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Mr. J. W. Morley, secretary to Lan.. cashire United Transport, Ltd., has been made a director of that company.
Mr. W. M. Powell has been appointed assistant advertising manager of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.
Mr. J. F. B. Cornwell has been appointed principal costs assistant (general), London Transport, with the rank of principal executive assistant.
Mr. W. Davis (London and the South of England) and Mr. H. flumpston (Midlands) have been appointed representatives by A. P. Newall and Co., Ltd., Woodside Engineering Works, Glasgow.
Mr. P. B. Ongley has been appointed siDerintendent (running) in the department of the operating manager (central road services), London Transport, with the grade of principal executive assistant.
Mr. Leslie Graham, general manager of the Venture Bus Co., Consett, Co. Durham, has been presented with a longservice award by the firm. He started with the company 35 years ago as a bus sweeper.
The Earl of Limerick retires tomorrow from the board of Mutual Finance, Ltd., a subsidiary of Mercantile Credit Co., Ltd. Lord Limerick joined the board in 1942 and has been chairman since 1945. Mr. Percy Livsey will relinquish the 'position of managing director and succeed Lord Limerick as chairman. Mr. W. A. Lovell is to be appointed general manager.
Mr. H. Ardern, director of public cleansing. Westminster -City Council, has retired after 40 years in Local Government service. Mr. Ardern has twice been president of the Institute of Public Cleansing and has for many years been a member of its council. He was a leading member of the Electric Vehicle Committee of Great Britain which fostered electric vehicle development before the formation of the Electric Vehicle Association 28 years ago. The fleet of 25 clectrics used by Mr. Ardern for public cleansing work is now some 24 years old. Mr. H. J. Camplin this week relinquished his position as a director of Albion Motors, Ltd., after 51 years' service with the company.
Mr. F. A. Mason, at present assistant general manager and chief engineer of Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been appointed general manager of The Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., in succession to Mr. I. L. Cray, who, as previously announced, has been appointed general manager of Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd. Mr, Mason joined Western Welsh in 1949, as chief engineer, and immediately prior to this he held the appointment of chief engineer of The City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. Mason will take up his new duties on January 1, 1962.
Obituary
WIE record with deep regret the deaths VY of Mr. G. M. Pettitt, Mr. T. Jagger and Mr. R. Flack, Mr. George Maze Pettitt was manager of the Canterbury branch of Martin Walter, Ltd.
Mr. Tom Jagger, who was 73. was in business in Southport for more than 40 years as .a. furniture removal and storage contractor.
Mr. Robert Flack, who died in hospital at Bangor, Co. Down, was one of the three members of the Ulster Transport Tribunal. He was 68. He held the degree of Master of Laws at the University of London and had been connected with transport from an early age.
SHEFFIELD'S THREE PLANS
SSEFFIELD may get larger one-man operated buses on out-of-town" routes, according to Alderman Sidney Dyson, chairman of the city's transport committee. Alderman Dyson predicted last week that this was one of three major projects which his committee would soon be studying. The others were the reconstruction and reorganization of the Queen's Road depot and the establishment of new routes and services for new housing estates.