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DIVISIONAL SUB-OFFICER LAURENCE CORBRICK, of Newcastle Fire Brigade, has been appointed Home Office firebrigades inspector at Glasgow firebrigade headquarters.
LIEUT. A. Dar,ToN, at present deputy-firemaster of Ayr Fire Brigade, has been appointed a firemaster in connection with Avr County Council's peace-time fire-brigade scheme.
STATION OFFICER ROBERT BLAIR, of Paisley Fire Brigade, has heen appointed deputy-firemaster of Barrow
in-Furness. He joined the Paisley Brigade in 192R. being appointed station officer in 1939.
MR. W. R. HARGRAVE, of Leeds, a solicitor well known in Yorkshire roadtransport circles, especially as the legal representative of several large bus companies, has been elected a Conservative member of Leeds City Council.
MR. W. McAur,Ev GRACIE, M,B.E., M.INsT.T., has been re-elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Carmen for the ensuing year. COLONEL E. W. CRAWFoRn, C.B.E., D.S.O., and Mx. W. A. MrrsoN have been re-elected Senior and Junior Warden respectively.
COITNCILT.OR JOHN WAINWRIGHT has been appointed local organizer at the new Dumfries branch office of the Transport and General Workers' Union. MR, THOMAS OSWALD has been appointed Border Counties' organizer, in succession to Mr. Hugh Murphy. who has been transferred to Glasgow.
MR. ROBERT FRASER SMITH, general manager of Glasgow Corporation's transport department, MR. JAM-ES BARRON, Of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Thornliebank, and
MR. ISAAC BARRIE, the well-known Glasgow haulier, are among the new Justices of the Peace appointed for the county and city of Glasgow.
ALDERMAN BRADLEY, Of Bolton, appointed a member of the National Transport Advisory Committee, has been on the executive of the Municipal Transport Association for four years. For 18 months he has sat on a special committee of that body to advise the Ministry on alternative fuels for road transport. Ile also serves on the National Joint Industrial Council for the tramways industry.
MR. FLEETWOOD C. PRITCHARD has been appointed public relations officer in the Ministry of Transport. He is chairman and joint managing director of Pritchard, Wood and Partners, Ltd., a concern of advertising agents. He is chairman of the publicity committee of the Advertising Association, a member of the Council of the Institute of Incorporated Practitioners in Advertising, and of the British National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce.
Ma. R. H. HILL, C.B., has been appointed deputy secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in succession to SIR ALFRED ROBINSON, K.B.E., C.B., who retired on August 1. MR. GILBERT S. SZLUMPER has been appointed to succeed Mr. Hill as railway control officer at the Ministry. Mr. Szlumper relinquished the post of general manager of the Southern Railway at the outbreak of war to become the Director-General of Transportation and Movements at the War Office, Sir Alfred Robinson will, for the time being, continue to assist the Ministry in connection with certain general I questions arising out of war conditions.