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MR, W. H. ROGERS has been appointed industrial sales manager of British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.
MR. ROBERT PAXTON, transport manager of West Calder Co-operative Society, Ltd., has retired after 48 years' service.
MR. LEONARD Roan, who recently left Motor Distributors, Ltd., has joined S. Hughes (Commercial), Ltd., Bradford, as sales representative.
Ms. H. F. DAY, managing director of the Willenhall Motor Radiator Co., Ltd., has succeeded the late MR. E. A. Cows as chairman of the company.
MR. ARTHUR ELLIOTT, traffic superintendent at Whitley Bay for United Automobile Services, Ltd., has been appointed traffic supervisor at Blyth.
MR. PETER L. WHITE has been placed in charge of trade sales of Brown and White (Leeds), Ltd., Ford main dealers. Mr. White is the elder son of MR. OSWALD L. WHITE, a joint governing director of the company.
MR. R, STARLING has been co-opted to the committee of the Midland Section of the Institute of Transport in place of the late MR. F. G. CHATF.R. Mr. Starling is Midlands distribution manager of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.
MR. ROBERT C. TURNER, general manager, motor group, Brown Bros., Ltd., left England last week for a fiveweek visit to America and Canada. He is studying the latest developments in accessories, spare parts and transport service equipment.
MAJ.'GEN. G. N. RUSSELL, general manager of British Road Services, has been appointed a member of the Eastern Area Board of the British Transport Commission. Other members are SIR REGINALD WILSON (chairman), SIR EDMUND BACON, MR. A. F. PEGLER, MR. J. B. PEILE, MR. JACK TANNER and MR. HENRY WILLTNK, Q.C.
MR. RICHARD R. LAW ION has been appointed general manager of the proposed new Irish Oil Refinery Co., Whitegate, County Cork. Mr, Lawton has been manager of the Limerick branch of the Irish B.P. Co., Ltd., an administrative assistant of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., in London, and general manager. Anglo-Beige des Petroles, Brussels.
Ma. R. G. F. GRIFFIN has been appointed to succeed MR. D. V. PRIOR as manager. overseas manufacturing, F. Perkins, Ltd. MR. J. TAVERNER, former deputy chief instructor or Perkins' instruction school at Peterborough, has been appointed to succeed MR. T. H. L. PARISH as chief instructor. Mr. Griffin will, for the tune being, continue as personal assistant (forward planning) to the deputy managing director. Mr. Parish has taken up an appointment in the sales division.
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MR. C. M. WOODBURN has succeeded MR. I. R. PA1EY as secretary of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. Woodburn vacates the post of secretary of Eastern Coach Works, Ltd., and Mr. Patey has become a director and general manager of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.
MR. W. A. STANDLEY, Of Chance Bros., Ltd., has been appointed chairman of the Birmingham Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association. The vice-chairmen are MR. J. C. H. ASTON, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., MR. J. W. G. BRAZ1LL, Mitchells and Butlers, Ltd., and MR. E. G. CARSON, Cadbury Bros., Ltd. MR, F. ASSINDER, Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., is honorary secretary. MR. J. DELICATE, Courtaulds, Ltd., is now chairman of the Coventry Area. The vice-chairmen are MR. J. H. HOLBROOK, Standard Motor Co., Ltd., and MR. G.MOUSLEY, Morton's (Coventry), Ltd.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the deaths of MR. HOWARD J. ASHBY, MR. 0; A. H. WILDF,, MR. HARilY CURRINGTON and MR. F. G. STEAD.
Mr. Ashby, who was 70, retired four years ago from his position as southern tyre sales manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
Mr. Wilde was director and works manager of William Arnold. Ltd., bodybuilders, Manchester, whom he served for 35 years. He was 62.
Mr. Currington was transport manager of the Sheepbridge concern of Chesterfield for 45 years. He was a founder-member of the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport and a member of the transport committee of the Mining Association and the Federation of British Industries. He was also chairman of the Traders' Traffic Conference for 19 years. He was 76.
Mr. Stead, who was 84, founded F. G. Stead and Son, Ltd., hauliers, Madeley.
NEW RULES ON USE OF MATES
THE Northern Ireland Arbitration Tribunal have drawn up new provisions governing the use of mates on Ulster Transport Authority lorries. Existing agreements and awards are superseded.
No mates il1 be provided by the Authority where assistance for loading and unloading is provided at the loading and unloading points.
With a few exceptions, mates will be employed on all lorries carrying livestock, and in Other cases where the load is made up of heavy and awkward units and no help is available at either end of the journey.
it is understood that a claim by the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union that mates should be provided on all lorries of 5-ton carrying capacity and over was not established by the Tribunal.