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MR. H. G. FORD has been elected chairman of the South Wales Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association. Miss E. D. ROGERS has been elected vice-chairman.
MR. J. S. MACLAY, Minister of Transport, is resting after a breakdown caused by overwork. The Ministry said this week that he was likely to be away from duty for several weeks.
MR. F. A. CLEMINSON, of the technical staff of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., has sailed for South Africa, where he will supervise the installation of ovens for laminated safety-glass manufacture at the Port Elizabeth factory of the Shatterprufe Safety Glass concern.
MR. B. C. WREN has been elected chairman of the Southampton centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. MR. G. L. BAKER and MR. H. W. HOARE have become vice-chairmen. The Merseyside centre has elected MR. T. H. CAREY as its chairman, with MR. J. Boswell as vice-chairman.
MR. NORMAN MORTON, engineer and deputy manager of the Leics-Northants district of British Road Services, has been recommended for appointment as general manager of Sunderland Transport Department. He began his career with Manchester Transport Department and later became engineer and deputy manager of Southport Transport Department.
MR. WILLIAM GARNER has been appointed general manager of TillingStevens, Ltd., and Vulcan Motors, Ltd. He was previously general manager of works.. After serving as works manager at the Edmonton engineering department of the British Oxygen Co., Ltd., he joined the Rootes group and took tip a post w.th Tilling-Stevens and Vulcan shortly after those concerns were acquired.
MR. H. SPURRIER, managing 'director of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. He succeeds MR. G. E. BEHARRELL, deputy chairman and managing directiar of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Ltd.. who becomes deputy president. Mr. Spurrier, whose father founded the Leyland company, commenced his apprenticeship with the concern during the 1914-18 war and was appointed managing director in 1949. The new vice-presidents of the S.rvl.m.T. are DR. F. LLEWELLYN SMITH, of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and MR. A. B. WARING, chairman and managing director Of Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd. They succeed Mr. Spurrier and SIR JOHN BLACK, deputy chairman and managing director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd. MR. W. R. BLACK, managing director of Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., has been re-elected treasurer. MR. R. D. YOUNG has been appointed a director and general manager of T.I. (Export), Ltd.
MR. H. R.DAVJES has been appointed Midland Sales manager of Whitehouse Industries, Ltd. (Philidas Division).
MACHINERY-TOWING CASE BEFORE BENCH
A PROSECUTION arising from the I-1towing of a four-wheeled steelshearing machine by a lorry came before Dudley magistrates, last week. John Thomas Round, Jack Mondon and Noel Francis Evans, trading as Evans and Mondon, Netherton, pleaded guilty on three charges of using a motor vehicle not covered by insurance, having no brakes on a trailer and having no distinguishing. marks on a trailer.
Mr. 0. L. Bergendorff, for the defence, said that the defendants had made a genuine mistake, not thinking that the machine would constitute a trailer. "Having looked up a recent judgment given by the Lord Chief Justice that a four-wheeled poultry shed, when towed by a lorry, becomes a trailer, I am forced to advise my clients to plead guilty." he said. Evans and Mondon were discharged absolutely. Round was fined El on each of the charges and his licence to drive heavy vehicles was suspended for a year.