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Mr. Gore-Browne, who on October 19th was announced as the Chairman of the Rates Advisory Committee,' was called to the Bar in 1883 and took silk in 1902. He was elected a_ Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1911.
Mr. W. J. Davis, Companion of Honour, J.P., is Secretary to the National Society of Brassworkers and Metal Mechanics. He is a member and ex-chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress.
Mr. W. M. Acworth, barrister, formerly a member of the London County Council, is a director of the Underground Electric Railways of London, Ltd., and is the author of several wOrks on railway economics. He has served on various railway commissions.
Mr. Lionel A. Martin, one of the committee, was formerly Chairman of the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce, and, for the past five years, has been Chairman of the Transportation Committee, having been deputy chairman of that committee for 12 years.
Mr. W. W. Berry is a member of the Central Chamber of Agriculture and of the Board of Agriculture Advisory Committee. He is a Development Commissioner and Chairman of the Kent Charnoer of Agriculture. Mr, Berry has written several authoritative pamphlets on agriculture.
Mr. W. A. Jepson has been successively mineral traffic manager, assistant chief goods manager, and assistant to the general manager London and NorthWestern Railway. In the latter capacity he has had very considerable experience of Parliamentary work, and it an acknowledged expert on the subject of rates_ LleutaCol. B. Woodhouse, managing director of the new transport company, Which is a further outcome of the War Motors Association (formed to facilitate the purchase of surplus Government vehicles by discharged Service men) has had many years experience of motor vehicles. He has had a complete technical career front his apprenticeship ia,,general engineering up to the ownership of his own business. When he joined up in August, 1914, he was appointed to the inspection branch of the War Office, In 1915 he was workshops officer of the 18th Brigade R.G.A. on the Western Front. Afterwards he was O.C. of the tractor depot at Avonmouth, and from December, 1917, to June, 1919, was works officer of the M.T. section of the Mobilization and Embarkation Area, Bulford, under Col. Lindsay Lloyd. At Avonmouth he was responsible for the provision of all the caterpillar tractors and their equipment, and also for the training of all drivers and mechanics for the whole of the tractors sent overseas for purposes of gun haulage on all the fronts, whilst at %Mord he was responsible for the mechanical effiliency of all vehicles and stores passed for embarkation for .the various fronts. He has earned a good name for works organization and for his powers of administration, as well as for his skill as a mechanical engineer. He has secured for the new company the services of a number of exofficers and N.C.O.s, in whose energy and ability he has great confidence.