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MR. A. E. KNIGHT has been appointed traffic superintendent of West Hartlepool Transport Department.
MR. D. G. SroicEs, general sales and service manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has left for a tour of India.
MR. A. C. S1VYER, who joined Dagenham Motors. Ltd., as general sales manager in 1954, has been appointed a director.
MR. G. E. GonFREv has resigned his position with the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., and joined the board of the Silvertown Rubber Co., Ltd., yesterday.
MR. J. BELI., assistant manager of the Glasgow branch of Simms Motor Units, I.td., • has been promoted branch manager. He succeeds MR. V. C. BALLARD. who has resigned.
MR. ALBERT HENDRY has been appointed a director of Car Mart Sales, Ltd. He joined Car Mart, Ltd., as assistant secretary in 1948, and will retain his present appointment as assistant secretary to all companies in the group.
MR. S. E. BURLING-ION, a director of Smiths Motor Accessories, Ltd., has assumed the general managership of the London sub-division. MR. C. S. STEADMAN, director, has taken similar responsibilities for the Witney subdivision.
MR. B. H. HARBOUR, member of the London Transport Executive, MR. F. G. MAXWELL, operating manager (railways), MR. C. E. DUNTON, chief civil engineer, and J. D. C. CHURCHILL, assistant secretary, have just returned from a visit to Moscow and Leningrad, where they studied the latest develop
ments in city transport. They also inspected transport undertakings in Stockholm. Hamburg and West Berlin. Their tour lasted four weeks.
BELFAST TRAFFIC DOWN: CUT IN SERVICES
ACUT in frequencies on several
routes is planned by Belfast Transport Department following a drop of lm in the number of passengers carried on trolleybuses in the first half of the current financial year.
Although there has been a fall of more than lm. in the number of passengers on motorbuses, it is understood that motorbus services will not be affected. Alterations were made in the evening schedules several months ago.
ROAD TO REPLACE RAIL
AS an economy measure, road services are to replace 600 miles of railways serving the goldfields and the wheat belt of Western Australia.
Abandonment of the lines will also save expenditure on modernization of the railway system, which, last year, had a deficit of fA4.6m. The departmental committee. on whose recommendation the State Government are acting, suggested the closing of at least 1.500 miles of line.