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S.M.T. DIVIDEND JUMP OPERATING profit of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., in the year ended October 31, 1945, after meeting all charges, including deprettiation, amounted to £913,633, as against £872,427 a year earlier. Dividends and interest brought in £411,258, and £27,600 is taken from deferred maintenance reserve, together with a provision of £52,000 for taxation, not now required.
Income tax and E.P.T. require £858,939, and £69,125 is written off goodwill, whilst £185,774 is placed to general reserve. The directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 25 per cent., free of tax, compared with 13iper cent., free of tax, in the previous year, on the ordinary stock, leaving a balance of £33,795 to be carried forward.
JOINT P.R. COMMITTEE TO FIGHT NATIONALIZATION
AT a recent special meeting of the Live-pool District and North Wales Sub-area Committee of the Traders Road Transport Association, it was agreed to form a joint public relations committee with the R.H.A. (Northwestern (Western) Area), for the purpose of dealing with the question of nationalization of road transport. The T.R.T.A. representatives are Messrs. B. G. Ormrod, G. T. Pollard, W. . Whitehead and C. Dudley Whitnall (secretary).
BENEVOLENT FUND'S GOOD EFFORT
THE London Centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund obtained approximately £600 as the result of a special Christmas effort, and the chairman and committee thank all those who helped to raise this useful sum Chairman of the passenger transport committee of Leicester City Council since 1931, ALDERMAN T. .1. GOODING died suddenly on December 21, aged 70 years. Last July he was elected president of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association.
We regret to record the death of MR. EDGAR PAM, a director of the Mond Nickel Co.. Ltd., and president of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. I: 3 joined the company in 1928 as consulting mining engineer, and, after the merger with the International Nickel Co., he was appointed assistant to the delegate director, and subsequently deputy delegate director. In 1945 he became a member of the Mond board.
We announce with regret the death of Sir Alfred Robinson, K.B.E., C.B„ Minst.T., South western Regional Transport Commissioner. Sir Alfred, before the 1914-1918 war, was at the Treasury, and whilst there introduced the " visible licence" for motor vehicles. He joined the Ministry of Transport in 1934 as deputy secretary, holding this post until July, 1940. At the beginning of 1941 he was appointed South-western R.T.C. in succession to Mr. T. Morgan.
MR. H. V. TAYNE has resigned the position of assistant divisional road haulage officer, Division 5, this dating from the end of January.
• MR, CLIFFORD PRIDDY is now sole proprietor of the Fosse Haulage Co., Ltd., Leicester, and has severed connections with the Co-ordinated Road Traffic Services, MR. MARK M. CANSICK, formerly commercial manager and publicity manager of Specialloid, Ltd., has been appointed secretary of the company. He will continue to handle its publicity affairs.
MR. A. E. O'HALLORAN, MIMI., A.1.R.T.E., will shortly be rejoining Andrews Bros. (Bournemouth), Ltd., to take charge of the company's new com
mercial-vehicle department. He was with the company during 1935-36.
MR. S. H. WATERS, A.M.Inst.T., area road haulage officer, 5Q, resigned from that section on December 31, and will be joining the passenger department of United Service Transport Co., Ltd., at
an early date. It will be recollected that Mr. Waters was formerly secretary and manager of P.S.V. Operators, Ltd.
MAJOR C. H. TANNER, MAJOR R. E. BERK and Ma. W. G. Loos have been appointed new directors of F. W. Berk and Co., Ltd. The first named, who was a prisoner of war in Jap hands, has returned from Singapore, whilst Major Berk has returned from service in Italy; Mr. Loos has been with the company for 20 years.
MR. W. J. Cox, M.1.A.E., for many years chief buyer for Leyland Motors, Ltd., retired, after 41 years' service with the company, on December 31, 1945. He has had a varied and successful career with the Leyland concern, which he joined in 1903, when it was known as the Lancashire Steam Motor Co. In 1923, he was made works manager of the company's Kingston works, where he supervised the manufacture of Trojan vehicles until 1928. At that time, the company began increasing its production of passenger-vehicle bodies, and he was appointed body-shop manager at the headquarters factory, production being stepped up to 1,000 passenger bodies per year.
MR. W. ELSEY, advertising manager of Rootes, Ltd., has returned to the Devonshire House headquarters of the company, after being with the R.A.F.
MR. F. A. A. MENZLER, B.Sc., F.I.A., has been appointed chief development and research officer of London Transport. He has been the Board's chief financial officer, and /ill be in charge of the newly created development and research department. MR. D. W—ENNA, M.B.E„ who has recently returned from war service, has been appointed Mr. Menthes principal assistant with the title of development and research officer.
MR. A. J. LAY, who was the Bristol branch manager of Roadways Transport Development, Ltd., for several years before the war, has returned to the company's service after a period during which he has been concerned with the production of aero engines. His present address is Malmains Drive, Frenchay, Bristol, from which a full financial service for the motor trader. including the hire-purchase of motor vehicles, is available. .
MR. D. S. RoniNsoN, who was manager of the general sales department of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., at Fort Dunlop before the war, has been appointed general sales manager of the company's sports division. During the war he commanded the Central Ordnance depots at Derby and Feltham, and in the past 18 months held the job of Inspector R.A.O.C. (Overseas). He joined the company 19 years ago, and has held appointments at Cardiff, Belfast, Norwich, Leeds and Birmingham.
MR. J. S. Wius, M.Inst.T., whose portrait appears on this page, has been appointed managing director of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., after 25 years' servicz. with the company, during which he has held many different appointments. In 1931, he was promoted from the position of general manager of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., to be an executive director of several bus companies in the B.E.T. group. In 1939, he was elected to the board of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., which, this year, celebrates its jubilee. Mr. Wills is chairman of the Public Transport Association, and chairman of a number of bus-operating companies. Amongst other appointments, he is a member of the Council of the B.E.T. Federation, and of the Council of the Institute of Transport. RESUMPTION OF GREEN LINE SER VI( .Es ARR ANGEMFNIS are in nand to restart at an early date the Green Line coach services of London Transport in order to obviate travel difficulties in rural areas, stated the Minister of Transport, Mr. A 1. Barnes, last week in a written answer to a question put by Mr. G. Wallace.
MORRIS-COMMERCIAL VANS TO HAVE SLIDING DOORS I N the interests of increased road
safety, all vans with capacities of 15 cwt. to 5 tons in the 1946 range of Morris-Commercial vehicles are to be equipped with sliding doors, which are draughtproof ad have been designed to work easily under all conditions.
Other safety factors incorporated in Morris-Commercial vehicles include hydraulically operated four wheel brakes, with an independent hand brake actuated by rods instead of cables, heavy-duty cam steering, which is light in action, special ventilation, and progressive springing.
• NORTH-WESTERN MEETINGS AGAINST STATE CONTROL
THE chairman and secretary of the North-western (Western) Area of
the R have been asked by the public ' relations sub-committee to examme and prepare a scheme for a series of meetings to be held through. out the area for the joint purpose of recruiting members and protesting against nationalization, the first and last of such meetings to be held in Liverpool. It is proposed to hold the first meeting in January.
MINISTER OF WAR TRANSPORT "A FANATIC"
" ARE we to understand that we were so inefficient that, according to Mr. Barnes, we saved this country in a very critical time when the railways were being bombed," asked Viscount Long of Wraxall at a dinner, held recently in Wisbech, of the Eastern
Area of the Road Haulage Association. " If we were inefficient we could not have done that" he said.
Stating that he did not think that the industry would get a public inquiry, Lord Long declared, "Fanatics never do things like that, and certainly the present Minister is a fanatic! "
• Mr. H. A. Newport, of Fordham, said that if road haulage were Statecontrolled, the cost of transport must rise. "The Conservative party must fight nationalization to keep this British industry alive," he emphasized.
FORD'S EXPORTS TOTAL /1,750,000 IN 1945
VIGURES of export business for 1945
announced by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., show that the company's total export turnover to November 30 last was £1,477,194. Over one-fifth of this value—actually 22 per cent,—was exported in the month of November and it is estimated that the total for the year will be £1,750,000. The shipments consist of commercial vehicles, tractors, cars and spare parts, and these products are exported on a world-wide basis.