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The death has occurred, at Darlington, of MR. WILLIAM PERCIVAL, founder and managing director of Percival 'Bros. (Coaches), Ltd., the concern of bus proprietors of Richmond, Yorkshire.
The death occurred, last week, in a London nursing home, of MR. ALEXANDER Ducio.u6i, chairman and governing director of the oil concern 'bearing his name. It may not be generally known that he flew with the late M. Bleriot; and that he was responsible for the laying down of a landmark on the spot Where It Bler'iot firit tbuclied , down on his Channel'ilight from 'Calais to Dover.
The Heavk Woollen District Transport Association has lost an active supporter by the death of Ma. ER.:4EST Box, on February 2. Aged sixty-two, Mr, Box was a member of the Dewsbury haulage-contracting concern of Edwin Box and Sons, Ltd. He was one of four brothers who entered the business founded by their father, in those days. a proprietor of horse-drawn cabs and haulage vehicles, Later, the company adopted mechanical transport 'for both 'Passeng,et and goods Work, but not long before the war its motor-coach department was sold to the Yorkshire Woollen District' Transport Co., Ltd. Mr. Ernest Box was a groty organizer under the M.O.W,T, scheme for distribution of fuel for commercial vehicles.
We much regret to record the death at the age of 56 of MR. CECIL KIMRER, resulting from a railway accident on February. 4. Although mainly concerned with the private side of motoring, being for many years managing director of the M.G. Car Co., Ltd., which he left in 1941, he had for some time been a director of Specialloid, Ltd. Trained in accountancy, he joined the Sheffield Simplex concern in 1915, and, later, E. G. Wrigley and Co., Ltd.