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lin Wells, who finds that his .nsultative work for the Road tulage, Association is now king up less time, is offering s services in an advisory or .nsultative capacity ; his address
5 Ridlands Grove, Limpsfield'tart, Surrey.
arold Sansum, sales director for R.F, retires next week after 19 ntrs with the company-49 in .e commercial vehicle industry, eluding Thornycroft, Leyland, ennings, Guy and Sentinel.
onald T. Booth, until recently .d of the Eaton Axle Division, ?.comes director business deqopment Europe, and will work 'cm Houslow.
. Stockinger succeeds H. zremien as representative of :clinical matters relating between lagirus Deutz (Great Britain) id the parent company. Mr. tockinger was previously workig for the company in France ; Fr Kzremien becomes technical
engineer to Eastern Europe and Russia.
John Peiper, assistant chief engineer with Southdown, is moving to Potteries Motor Traction as chief engineer.
Julian Smith, technical assistant (special duties) with Potteries, is succeeding David Robinson, now chief engineer with Cumberland Motor Services.
John Curley, 37, becomes traffic manager for R. F. Interport Movements Ltd, of Leigh, Lancs. Mr Curley gained much of his domestic driving experience with Wallis Haulage of Dartford and has driven his own unit throughout Europe.
Ernie Waterman joins W. S. Yeates from E. J. Baker ; Mr Waterman will become general manager of " Yeates in the South" at the company's new depot to be announced shortly. Frank Rew, south-western repre
sentative, becomes coach sales manager.
John Martin, who was previously with Hestair, becomes works director designate of bodywork specialist Roy Burgess, of Pilsley, near Chesterfield.
Mrs Margaret Wilkinson, who is in her late 30s and was formerly a Research Fellow in Economics at Sheffield University, has been appointed a part-time member of the board of the National Bus Company.
Les Barnes, Champion Spark Plug technical services manager in the UK, is now supervising operations in Europe too. Vic Dubois continues as technical services manager Europe.
Douglas N. Girling, 58, who previously dealt with London Transport's bus purchasing and modification programmes, is now responsible for the overall planning of the bus garage modernisation programme. THE York round of CMLDoY attracted 134 competitors recently. Overall winner was R. Hutchinson, driving a Bedford, of Shell-Mex & BP. The team prize went to the Conoco depot at Sheffield.
The best army driver trophy was won by L/Cpl Tapper, WRAC, of 40 Squadron RCT.
The following also won classes; G. Smurthwaite, of York Post Office ; C. N. Hill, of BOC Middlesbrough; J. Hayes, of Esso, Hull ;' R. Fowler, of Conoco, Sheffield ; B. Temple, of NCL, Hull ; W. A. Brown, of BOC, Middlesbrough ; and R. Sheriff, of Esso, Hull.
Obituary
We record with regret the death of James Moffat.
Mr Moffat, 65, founded the Fife transport firm, James Moffat and Son (Cardenden) Ltd, which now has 50 vehicles, 25 years ago. He started with coach hiring, and expanded into haulage contracting and bulk liquid handling.