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CouNcrar-oR A. SALISBURY, well known in the Blackpool coaching world, has been returned unopposed to Blackpool Town Council.
Leicester Passenger Transport Committee last week presented an illuminated address to its retiring general manager, MR. HARRY POOL.
MR. L. RUTTENBuRG, director and general manager of Consolidated Near East Co., Ltd., the Leyland agent in Palestine, is at present on a business visit to the headquarters' factories of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
MR. JAMES Scorr, manager at Bathgate for the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd , who sat for a number of
years on Whitburn Town Council, is one of the new candidates for municipal honours at Bathgate.
MR. Fl. R. W. SCOTT, who is well known in the commercial-vehicle field in South Wales and the West of England, has joined Garner Motors, Ltd., to look after that company's interests in the same territory.
LORD AUSTIN will be the chief guest at a dinner which the Bradford section of the Motor Agents Association will hold on November 27. It–is anticipated that the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bradford will be present.
MR. A. A. LIARDET, general manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is expected to
arrive in England to-morrow (Saturday), from America, where he has made a survey of commercial-vehicle manufacturing methods and operating conditions.
To-day (Friday) MR. L. IIOREBELISHA, Minister of Transport, is to visit Ayr to unveil the memorial, erected in the form of a tablet by the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, to John Loudon Macadam, pioneer of the macadamized road.
MR. G. A. HOTTER is resigning his position as are secretary of the West Midland Area of the Commercial Motor Users Association, purely for private reasons, and has accepted an appointment as national general secretary to an employers' association not con
nected with road transport. ,
DR. J. E. SMART, Director of Education for Acton, and executive member of the Association of Education Committees, has been appointed chairman of the National Child Safety, Committee of the National " Safety First" Association, whilst MR. F. BARRAcaoucu, a member of Leeds City Council and a past president •of the National Union of Teachers, has been appointed vice-chairman, MR. A. J. PRAGNELL has been appointed to develop the new road-rail services in the State of Hyderabad, India. He joined the Great Western Railway Co. 24 years ago and, when he takes up his new post, will be deputy general manager of the State railways. About 30 buses are now in use,' but before long it is expected that the fleet will consist of SOO vehicles. Mr. Pragnell will also be largely concerned with the development of goods services by road.
MR. J. S. DnEwitv, M.I.A.E., who was the founder of Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., and has held the position of joint managing director of that concern for the past 14 years, resigned his position a few months ago. He has recently joined Hands (Letchworth), Ltd., as joint managing director with MR. H. HANDS. Mr. Drewry has now completed the production plans for the Hands semi-trailer, the extensions to the Letchworth works are finished, and a steady output is anticipated.
The successor to MR. A. R. FEARNLEY, general manager of the passenger transport department of Sheffield Corporation, who retires at the end of the year, will be MR. H. WATSON, who, for 11 years, has been assistant manager and traffic superintendent. He joined the transport department in 1899 and has, therefore, been intimately associated with all the developments that have taken place in this branch of municipal service. He is an associate member of the Institute of Transport.