§ Sir J. REMNANT asked the Minister of Transport if all the Director-Generals, Directors and Assistant Directors in his Department have been appointed; and what are their names and previous experience?
§ Mr. NEAL: The names and full particulars of previous experience of the officials of the rank of Director-General were given in a speech by the Minister of Transport in this House on 10th July last, to which I would refer the hon. Member. In addition, Mr. Burgess has been appointed Director-General for Ireland. Mr. Burgess was formerly Irish representative of the London and North Western Railway, and during the War Director of (Irish) Cross-Channel Transportation. No further appointments are authorised. Two posts for officials of the rank of Director, and three of the rank of Assistant Director remain unfilled. As a statement of the experience of Directors and Assistant Directors is somewhat lengthy, I am sending the hon. and gallant Member the list.
§ The following is a copy of the statement referred to:
1699W| Name | Experience. |
| Mr. M. Kissane, O.B.E. | Deputy Naval Store Officer, Admiralty; Director of Munition Stores, Ministry of Munitions; Assistant Director of Materials and Priority, Admiralty; in charge of Demobilisation of Forces Branch, Ministry of Labour. |
| Mr. J. Milne, M.I.M.E., F.S.S. | Great Western Railway Company. |
| Mr. J. A. A. Pickard, D.S.O. | Railway Company, R.E. (Lieut.-Colonel), London Traffic Branch, Board of Trade; Assistant Director of Light Railways, B.E.F., France. |
| Mr. J. Pike | London and North-Western Railway. |
| Mr. A. T. V. Robinson | Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury. |
| Mr. E. T. Tudsbery, M.C.A.M.Inst.C.E. | Member of firm of consulting engineers. |
| Mr. P. Wharton | Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland. |
| Assistant Directors. | |
| Mr. R. G. H. Clements, A.M.Inst.C.E. | Formerly Deputy Borough Engineer, Brighton. |
| Mr. W. D. Duffield, 0.B.E. | North Eastern Railway. |
| Lieut.-Colonel J. A. S. dray, C.M.G., D.S.O. | Assistant District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria; Railway Transport Service, France; Deputy - Director - General of Transportation. |
| Mr. H. G. Hindell, O.B.E. | Central Argentine Railway; Railway Transport Service, France; Chief Stores Officer, Directorate of Railways, North Russian Expeditionary Force. |
| Mr. P. T. R. Kellner, O.B.E., D.S.O. | Indian Finance Department; Chief Auditor, Oush and Rohilrund State Railway. |
| Mr. A. E. Kirkus, O.B.E | North Eastern Railway; Ministry of Munitions; Admiralty. |
| Mr J. E. Ketching | North Eastern Railway; Assistant Director of Docks, France. |
| Mr. K. L. Macaulay | Egyptian Delta Light Railway Co.; Chief Accountant Egyptian Postal Administration. |
| Mr. W. S. Richmond, C.M.G., A.M.Inst. C.E. | Engineering Inspector, Road Board; Deputy - Director of Roads, B.E.F., France. |
| Mr. W. E. Simnett, M.B.E., Assc.Inst. C.E. | Assistant Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers; technical duties under the Director of Military Intelligence. |
| Civil Engineers. | |
| Deputy-Director-General. | |
| Mr. Bradford Leslie, O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E. | Bengal Nagpur Railway; Consulting Engineer and Partner in the firm of Sir John Wolfe Barry; Private practice as Consulting Engineer. |
| Chief Civil Engineers. | |
| Mr. J. Ferguson, M.I.C.E | Consulting Engineer; Managing Director of James Young, Ltd., Public Works Contractors; Member of Rural Transport (Scotland) Committee. |
| Mr. N. G. Gedye, O.B.E., M.I.C.E. | Consulting Engineer; Chief Engineer of the Tyne Improvement Commission; Acting Director of Special Construction, Admiralty. |
| Mr. T. G. Menzies, C.B.E., M.I.C.E. | Chief Civil Engineer to the late John Strechan; Contractor for Railways, Docks, etc.; Chief Engineer and afterwards Director of Messrs. Eastern Gibb & Son, Ltd.; Director of Special Construction, Admiralty. |
| Deputy-Chief Civil Engineer. | |
| Mr. G. A. Maunsell, A M.I.C.E., A.C.G.I. | Assistant Engineer on Water Power Installations in France and Switzerland; Chief Engineer to John Ver Mehr, Builder of Concrete Ships. |