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RHA elections K. D. Wrigglesworth has been elected chairman of
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the Road Haulage Association Dewsbury sub-area; R. Beattie is vice-chairman; G. Drury secretary; Mr Wrigglesworth, Mr Beattie and R. A. Edwards representatives to the area committee; Mr Wrigglesworth and T. Simms representatives to the tipping group; A. Burnett and F. Jackson representatives to the longdistance group.
G. H. Dews has been elected chairman of the Huddersfield sub-area: F. Lunn is vicechairman; B. Tinker secretary; Mr Dews, Mr Lunn and E. Brooke representatives to the area committee; Mr Brooke and M. Ward representatives to the tipping group; Mr Dews and Mr Lunn representatives to the long-distance group. May Tofts, -a director of Farmcraft Ltd, has been elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association Metropolitan North London Area. Miss Toffs is the only serving woman member in the Area.
FTA,elections J_ H. Holbrook has been elected chairman of the Freight Transport Association, Coventry area; W. W. Ashby is deputy chairman; H. A. Beard vice-chairman: 8. F. Swindon secretary.
E. S. Wright has been elected chairman of the Hereford area; G. J, J. Lewis is deputy chairman L. J. Vale and K. C. Hole vice-chairman; P. Wright secretary.
A. Jones has been elected chairman of the Preston, Blackburn and Burnley area; R. W. F. Borten is vice-chairmen.
Death of former Atkinson chairman
We record with regret the deaths of W. G. Allen, Arthur Richard Wileman and James Watson Woolliscroft
Mr Allen, 77, was a London businessman who in 1933 bought Atkinson Lorries as a struggling Preston company and remained its chairman for 33 years. In 1948 a holding company was formed which acquired or set up subsidiary companies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For a number of years and to the time ol his death. Mr Allen was chairman of the British Transport Vehicle Manufacturers' Association. Mr Anthony W, Allen, one of his two sons, is the present chairman of Atkinson Lorries 0-loidings) Ltd.
Mr Wileman, 72, started in haulage business at Stoney Stanton, Leics, with a horse and dray when he was demobilized from the Army in 1918, and retired three years ago. Mr Woolliscroft, 62, was managing director of J. H. Woolliscroft and Son Ltd—operator of the Silver Service bus services in the Matlock and Bakewell areas of Derbyshire —a business founded by his late father nearly 50 years ago. Mr Woolliscroft was a former East Midlands area chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association. He was a member of Derbyshire county council and Matlock urban council.
We also record with regret the deaths of Harry Briggs, Cecil Frederick Ward and George Butler in a car accident last Friday. Mr Briggs had been transport manager of the Grimsby Fish Merchants Association for the past four years; Mr Ward was his assistant Mr Butler was contracts manager for British Road Services Ltd in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.