News of the "directive" was broken at Thursday's meeting of Kincardine and Deeside District Council in Stonehaven.
Members of the A.T.B's executive are expected to convene today for a "where-do-we-go-from-here?" session, from which they hope to emerge with a suitable alternative.
The enforced change has been brought about not so much by the Queen, but by the Scottish Office, who advise the Monarch in such situations.
District Council Chief executive, Miss E. M. G. Cockburn said: "It appears from correspondence that the feelings of the Parliament to cut down extensive use of various names for companies and businesses, including Royal, Scottish etc, and the possibility that the naming of the A.T.B. as Royal Deeside and Kincardine Tourist Board, might lead to a proliferation of such names, have been the guiding principles in the Secretary of State for Scotland refusing to recommend the name."

50 Years Ago

Friday, May 2, 1958

KINCARDINE County Council decided on Wednesday to uphold a recommendation of the Planning Committee that he industrial site area at Spurryhillock be extended.
The extra ground required will be purchased by agreement with the owner.
Until there is development the ground will continue to be used for agricultural purposes.
Provost Ton Christie, Stonehaven, who moved in these terms at the Planning Committee, made a strong plea for the encouragement of industrial development.
He said that the whole matter was of major importance to Stonehaven and to the county of Kincardine.
"The position today is that the bulk of our workers have to travel to Aberdeen," he said.
"That means of course additional expense and a correspondingly lower standard of living. It is very much in the interests of Kincardine County Council to see Stonehaven as a thriving town."

100 Years Ago

Thursday, April 30, 1908

ONCE more the "innate Conservatism of Kincardineshire" as Mr Gammell expresses it, has triumphed, and Captain Murray, the Radical candidate, has been selected to fill the place of the late Mr J. W. Crombie.
The long struggle had many features new to an election campaign in the county.
Opening with what was likely to be a rupture in the Liberal ranks, the contest passed on to a stage of political oratory and stage declamation never before experienced in our history.
The presence of the suffragists, too, proved an unique factor in the struggle, and though their efforts apparently had little weight in influencing the male voters, they have educated the ladies in regard to their political rights, and no doubt the latter will watch with interest the attitude taken by the Premier and his party in their movement.