Retirement Will Mean Tilling Reshuffle
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WHEN Mr. F. P. Arnold retires from Vt. the Tilling Group Management Board on December 31 a number of new appointments will take effect. Mr. J. S. Gavin will become chairman of United Automobile Services, Ltd., and associates, and theBrighton, Hove and District Omnibus Co.., Ltd., and will join the board of the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd.
Mr. C. H. S. Pickett Will become chairman of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and associates, and will become a member of the Halifax and Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee. Mr. M. A. Holmes will be the new chairman of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. R. I. H. Longman will become a director of U.A.S. and associates and London Coastal Coaches, Ltd.
Although Mr. Arnold is also retiring from the boards of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., no changes will be made to those companies.
The four men concerned in the appointments are all members of the group management board.
HAULIER WALKS OUT— "HAD ENOUGH" WHILE being cross-examined at LiverVV pool, on Tuesday, a haulier suddenly announced-that he had "had 'enough and left the court. He was Mr. G. H. Cropper, Liverpool, who had applied to vary his B licence by adding "goods -for Tubewrights, Ltd., as required."
For the apPlicant, Mr. A. E. Whitehead said he held a number of licences, including aspecial A licence for 10 vehicles and a B licence for four vehicles.
In evidence, Mr. Cropper said that at present his B-licence vehicles carried cattle foods and all kinds of metal work. The special-A vehicles carried a large amount of tube steel for Tubewrights, and he wanted to split this work between special Aand B-licensed lorries.
For the British Transport Commission, Mr. A. W. Balne submitted, that operational schedules which Mr. Cropper had put forward were of no value. After Mr. Balne had asked some questions, • Mr. Cropper withdrew his application and left. The case had been adjourned three times previously (The Commercial Motor, October 3).
NEW A LICENCE GRANTED
AFUR agreeing to amend the normal user he had sought, Mr. M. Smith, Liverpool, was granted a new one-vehicle A licence last week by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay. He had originally asked for a user of: "General goods, South Wales, London and Southern Scotland."
Mr. A. W. Balne, for the British Transport Commission, said their objection would not be pursued if Mr. Smith modified the user to: "General goods mainly within 25 miles, and occasional journeys to London, South Wales and Southern Scotland."