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After 32 years with the Bowater Paper Corporation Ltd., Mr.
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T. D. Batter'11 retired last month. Up to 1955 he had been transport manager and, during his long period of service in this capacity, he saw the company's road vehicle fleet in the United Kingdom grow from 16 to 400 vehicles. Since 1955 Mr. Botterill has been in charge of Bowater's travel department. His working Iffe in transport and engineering goes back 58 years; before joining Bowaters he served with both the London Evening Standard and the London Co-operative Society as transport manager.
Mr. Alec Issigonis, technical director of the British Motor Corporation and originator of the Mini, has had the Insignia Award in Technology (Honoris Causa), mechanical industries, conferred upon him by the City and Guilds of London Institute.
At the annual election of the Leamington, Stratford upon Avon and Warwick sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. C. A. Goddard (W. inson and Sons Ltd., Barford) was elected chairman and Mr. A. E. Oran (Eric Newcombe Ltd., Wooton Wawen) vicechairman.
Mr. Harry Bills, for the past 16 years general works manager of Bonallack and Sons Ltd., the commercial vehicle bodybuilders of Basildon, Essex, is leaving to take up a new appointment in Ireland as general manager of Montana Steel Ltd.
Mr. J. A. Holloway has been appointed Press and public relations officer to S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd. Mr. Holloway, who joined Smiths in 1948, was contract sales manager to Smiths Radiomobile from 1956 until 1962, and more recently sales liaison executive for Smiths motor accessory division. He succeeds Mr. J. A. Coveney, who resigned to take up residence in Spain. Mr. G. Ealsori continues as Press officer of Smiths motor accessory division.
Mr. S. E. Harris has been appointed group general manager—a new position of Isherwoods Petrol Co. Ltd„ of Eccles, Lancs.
Mr. D. MacDonald has been elected 1964-65 chairman of the Thames Valley area of the London and Home Counties Division of the T.R.T.A. Vice-chairmen are: Mr. A. L. Taylor, Mr. E. J. W. Lewis, Mr. C. McLeod, Mr. J. L. Bozward and Mr. R. G. Stockman.
Mr. R. F. L. Martin is taking over from Mr. R. S. Kinsey as Export Credits Guarantee Department representative in North America.
n26 Mr, Frank Lythgoe, general manager of Middlesbrough Corporation transport department, is due to retire in October on reaching the age of 65. Mr. Lythgoe has been with the Corporation for some 30 years in the same capacity. Prior to that he served as transport manager with two Lancashire corporations—Ravvtenstall and Leigh.
At elections in three areas of the Traders Road Transport Association, officers for 1964 were elected as follows: Eastern area—Mr. H. J. Cavanagh, chairman; Mr. E. W. Hearne, Mr. B. H. Hirst, Mr. N. S. Hunter, Mr. J. E. Lake, Mr. A. E. Prescott, Mr. R. E. Wing, vicechairmen. Kent area—Mr. R. S. Adkins, chairman; Mr. J. G. Taylor, vice-chairman. Sussex area—Mr. F. G. Joyce, chairman; Mr. A. A. Coates, vice-chairman.
Mr. S. A. Walker, formerly sales director of I. & H. Transport Services (Peckham) Ltd., has now resigned from this company by mutual agreement and has taken the position of managing director of Industrial Warehousing Co. (Woolwich) Ltd.
In the Devon and Cornwall area of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. T. E. Lamey has been elected chairman of the North Devon sub-area, the vice-chairmen being Mr. D. Forward and Mr. E. Hopkins. In the Plymouth sub-area the chairman is Mr. F. M. Ling and the vicechairman is Mr. W. G. Stoneham. The West Cornwall sub-area chairman is Mr. W. J. Duckham and the vice-chairman Mr. L. J. Arthur. Mr. W. F. Miners is chairman of the Newton Abbot and Torbay sub-area and the vice-chairmen are Mr. F. H. Hiscox and Mr. L. G. Valiance.
Mr. T. A. Merritt, previously sales manager, replacement tyre division of the Avon Rubber Co. Ltd., has been appointed general manager, supplies and services, marketing division. Mr. R. Shipley becomes planning and distribution manager at the George Spencer Moulton division of the Avon group at Bradford-on-Avon. Mr. D. L. Gibson has been appointed sales manager, replacement tyre division, and has been replaced as area sales manager, Midland region, by Mr. E. Smith.
Mr. R. F. .Groves, service director, Joseph Lucas (Sales and Service) Ltd., is joining the Lucas organization in Australia as chief engineer and deputy general manager of Joseph Lucas (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Mr. N. E. Streets, service executive of Joseph Lucas (Sales and Service) Ltd., has been appointed executive director of the company.
Mr. R. 3. Holliday, who joined Vandervell Products Ltd. in December, • 1962, as personal assistant to the chairman and managing director, has been appointed to the board. Mr. C. C. Dakliam has retired as director and general manager of Lancashire United Transport Ltd. No announcement regarding his successor has yet been made.
Mr. L. M. Buffey has been appointed sales manager of Atlas Hydraulic Loaders Ltd.
• At the annual general meeting of the South Wales area of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association held in Cardiff, Mr. A. E. Brewer (Brewers' Motor Services, Caerau, Glam) was re-elected as area chairman and Mr. IL F. Hill (Hill's, Tredegar Ltd.) as vice-chairman.
Mr. John C. Woods has been appointed assistant district manager of the Birmingham office of the Skefko Bail Bearing Co. Ltd., of Luton. Mr. Woods, who joined Skefko in 1954, has been senior representative at Birmingham since 1961.
Obituary
WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. R. D. Machin, Capt. Arthur R. S. Nutting, Mr. H. Roberts, Mr. P. J. R Tapp, Mr. Cyril Williamson and Mr. G. Wingate.
Mr. Machin, who was 55, was transport manager of Malkin Tiles of Burslem; he was formerly in business with his father as a haulage contractor. Capt. Nutting, who was 76, was chairman of Coast Lines Ltd., which has an interest in the Tayforth Ltd. road haulage group. A Dubliner, Capt. Nutting had many commercial interests and was a member of the Northern Ireland Development Council, Mr. Roberts, who was 62, was publicity manager for Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd. He died in hospital last week after several years of indifferent health: Mr. Roberts joined Norris, Henty and Gardners Ltd. (the predecessor company) in 1927 and served 21 years in India as technical representative. He had been publicity manager at Patricroft since his return to the U.K. in 1949.
Mr. Tapp died at the age of 77; at the time he was chairman of Market Transport Ltd., the London meat haulage firm, and of County Commercial Cars Ltd.. of Fleet, Hants. Mr. Tapp was a part-time member of the former Road Haulage Executive from its inception in 1947 until 1951, From 1943 to 1946 he was a director of the wartime Road Haulage Organization and was elected a vice-president of the Institute of Transport for 1953-54.
Mr. Williamson, who was 53, had been in business as a coach proprietor at Crossways Filling Station, Sneyd Green, Staffs, since 1927.
Mr. Wingate, who was chief applications engineer of the Perkins Group, was killed in a road accident last week. He was 41 and joined Perkins in 1951; previously he was manager in charge of engineering for Peter Brotherhood Ltd., of Peterborough.
Short-term for Steel
SHORT-TERM licences covering 10 vehicles were granted to a Bishop Auckland (Co. Durham) haulier—W. Brunskill and Son (Transport) Ltd., by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Darlington last week. This was at the .conclusion of the first day's hearing of a series of applications by Brunskill for a new A licence specifying 20 tippers and variations to existing licences, to enable the company to carry "mainly goods for the South Durham Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., as required ".
The first day of the hearing was taken up with evidence given by Mr. A. R. Smalcs, on behalf of South Durham, who tbld the Authority that his company would have to consider restricting production if it did not get any transport relief.
He said that if the applications were granted it would be possible for South Durham to utilize the vehicles in both directions carrying limestone, coal or ore inwards, and steel outwards.
The applications, which were adjourned until May 13 and 14, were opposed by British Road Services, Siddle C. Cook Ltd., Sunter Bros. Ltd., A. Stevens (Haulage) Ltd., R. Durham and Sons Ltd. and Econofreight Ltd.
• NINE SWITCHED GREATER flexibility of the company's nine-vehicle fleet was the explanation for a. request to the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Hall, last week by Kavanagh and Hyde Ltd., of Birmingham, to switch five vehicles on Contract A and four on B to a new B licence. The application was granted.
Presenting the case for Kavanagh and Hyde, Mr. N. Carless said that the conditions required were solid fuel for Nash and Son Ltd., Alexander Comley and Wall Ltd. and H. Gilbert and Son Ltd., and scrap metal for C. H. Ford and Co. (Birmingham) Ltd., within 150 miles. The firm agreed to surrender the existing B licence and not to apply for further Contract A licences in respect of the customers concerned.
E. Midland Decisions DECISIONS in respect of three haulage companies summoned before the East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr.
C. R. Hodgson, under Section 187 of the Road Traffic Act, 1960 (see The Commercial Motor, February 28), have now been announced.
The Authority has granted the applications made by Heanor Coal and Haulage Co. Ltd. and L. Smith (Buckland Haulage) Co. Ltd., and has decided to take no further action under the Act in respect of Walker and Sons (Hauliers) Ltd.