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Economic Development Committees (Membership)

Volume 897: debated on Thursday 7 August 1975

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asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the chairmen and members of each of the Economic Development Committees, stating the relevant qualifications of each member.

Following is the information asked for:ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEESAGRICULTURE

Chairman

His Grace The Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC, TD, FRS.

Members

S. L. Aldous, District Officer, Agricultural Section, Transport and General Workers Union.

Sir Alex Alexander, Chairman, Imperial Foods Ltd.

S. T. Beach, NEDO.

J. L. Blackley, JP, Vice-Chairman, West Cumberland Farmers; Past President, National Farmers Union for Scotland.

R. N. Bottini, CBE, General Secretary, National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

Professor D. K. Britton, Professor of Agricultural Economics, School of Rural Economics and Related Studies, Wye College (University of London).

Dr. W. O. Brown, Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.

G. H. B. Cattell, Director-General, National Farmers Union.

J. A. Davies, Council Member, National Farmers Union.

F. C. de Paula, CBE, TD, Managing Director, AMC Limited.

J. Douglas, Secretary-General, Country Landowners Association.

W. H. Gilliland, General Secretary, Ulster Farmers Union.

B. Gordon, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland.

B. Hazell, CBE, JP, President, National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

G. B. Heywood, MBE, President, Country Landowners' Association.

Sir Henry Plumb, President, National Farmers Union.

Sir Nigel Strutt, TD, DL, Chairman, Advisory Council for Agriculture and Horticulture.

J. J. Waterman, National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

Sir Gwilym T. Williams, CBE, Former President, National Farmers Union.

D. F. Williamson, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Professor A. Winegarten, CBE, Deputy Director-General, National Farmers Union.

BUILDING

Chairman

I. H. Davison (Acting).

Members

K. T. Barnett, Department of the Environment.

P. N. Gerosa, Department of the Environment.

J. T. Caff, HM Treasury.

R. Foster, Foster Melbourn Holdings Ltd.

I. H. Davison, Partner, Arthur Andersen & Co.

A. G. R. Gater, NEDO.

M. J. Grafton, OBE, Director, National Federation of Building Trades Employers.

G. Henderson, Transport and General Workers Union (Building and Construction Group).

R. Hermon, Director, National Council of Building Material Producers.

G. Lloyd, Executive Council Member, Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians.

C. Lovell, Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.

D. C. Mallam, Director, Federation of Associations of Specialists and sub-Con tractors.

J. G. McLean, Independent consultant, building industry.

S. Neuman, Andrews-Weatherfoil Ltd.

J. Rowe, Deputy Chairman, The London Brick Co. Ltd.

F. Shrosbree, Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians.

G. F. Smith, CBE, General Secretary, Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians.

J. Westacott, John Mowlem & Co. Ltd.

Sir Hugh Wilson, OBE, Hugh Wilson & Lewis Womersley.

G. Wood, Senior Partner, Ove Arup & Partners.

Sir Kenneth Wood, KB, Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Concrete Ltd.

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Chairman

Lord Allen of Fallowfield, CBE, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

Members

J. M. G. Andrews, William Brandt's Sons & Co. Ltd.

J. R. Bradley, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

J. T. Caff, H. M. Treasury.

Professor J. H. Dunning, University of Reading, Department of Economics.

J. C. G. Halley, NEDO.

J. S. Hunter, BP Chemicals International.

D. Godfrey, Regional Director, The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

Dr. H. M. Kimberley, Albright & Wilson Ltd.

E. Linton, EETU/PTU.

D. W. Livingstone, Albright & Wilson Ltd.

A. McIntosh, BP Chemicals International Ltd.

J. Miller, Transport & General Workers Union.

R. W. Pennock, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

M. E. O'K. Trowbridge, Chemical Industries Association Ltd.

D. Warburton, General & Municipal Workers Union.

S. Williams, Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers.

A. S. Woodhams, OBE, Fisons Ltd.

DISTRIBUTIVE TRADES

Chairman

Sir Daniel Pettit, The National Freight Corporation.

Members

The Rt. Hon. Lord Allen of Fallowfield, CBE, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

Mrs. J. Archer, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection. A. J. Barnsley, Debenhams Ltd., Department Store Division.

J. G. F. Bellamy, Electrical Wholesalers Federation.

J. H. Bradfield, Bishop's Stores Ltd.

C. S. Cullimore, J. H. Dewhurst Ltd.

J. Flood, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

Miss M. E. Head, OBE, Chairman of Board of Management, National Chamber of Trade. H. F. Heinemann, Department of Trade.

D. R. Hunter, CBE, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

I. C. MacLaurin, Tesco Stores (Holdings) Ltd.

W. E. Mason, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

J. R. Perring, Perrings Furnishings Ltd.

L. O. Rice, The Burton Group Ltd.

D. M. Shalit, Charterhouse Japhet Ltd.

Miss R. Stephen, MBE, Association of Professional & Executive Staff.

Mrs. P. Turner, General & Municipal Workers Union.

J. A. Van Ryssen, MBE, Transport & General Workers Union.

P. F. D. Wallis, NEDO.

G. A. Watts, The Littlewoods Organisation Ltd.

W. T. Welch, OBE, Reteired, Lately Vice-Chairman, Co-operative Wholesale Society.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Chairman—Vacant.

Members

C. S. Aston, JP, Director, Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd.

J. W. Baxter, Senior Partner, G. Maunsell & Partners.

W. Bradley, National Officer, General & Municipal Workers Union.

J. T. Caff, HM Treasury.

J. Charnley, John Laing Construction Ltd.

A. G. R. Cater, NEDO.

D. V. Gaulter, Director, Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors.

P. N. Gerosa, Department of the Environment.

J. Heapy, Executive Council Member, Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians.

M. Jenkins, Deputy Chairman, Rugby Portland Cement Co.

L. C. Kemp, Secretary, Civil Engineering Construction Conciliation Board—Operative Side, TGWU.

R. J. McAlpine, Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd.

D. G. McGarey, OBE. Associate, Peter Fraenkel & Partners.

M. Milne, Deputy Director General, Highways (1), Department of the Environment.

A. T. B. Shand, Chairman and Managing Director, Lehane Mackenzie and Shand Ltd.

F. H. Sullivan, A. Monk & Co. Ltd. H. A. Whitson, OBE, Director, Melville Dundas & Whitson Ltd.

Professor T. E. H. Williams, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton.

CLOTHING INDUSTRY

Chairman

P. Parker, MVO, Chairman, Rockware Group Ltd.

Members

W. E. Aston, Chairman, Wear-Well Overall Co. Ltd.

W. C. Beattie, Managing Director, Carrington Viyella Ltd. (Outerwear Division).

A. G. R. Gater, NEDO. J. Gratwick, Executive Vice Chairman, Empire Stores (Bradford).

D. M. J. Gwinnell, Department of Industry, Chemicals and Textiles Division 2.

R. D. H. Harmer, Chairman; F. W. Harmer & Co. Ltd.

H. G. Jacoby, Managing Director, Jacoby & Bratt Ltd

J. Lyons, Chairman, Jack Lyons (1955) Ltd. J. Macgougan, General Secretary, National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.

L. A. Matthews, NUTGW (retired Assistant General Secretary).

P. L. McConnell, Retired. Lately Director, Kayser Bondor Ltd.

L. J. Mintz, Chairman, Louis J. Mintz Son & Partners Ltd.

P. Potts, National Officer, NUTGW.

S. R. Rawson, OBE, Retired. Lately Chairman, United Drapery Stores Tailoring Ltd.

A. R. Smith, Assistant General Secretary, NUTGW.

J. Steinberg, Chairman. Steinberg Group Ltd.

N. F. Sussman, Director, L. S. & J. Sussman.

H. R. Windle, NEDO, Industrial Adviser.

THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY

Chairman

G. H. Doughty, Retired. Lately General Secretary of Technical and Supervisory Section, AEUW.

Members

G. W. Barlow, Chairman & Chief Executive, Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Ltd.

F. Briggs, General Secretary, National Society of Metal Mechanics.

D. C. Clark, Department of Industry.

Dr. P. L. Cook, Reader in Economics, University of Sussex.

G. T. Coughtrie, Director & Chairman of the Management Board, Reyrolle Parsons Ltd.

S. Davison, Assistant General Secretaiy, ASTMS.

M. Edwardes, Chairman and Chief Executive, Chloride Group Ltd.

L. Formby, No. 25 Divisional Organiser, AUEW (TASS).

P. Smith, Regional Officer, G & MWU.

J. D. Johnson, Managing Director & Chief Executive, Tube Investments Ltd.

N. Koomans, Director, Phillips Industries Ltd.

J. D. Lapish, Executive Secretary, APEX.

Lord Nelson of Stafford, Chairman, General Electric & English Electric Co's, Ltd.

C. H. Broughton Pipkin. CBE, Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive, BICC Ltd.

E. A. Roberts, Assistant General Secretary, AUEW.

R. Sanderson, National Officer, EETPU.

J. Service, General Secretary, Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions.

G. Stebbing, Chief Executive, BEAMA.

T. Sullivan. National Officer, T & GWU.

A. R. E. Swannack, Director and Head of Industrial Relations Division, Inbucon/AIC Ltd.

N. J. Winnett, Managing Director, Creda Electric Ltd.

F. H. Wood, Director, Hawker-Siddeley Group Ltd.

J. B. Wormall, Chairman, Lawrence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd.

J. C. G. Halley, NEDO.

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY

Chairman

Roy Wright, CBE, Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd.

Members

J. C. Akerman, Mullard Ltd.

F. A. Baker, G & MWU.

T. A. Breakell, EETPU.

J. R. Brinkley, Redifon Ltd.

Michael Clark, The Plessey Co.

A. Deutsch, CBE, Thorn Electrical Industries

Ltd. R. H. C. Foxwell, CBE, Marconi Instruments

Ltd. J. T. Griffiths, Pye of Cambridge Ltd.

E. A. Hammond, EETPU. R. Hardie, AUEW (TASS).

F. Howell, T & GWU.

M. P. Lam, Department of Industry.

G. R. Lloyd, AUEW. H. Lord, AUEW.

L. R. Price, CBE, Honeywell Ltd.

J. M. Price, CBE, GEC Telecommunications Ltd.

T. Sullivan, T & GWU.

E. A. Webb, Post Office Engineering Union.

E. Willis-Jones, Thorn Electrical Ltd.

FERROUS FOUNDRIES

Chairman

K. G. Corfield, Managing Director, Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd.

Members

D. J. Atkin, Director, Stanton & Staveley Group, British Steel Corporation.

J. Bradshaw, Chairman, National Executive Council, AUEW, Foundry Section.

A. Bretherton, National Organiser, AUEW, Engineering Section.

S. L. Finch, CBE, Deputy Chairman, The Weir Group.

R. Garland, General Secretary, AUEW, Foundry Section.

A. Gray, Department of Industry, Industrial Development Unit.

D. T. Kershaw, Managing Director, Modern Foundries, Division of Staveley Machine Tools Ltd.

W. Lapworth, South Midlands Divisional Officer, T&GWU.

I. F. Ley, Managing Director, Leys Malleable Castings Ltd.

R. L. Long, Department of Industry.

I. A. Menzies, Managing Director, North British Steel Group Ltd.

J. H. D. Pearce, Marketing Director, Bir-mid Qualcast (Foundries) Ltd.

A. D. Reddrop, NEDO.

J. Semple, Regional Officer, G&MWU.

S. Smith, Managing Director, Glynwed Foundries Ltd.

HOTEL AND CATERING

Chairman

R. A. Huskisson, Lloyd's Register of Shipping.

Members

E. Bernard, Managing Director, Hotel Divi sion, Grand Metropolitan Ltd.

Group Captain B. G. Carfoot, OBE, Allied Breweries Ltd.

D. Durban, Director and Group Company Secretary, Trust Houses Forte Ltd.

A. G. da Costa, Chairman & Managing Director, Empire Catering Co. Ltd.

Mrs. D. L. Hatfield, MBE, Member of Executive Committee, Hotel Catering and Institutional Management Association.

H. E. Hunter Jones, MC, TD, DL, MA, Director of Licensed Houses, Bass Marketing Ltd.

J. Robinson, West Country Tourist Board.

Miss F. M. Cowell, Senior Catering Adviser, Department of Education & Science.

J. R. Catford, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.

M. E. Pulvermacher, Department of Trade.

L. H. Watson, Union of Shop Distributive & Allied Workers.

B. Dix, Public Relations Officer & Assist ant General Secretary, National Union of Public Employees.

J. Pedley, National Officer, T&GWU.

R. Smith, National Industrial Officer, G&MWU.

Professor S. Medlik, Head of Department of Hotel and Catering Management, University of Surrey.

Sir Mark Henig, Chairman, English Tourist Board.

J. J. D. Inglis, Director, McTavish's Kitchens (Oban) Ltd.

S. Beach, NEDO.

INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT MOVEMENT

Chairman

Lord Hayter, Chairman, Chubb & Son's Lock & Safe Co., Ltd.

Members

S. M. A. Banister, Department of the Environment.

H. Burton, NEDO.

A. H. Cave, MBE, Lewis & Peat (Overseas) Ltd.

E. P. Chappell, Chairman, National Ports Council.

J. H. Collier-Wright, CBE, Deputy Managing Director, British Transport Docks Board.

J. Cousins, National Secretary, Public Services & Civil Air Transport Group T&GWU.

T. M. Cronin, National Officer, Docks & Waterways Group, T&GWU.

J. K. Dick, CBE, Chairman, Mitchell Cotts Group Ltd.

R. H. Farmer, CBE, Chairman, Atlas Express Co. Ltd.

J. M. Fetherston, Chief Executive, Thomas Meadows & Co., Ltd.

T. H. Goff, Research Officer, The Merchant Navy & Airline Officers' Association.

R. J. C. Hill, Helical Bar Ltd.

A. Kitson, Exeutive Officer, T&GWU.

E. A. Knight, Board of Customs & Excise.

A. J. Macintosh, Associated Container Transportation (Australia) Ltd.

D. McKenna, CBE, Member of the British Railways Board.

K. A. Murphy, General Secretary, Radio & Electronic Officers' Union.

R. A. Raven, Director General, SITPRO Board.

D. N. Royce, Department of Trade.

R. L. Spruhan, National Secretary, National Union of Seamen.

S. Weighell, General Secretary, National Union of Railwaymen.

S. F. Wheatcroft, OBE, Deputy Managing Director, British Airways Board.

MACHINE TOOLS

Chairman

A. F. Frodsham, Director General, Engineering Employers' Federation.

Members

S. Baker, Department of Industry.

H. O. Barrett, Director General, Machine Tool Trades Association.

R. Birch, Executive Councilman, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Engineering Section.

A. Bottomley, MBE, Regional Officer, AUEW, Engineering Section.

H. Burton, NEDO.

D. N. Byrne, Department of Industry.

B. P. Dyer, Director, Manufacturing Planning, Perkins Engines Group Ltd.

A. M. G. Galliers-Pratt, Chairman, F. Pratt Engineering Corporation Ltd.

W. T. Lees, Chief Executive, Machine Tool Manufacturing Co., Tube Investment Ltd.

C. R. Lloyd, National Organiser, AUEW, Engineering Section.

P. B. Norton, Director, W. E. Norton (Holdings) Ltd.

W. L. Sims, OBE, Chairman, Wadkin Ltd.

S. F. Steward, CBE, Retired, lately British Electrical & Allied Manufacturers Association Ltd.

G. W. J. Trowbridge, CBE, Deputy Managing Director, Wickman Ltd.

C. H. Urwin, Assistant General Secretary, T&GWU.

Sir Jack Wellings, CBE, Chairman and Managing Director, The George Cohen 600 Group Ltd.

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION

Chairman

J. E. Mortimer, Conciliation and Arbitration

Service.

Members

J. Anderson, George Wimpey Ltd.

P. W. Bell, Assistant Director, Engineering Employers Federation.

F. Elliott, Assistant General Secretary, National Union of Sheet Metal Workers Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers.

E. D. Causey, Chief Construction Manager, The Lummus Co. Ltd.

C. H. Clarke, Managing Director, Haden Young Ltd.

F. Cottam, National Industrial Officer, G&MWU.

T. Crispin, National Secretary, Power and Engineering Group, T&GWU.

N. G. Derby, Redpath Dorman Long (Contracting) Ltd.

L. K. Dixon, Executive Councilman, AUEW.

N. A. Eldred, GEC Power Engineering Ltd.

T. N. C. Garfit, Oil and Chemical Plant Constructors Association.

D. D. N. Graham, Head of Training Planning Engineering Industry Training Board.

E. A. B. Hammond, Executive Councillor, Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.

I. A. Hutchison, Construction Manager, Engineering Department, BP Trading Limited.

A. I. Johnstone, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Agricultural Division.

D V. Kennedy-McGregor, Manager, Development Section, Industrial Relations Department, British Steel Corporation.

P. S. Linklater, Director, Shell (UK) Ltd.

C. Lovell, Plumbing Secretary, Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.

P. McAish, Director of Construction, Babcock & Wilcox Operations Ltd., Construction Division.

E. Marsden, General Secretary, Constructional Section, AUEW.

D. G. Marshall, Divisional Adviser for Industrial Relations, Central Electricity Generating Board, General Development and Construction Division.

J. G. Murray, Executive Council Member, Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers.

E. Norcross, Department of Employment.

E. A. Pollock, Deputy Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Crown House Engineering Ltd.

A. M. Sherman, Group Industrial Relations Manager, R. Blackett Charlton & Co. Ltd.

B. Taylor, Department of the Environment.

F. Warren (temporary stand-in), Department of Industry.

A. D. Reddrop, NEDO.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Chairman

Dr. F. E. Jones, MBE, FRS, Philips Electronic & Associated Industries Ltd.

Members

J. Ashfield, Executive Councillor, Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.

G. S. Bain, Director, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick.

S. Baker, Department of Industry.

D. C. Bamford, CBE, Chairman, Porter Chadburn Ltd.

J. F. M. Braithwaite, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Baker Perkins Ltd.

K. Brett, Assistant General Secretary, AUEW.

F. Briggs, Retired from National Society of Metal Mechanics.

D. N. Byrne, Department of Industry.

J. T. Caff, HM Treasury.

J. Chalmers, General Secretary, Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths & Structural Workers.

G. Eastwood, General Secretary, Associa tion of Patternmakers & Allied Craftsmen.

J. M. Harrison, Chairman, Pegler-Hattersley Ltd.

Professor J. B. Heath, Professor of Economics, London Graduate School of Business Studies.

Professor W. B. Heginbotham, Professor of Production Engineering, University of Nottingham.

J. Higham, MBE, Member of Executive Council CSEU; General Secretary, National Union of Domestic Appliances & General Metal Workers.

R. McCusker, Assistant General Secretary, ASTMS.

C. D. MacQuaide, Director, Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd.

V. E. Price, Managing Director, Eureka Engineering Co. Ltd.

J. F. Stafford, NEDO.

J. M. Service, OBE, General Secretary, Confederation of Shipbiulding and Engineering Unions.

D. A. Smith, Chairman, Hamworthy Engineering Ltd.

R. C. Whalley, Managing Director, Millspaugh Ltd.

MOTOR VEHICLE DISTRIBUTION AND REPAIR

Chairman

A. D. Gordon, Coopers & Lybrand.

Members

M. H. G. Bradstock, Umeco Holdings Ltd.

A. Bretherton, AUEW.

W. R. G. Bell, Department of Industry.

H. Burton, NEDO.

A. C. Clark, Chairman, R. H. Colliers.

F. W. Cottam, G & MWU.

A. J. R. Cormack, James Ross & Sons (Motors) Ltd.

P. N. Davies, Chairman, Allied Bakeries Ltd.

H. F. Ellis-Rees, Department of the Environment.

A. M. Evans, T & GWU.

K. D. Evans, Managing Director, Evans and Cutler Ltd.

K. D. Halley, Halleys of Milngavie.

F. E. Higham, OBE, Director General, Motor Agents Association.

G. A. Norris, OBE, Independent consultant, small garages.

W. H. Peacey, National Union of Vehicle Builders.

E. H. Robinson, Deputy Chairman, Leslie Hartridge Ltd.

D. A. W. Swanick, Affiliated Factors Ltd.

E. W. Gordon, NEDO.

SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPREPAIRING

Chairman

G. Gilbertson, CBE, Retired. Lately Personnel Manager, ICI.

Members

W. Austin, Executive Councilman, Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians.

F. A. Baker, National Industrial Officer, National Union of General & Municipal Workers.

C. H. Baylis, CB, Director, Shipbuilders and Repairers National Association.

A. R. Belch, CBE, Managing Director, Scott Lithgow Group.

L. W. Buck, General Secretary, National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating & Domestic Engineers.

H. A. Butt, Price Waterhouse & Co.

J. G. Day, Managing Director and Chief Executive. Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd.

R. M. D. Dunston, OBE, Chairman, Richard Dunston Ltd.

L. F. Edmondson, Executive Councilman, AUEW.

A. M. Evans, National Organiser, T & GWU.

A. Foulds, Managing Director, Charles Hill & Sons Ltd.

K. Gill, General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Technical & Supervisory Section.

L. Gregory, National Officer, Electrical, Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing Union.

H. J. Gummer, Department of Industry.

Professor C. Kuo, Department of Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture, University of Strathclyde.

D. McGarvey, CBE, General President, Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Ship wrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers.

F. McGuffy, Divisional Executive Officer, Electrical, Electronic Telecommunications & Plumbing Union.

T. Mclver, CBE, Managing Director, Swan Hunter Group.

E. V. Marchant, Department of Industry.

C. H. Parker, Managing Director, John G. Kincaid & Co. Ltd.

A. Reddrop, NEDO.

Sir Leonard Redshaw, Chairman, Shipbuilding Group, Vickers Ltd.

G. A. Robinson, Chairman, North East Coast Shiprepairers Ltd.

J. M. Service, General Secretary, Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

J. Wright, Chairman and Managing Director, Hall Russell & Co. Ltd.

WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Chairman

T. C. Fraser, CB, MBE, TD, Advice Centre Organisation for Industrial and Commercial Representation.

Members

J. D. Bradbury, DFC, Managing Director, J. Bradbury & Co. (Saddleworth) Ltd.

M. H. E. Dracup, Managing Director, Sir James Hill & Sons Ltd.

F. Dyson, General Secretary, National Union of Dyers, Bleachers & Textile Workers

M. P. Fox, Chairman/Joint Managing Director, Fox Brothers & Co. Ltd.

A. G. R. Gater, NEDO.

D. M. J. Gwinnell, Department of Industry, Chemicals & Textiles Division 2.

C. Hill, CBE, Vice-Chairman, Illingworth Morris & Co. Ltd.

C. N. Jupp, CMG, Director, British Textile Confederation.

J. Kitchen, JP, Regional Organiser, G & MWU.

F. B. Murgatroyd, Managing Director, Henry Lister & Sons Ltd.

N. Newton, MBE, JP, General Secretary, National Woolsorters Society.

R. V. Stroud, JP, Chairman, Stroud Riley & Co., Ltd.

D. H. Thorburn, Director, Roberts, Thor- burn & Noble Yarns, Ltd.