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Mi. F. G. Bristow, C.B.E., general secretary of the Commercial Motor Users Association, and secretary of the British Road Federation, has been elected chairman of the highways cornniittee of Westminster City Council.
Mr. Albert Hittinger, general manager of the National Benzoic Co., Ltd., has been appointed a director of the company. He has been associated with the National Benzole concern since its inception in 1919, and became general manager six years later.
In addition to being a very active member of the Appeal Tribunal, Mr. E. S. Shrapnell-Smith, C.B.E., has just become chairman of the Petroleum In rldstry Committee of the British Standards Institution, in succession to Admiral Sir George Goodwin, K.C.B.
Few notabilities in road transport are included in the New Year Honours, but amongst the Knights Bachelor we noted the names of Alderman A. R. Atkey, J.P., a well-known Nottingham ao-bent, and Mr. C. H. Bressey, C.B., C.B.E., F.S.I., Engineer for the Survey of Highway Development in Greater London.
As from the beginning of the year, Mr. W. M. W. Thomas has become general manager of Wolseley Motors (1927), Ltd. For several years Mr. Thomas was director in charge of sales and allied activities at the Morris Motors works, at Cowley, and more recently he has been general manager of Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., Birmingham. He has bad a wide experience of the motor industry and is this year's president of the Motor Trade Association.
Dr. Karl Maybach, of the Maybach.Motorenb,au concern, made an interesting speech at the recent 25th anniversary celebrations of the company, which were attended by more than 1,500 people. At the age of 25, Dr. Maybach founded the company in conjunction with the late Count' Zeppelin, and he gave an interesting survey of the pioneer work done by his father, Herr Wilhelm Maybach, together with Herr Gottlieb Daimler. His father was the first to build a motorcar with a steel frame, change-speed gearbox and wire spoked wheels. It was exhibited in 1889 at the Paris World Exhibition. Soon after, he invented the carburetter which, in its first principles, is utilized on practically every modern petrol vehicle. After the war, Dr. Maybach developed his high-speed railcar oil engine with a specially designed transmission, following which he advocated streamlined light railcars, which departed drastically from the old carriage design.
We reproduce on this page a portrait of Mr. C. G. Williams, M.Sc., who has recently been appointed Director of Research of the research and standardization committee of the Institution of Automobile Engineers. As Research Manager, he has been in close touch with all the work carried out since the inception of the committee in 1931. It will be recalled that Mr. Williams wa,s the author of the I.A.E. reports on cylinder wear.
Mr. Williams is a graduate in engineering of both London and Manchester Universities and began his conRection with the ,motor industry in 1923 as a research engineer on the staff of the Research Association of Britisn Motor and Allied Manufacturers. In 1929 he was appointed technical secretary of the Research Association, and, when the latter body was taken over by the Institution, was appointed Research Manager.
Two of the north-east-coast staff of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., Mr. J. Mackenzie Wood and Mr. S. C. D. Smith, have recently completed 25 years' service with the company, and to mark the occasion they were presented with souvenirs by their colleagues. The presentations were made by Mr. G. F. Prior, the company's branch manager at Newcastle-on-Tyne, who himself has been 35 years with the company.
Concentration on Commercial-motor Sales.
The Central Garage, Ltd., Bradford and Leeds, has acquired additional premises in Bradford, which are to be devoted entirely to the operation of important agencies recently acquired for commercial vehicles, a branch of the trade which the company has not, hitherto, conducted to any considerable extett.
This development was mentioned by Mr. J. Russell Rose at the annual meeting of the company, last Friday. In addition to the ordinary sales depot, said Mr. Rose, the new premises—which are already partly stocked—contain adequate workshops for repairs and service. B.R.F. MEMBERSHIP INCREASE.
The membership of the British Road Federation, which has recently been increased by the Scottish Federation of Aerated Water Manufacturers and Bottlers Associations being admitted to membership, now consists of 34 national organizations, which, together, cover all the various interests of the commercial-motor industry.
Licence Prosecution Fails.
At Pembroke Dock Police Court, a local motor dealer and wireless trader successfully defended an action brought against him for not having a C licence for a commercial motorcycle combination used in connection with his business. The summons, which was brought under the Road and Rail Traffic Act, was dismissed.
The case for the prosecution was that, on December 6, a commercial motorcycle combination was seen being ridden by an employee of the defendant, the sidecar carrying goods and a passenger. The defendant held a C licence, but this applied only to his delivery van. It was contended that the sidecar outfit was used only for business purposes.
The defendant argued that, on November 10, he put into service the Motorcycle outfit, because his van was insufficient to meet his needs. The date of the alleged offence was December 6, but, under the Act, he could have car tied on until December 10 without committing an offence. Under the Act, C-licence holders are permitted a month in which to obtain a C licence for a new vehicle.
Two Positions Available at Hull.
Hull Corporation's transport committee proposes that the vacancy created by the departure of Mr. Moore, the chief assistant and traffic superintendent, for Liverpool, shall be filled by two separate appointments as chief assistant, at a salary of £600 a year, and traffic superintendent, at £450 a year.