HL Deb 21 January 1948 vol 153 cc585-8WA

Industrial Consumers' Council

Sir Ernest W. Smith, C.B.E., D.Sc. (Chairman). Technical Director of Woodall Duck-ham Cos. 1920-44. Director-General of Gas Supply, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1942-43. President of the Institute of Fuel 1943-45.

Mr. H. C. Armstrong, O.B.E. For the past 24 years, Fuel Officer to Thomas Firth & John Brown Ltd., of Sheffield, and their Associated Companies. For four years Chairman of the Technical Panel of his Regional Fuel Committee.

Mr. C. H. Chester, O.B.E., F.S.C. M.I.Mech.E. Director, General Manager and Secretary, Swindon United Gas Co. Member of the Public Utilities Coal Committee.

Mr. T. E. Chrimes. Motive Power Superintendent, Southern Railway, Waterloo.

Sir Henry Cooper. Chairman, Chamber of Coal Traders & National Council of Coal Traders. Deputy Chairman of Wm. Cory & Son, Ltd.

Mr. A. Deakin, C.B.E. General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Mr. Lincoln Evans. Member of the Iron & Steel Board.

Mr. A. L. Garratt. Executive Director and head of the Engineering Department of Fine Spinners & Doubters, Manchester.

Mr. J. C. Gridley, C.B.E. Marketing Director of the National Coal Board. Formerly a Director of Gueret Llewellyn & Merrett Ltd., Cory Bros. & Co. Ltd., and Stephenson Clarke Ltd. First Chairman of the European Coal Organisation.

Dr. E. S. Grumell, C.B.E., M.I.Min.E. Chairman of Fuel Efficiency Committee and since 1926 Head of Fuel Economy Dept., Imperial Chemical Industries.

Mr. C. K. F. Hague. Managing Director of Messrs. Babcock & Wilcox Ltd.

Mr. H. N. Harrison, O.B.E. National Officer of the National Union of General & Municipal Workers.

Mr. G. T. Harwood Stamper, M.B.E. of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., Greenford, Middlesex.

Mr. R. M. Holland. Manager of the Manchester Coal Department of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.

Mr. S. T. Lamont. Chairman, North of England Coal Traders' Association, Director of Smith, Parkinson & Cole Ltd., Bradford.

Mr. W. A. McPhail.* Director, Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd. Member of several Government and Trade Committees.

Mr. H. T. Norton. Messrs. Watts, Watts & Co. Ltd., Cardiff.

Mr. W. H. Pilkington. Messrs. Pilkington Bros. Ltd., St. Helens, Lanes.

Mr. A. G. Stewart. Chairman, Messrs. Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd., Glasgow.

Sir Arthur Street, G.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., CLE., M.C. Deputy Chairman, National Coal Board.

Mr. J. W. J. Townley, C.B.E., M.I.E.E. West Ham Borough Electrical Engineer and Manager. Past President of Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association.

Domestic Consumers' Council.

Dame Vera Laughton Mathews, D.B.E. (Chairman). Former Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Mrs. C. Bamber. Past National President Women's Co-operative Guild (Newton Abbot, South Devon).

Councillor E. J. Baxter, O.B.E. Member of Watford Borough Council. For the past six years Chairman of the South Herts Joint Committee for Domestic Fuels.

Mr. J. Charrington. Senior Vice-President, Coal Merchants' Federation of Great Britain and Chairman of Charrington, Gardner, Locket & Co. Ltd.

Mr G. Chester, C.B.E. National Union of Boot & Shoe Operatives.

* Mr. McPhail has since left the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and has been succeeded by Mr. Wm. Fergusson.

Mrs. C. Cook. General Secretary, Women's Co-operative Guild; Vice-Chairman, Standing Joint Committee of Working Women's Organisations (Leman Street, London, E.I).

Mr. J. O. Cooke. Adviser to the National Federation of Gas Coke Associations and General Manager of the London and Counties Coke Association.

Mr. J. E. Corrin. Transport and General Workers' Union.

Mr. B. T. Eccles, General Manager, Cardiff Branch of the C.W.S. Retail Co-operative Society. Member of the Executive of the Co-operative Coal Trade Association.

Mr. C. A. B. Elliott. Past President of the Coal Merchants' Federation of Great Britain. Director of Messrs. Ellis & Everard Ltd., Associated Companies, Leicester.

Mr. T. H. Gill. Director of the Co-operative Wholesale Society and a member of the Executive of the Co-operative Coal Trade Association and other bodies associated with the coal industry.

Mr. J. C. Gridley, C.B.E. Marketing Director, National Coal Board.

Miss R. Hands, B.A. Member of the Women's Advisory Committee on Solid Fuel, Electrical Association for Women and Women's Gas Council.

Mr. T. D. Hockings. Clerk to the Deben (Suffolk) Rural District Council.

Mr. D. J. Jones, O.B.E. Clerk to the Rhondda (Glamorganshire) Urban District Council. Chairman of the Executive Council of the Urban District Council's Association.

Councillor A. Lockwood. Member of the Reading Borough Council; Member of the Southern Sectional Co-operative Coal Trade Associations.

Alderman J. E. MacColl. Barrister. Leader of Paddington Borough Council.

Provost C. Minihan. Port Glasgow, Scotland.

Mrs. Robin Nixon, B.Sc. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Member of the Northumberland Federation of Women's Institutes.

Mr. S. N. Penlington, J.P. Member of the Urmston (Lancashire) Urban District Council for twenty years and Chairman of the Lancashire Urban District Councils Association, 1946–47.

Mrs. M. Pleydell-Bouverie. Member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Women and Chairman of the Council's Housing Sectional Committee.

Provost G. Ross. Vice-Convener of the East Lothian County Council. A retired miner.

Sir Arthur Street, G.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., C.I.E., M.C. Deputy Chairman, National Coal Board.

Professor D. T. A. Townend, D.Sc., Ph.D., D.I.C., F.R.I.C. Director of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association.

Mr. G. R. Walker. Ex-Chairman of the Rugby Rural District Council and Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Council.]

House adjourned at twelve minutes past seven o'clock.