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MR. 5. F. FUME, we are informed, will be terminating his connection with Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., Acton Lane, London, NAVA°, at the end of the month. All communications shoull now be addressed direct to the company.
MR. M. M. COLLINGS, whose portrait appears on this page, has, for many years, been a sales representative for Fodens, Ltd., Elworth Works, Sandbach, Cheshire. We are informed by the company that he has now taken up residence at 26, Lovelace Road, Surbiton, Surrey. The telephone number is Elreibridge 4238.
MR. P. S. WOODHOUSE, secretary of the South-Eastern Area, A.R.O., has relinquished his temporary secretary= ship of the National Conference of Road Transport Groups. He is succeeded in this capacity by Mr. J. Gerga.rd; secretary of the Bolton Transport and Trading Co., Ltd. His address is 6, t3owkers Row, Bolton, Lancs.
MR. R. S. GOOD, A.M.I.E.E., divisional engineer (electrical) trams, and trolleybuses to the London Transport Board, has retired after over 44 years' continuous associalion with passenger transport. After extensive 'experience with the British Thomson-Houston Company from 1899, he joined the L.C.C. Tramways in 1903. In 1933, when London Transport was,. established, the area supervised by Mr. Good was more than doubled, and in ensuing years over 100 route miles of tramway were converted to trolleybus operation. During the war one of his responsibilities has been the repair of overhead equipment and cables damaged by enemy action. This work was carried out so efficiently that there was little delay to services, and it was often performed while the raids were in progress. MR. F. A. WINGROVE and MR. W. Holmes, M.C., have been appointed to the board of Wingrove and Rogers, Ltd., Broadway Court,. Broadway, London, SAVA. Mr. Wingrove has had long service with the company as buyer and as manager of its B.E.V. electric industrial truck and storage battery locomotive department. Mt. Holmes has, for many years, been on the radio side of the business, and is well known in connection with the sale of Polar condensers.
MR. F. H. KIDD has been appointed 'chief engineer to the Western Welsh Company, as from Obtober 9. He has been assistant engineer to the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., and its associate, the Southern National Company, since 1939. Earlier appointments were assistant engineer to the NorthWestern Road Car Co., Ltd., 19211937; and assistant to the joint general manager East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., 1928-1931, We wish Mr. Kidd every success in his uew position.
MR, D. L. CLARKE, 0.B.E., .M.INsr.T., chairman of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, has tendered his resignation on the grounds of ill-health. This has been accepted with the greatest regret by the Minister of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland Mr. Clarke was admitted a solicitor in 1910, and was appointed a Local Government auditor in 1914. On the partition of Ireland, he transferred to the Northern Ireland Civil Service, where his capacity • for administration marked him out for rapid promotion. Intimate association with all questions affecting road transport placed him in a unique position, and when the Road and Railway Transport Act, 1935, was passed, he was the natural choice of the Minister as chairman of the Board set up under this Act. He personally controlled the settlement of all the compensation cases, numbering over 1,150, and amounting to £3,046,000.