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The death is reported of MR. ERNEST P. A. BOWER, late managing director of Flexible Lamps, Ltd.
We announce with regret the death of MR. ALLEN WALTER, secretary of the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners Association (Liverpool No. 1 Sub-area. of the R.H.A.), and of the Liverpool and District Conference of Road Transport Employers, as well as of other
transport organizations. He was 50 years old. By his death Liverpool road transport bas .lost one of its most
capable officials. His heaviest wartime job was in organizing. the Port of Liverpool Road Transport Control, Ltd., which functioned successfully until vehicles and traffic, came under the Road Haulage Branch of the M.O.W.T. He also achieved distinction for the manner in which he presented the case for his Association before Lord Perry's committee, Which was dealing with the merger of associations.
• ,Road transport has lost one of its well-known and best-liked people by the death, on May 10, of LIEUT.-COL. ALLAN HAY SIMPSON, who had a wide circle of friends-in the industry. • He served with the Royal Flying Corps from 1914-18, and, subsequently, with
the Army of Occupation. Later he founded the business of Allan Simpson, Ltd., of which he remained a director until his death. In 1940 he rejoined the R.A.F., retiring with the ,rank of Flight Lieutenant in 1942. Immediately after, he undertook the formation ofallo. 2 London Transport Column Home Guard, which he commanded,
For some years he was honorary secretary of the Metropolitan Area of the original Road Haulage Association, and with his friend, Mr. J. F. E. Pye as its chairman, was largely reSponsible for its early and rapid growth.
He was a.„ Freeman of the City of' _London, and a Liverynian of the Worshipful Company of Carmen, .a member of the Caledonian Lodge and of the London Scottish Golf Club. In 1935 he founded the Roving Players Golfing Society.
We regret to record the death of MR. JOSEPH HEPWORTH. f P for East Bradford, and chairman of the Bradbid Piston and Piston Ring Co., Ltd.,
Albion Works, Greengates. For the greater part of his career, his associatitan with the manufacture of piston rings, pistons and other engine cornponente was through membership of the concern of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., of Bradford. It was in 1913 that he joined this company, formed in 1910 to develop the business which had been founded by his father, Mr. Elija Hepworth, and other sons. Eventually he became joint managing director, a 'position he held until 1933, when he retired from the concern. Three years later he took part in the foundation of the Bradford Piston and PistOn Ring Co.," Ltd., of which his only son, Mr. G. A. Hepworth, is managing director.