full licences would automatically follow. Each case would be decided on its merits.
Mr. Robertson added: "My offer to issue short-term licences cannot be kept open indefinitely, so it would be in the interests of all concerned to give up Chiring immediately. Sooner or later they will be caught, and I must take vigorous action to safeguard the interests of hauliers, for whom C-hiring is merely a menace to their existence."
NEW TESTS FOR BEDFORD ENGINES
.1-1 A NEW electric dynamometer test bed
has been installed by the English Electric Co., Ltd., Stafford, in the Dunstable factory of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. It is to be used for the production testing of Bedford oil and petrol engines, engines being periodically selected at random.
The dynamometer is a D.C. machine which is coupled directly to the engine on test. It is capable of absorbing 150 b.h.p. continuously at any speed over the range of 2,500-6,000 r.p.m., with a onehour rating of 175 b.h.p. The outlet of the test-bed motor is recovered and fed back into the works A.C. supply by an induction generator. Heenan and Froude instruments, controls, fuel-metering cabinet and engine supports are employed.
SIMMS SERVICING ORGANIZED IN SWEDEN RRANGEMENTS have been com pleted between Simms Motor Units. Ltd., and Electro Diesel, of Kiruna. Sweden, for servicing Simms fuel-injection and electrical equipment in the northern territories of Sweden. Kiruna is more than 100 miles inside the Arctic Circle and only 1,500 miles from the North Pole. Additional service representation has also been arranged in Malmo and Uppsala. The latter is the academic centre.