Mr. T. G. Gibb to Head B.R.S.
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THE successor to Maj.-Gen. G. N.
Russell as general manager of British Road Services on October 1 will be Mr. Thomas George Gibb, who entered road transport in 1945. Gen. Russell is to become a member of the British Transport Commission.
Born in 1915, Mr. Gibb is at present manager of the North-Eastern Division of B.R.S. He joined the L.N.E.R. in 1933 as a traffic apprentice. At the beginning of the war, he served in the Transport Division of the Royal Engineers, but later joined the Transport Department of the Ministry of Supply. Subsequently he was Yorkshire Regional Transport Officer.
In 1945 he joined Currie and Co. (Newcastle), Ltd., becoming director and general manager in 1947. After nationalization he was appointed Western divisional traffic officer at Cardiff, deputy chief traffic officer at headquarters, deputy chief officer, organization, and; in 1956, to his present post.
BIGGEST ELECTRICAL LOAD
BELIEVED to be the heaviest electrical load yet transported in this country, a stator, for the High Marnham power station, near Tuxford, Notts, left the works of The English Electric Co., Ltd., Stafford, by road. on Saturday.
The stator, for the first of five reheat turbo-generators, with its transporter, weighs 220 tons. Transport arrangements are in the hands of Robert Wynn and Co., Ltd., Manchester, who are using a 143-ft, long transporter for the job.
The load is expected to arrive at High Marnham on Sunday after a nine-day journey.
TYRE PRICES INCREASED
TWO major rubber manufacturers, the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., and Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., this week announced a price increase of 2+ per cent, throughout their range of tyres.
The Dunlop increase became operative on Monday and Firestone's price change came on Wednesday.
Increases will affect tyres, tubes and flaps, and remould process prices—and a Dunlop spokesman told The Commercial Motor the increase was "purely due to the rise in the price of rubber."