OBITUARY
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WE regret to announce the deaths of VV MR. I. L. S. MELVILLE, MONSIEUR JULES PEUGEOT, MR. WILLIAM ARTHUR EWER, MR. JAMES A. PICICTFIALL and MR. JOHN OLIVER LUCAS.
Mr. Melville, who was 61, was southwestern regional sales manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd. He joined the company in 1913 and resumed his association with Leyland at Bristol in 1920, after war service. He became regional sales manager there in 1930.
Monsieur Peugeot, who was 77, was the eldest of three brothers who built up the French manufacturing concern bearing their name.
• Mr. Ewer was a director of George Ewer and Co., Ltd. He was 66.
Mr. Pickthall was a pioneer haulier in Cumberland, and when he retired a few years ago was head of one of West Cumberland's largest transport contracting businesses, J. A. Pathan and Sons, Cleaton Moor. He was 75.
Mr. Lucas was to have rejoined the Joseph Lucas export organization on March 1 after a long illness, but died of pneumonia last Sunday in a Birmingham hospital.