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• MR. W. P. HASTINGS has been appointed a director of Speciaildid, Lid.
• MR. P. a S. CLARK has been • appointed a director. of B.E.T.Ornñi
bus Services; Ltd.
• MR. CHARLES E. 1-1AYWARD hats become sales and publicity manager of Parrs (Leicester), Ltd., in Place of MR. FRANK WOOI LEV, who has gone to South Africa.
MR. W. PARKER, M.I.R.T.E., has been appointed transport superintendent for the Borough of East Ham. For 20 years he was mechanical superintendent at Stepney.
. MR. EDWARD H. RUNDLE, A.E.C. sales representative in East Anglia, has been appointed divisional manager for the East Midland sounties, with headquarters at Nottingham. He succeeds the late Mr. H. J. Voyce. During war service in the Army, Mr. Rundle reached the rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
MR. E. S. WILLIAMS has been appointed by the Road Transport Executive to be divisional staff and welfare officer, South Eastern Division (Freight). MR. W. C. WEBSTER has taken up a similar position in the Eastern Division, and MR. A. C. STEVENSON in the Midlands Division. MR. R. W. MILLER is appointed divisional surveyor, South Western Division (Freight), and MR. C. H. JENNENS becomes divisional traffic officer, Midland Division (Freight).
A38 MR. A. H.-L. Tikivirstk -Fadens, Ltd., is rapidly recovering' froth illness.
MR. S. 0. DAvms. has been elected president of the Institute of The Motor Industry for .1949-501 He will be installed at the annual general meeting on July. 7.
LORD LUCAS has agreed to serve on the honorary, advisory council of the Industrial Finishes Exhibition,. which is to be" held "'at Earls Court, -London, from August 31 to September 13.
MR. A LEX ANDER JOHNSTON, J.P., has been appointed chairman of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., and will continue as managing director. MR. DOUGLAS H. GORDON, -Works manager, has become a director in charge . of
production.
MR. G. F. HILL, a director of NorthEastern Export and Import Co., Ltd., Tynemouth, has left Britain for India, where he hopes to obtain orders for bikes to the value of £150,000. ,During the past year the company has exported about 100 buses to India.
Me. NORMAN PROCTOR, manager of the Dunlop Latin America division, will sail to Rio de Janeiro to-Morrow (January 22) to investigate marketing conditions in SouthAinerican countries and Trinidad. He will return frem New York in some three months.
SIR J. FREDERICK HEATON has resigned his seat as chairman of the board of Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. (now owned by the British Transport Commission). LORD HACKING and MR. R. M. MATHESON have also resigned from the board. MR. GEORGE CARDWELL, a member ,of the Road Transport Executive, has been elected a director and appointed chairman of the company.
MR. E. J." GREEN has been appointed sales manager by Brush Coachwork, Ltd_ and will be responsible for marketing Brush battery-electric vehicles. His headquarters will be at Loughborough. MR. R. E. R. HOSKINS has been appointed London sales manager, with headquarters at Dukes Court, Jermyn Street, SW.!. Mr. Hoskins has for some time been associated with the company's battery-electric division, but now extends his interests to cove; coachbuilding Me. MORRIS has been appointed directOr of technical, research and development of Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd. He was for many years manager of the -Crewe works of Rolls-Royce,
Ltd. .
MR. ROBERT MORTON MITCHELL,
D.P.A., has' been appointed chief executive officer and secretary of the Road Haulage Association. He is a Scottish solicitor, and was in local government from 1931-45, being town clerk of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, for four years.T-re then became general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Employers Association, and was active in negotiations with trade unions and arbitration before national tribunals. For the past year he'was secretary of the Relay Services Association.
MR. FRANK GILBERT, assistant secretary (staff and _establishment) of the • British Transport Commission's headquarters staff, will in future be known as principal staff officer. MR. M. R. torsiAviA, assistant secretary (works
• and development), now carries the title of principal works and development officer, add MR. M.'' A. CAMERON3 • assistant secretary (traffic), is known as " principal traffic officer. MR. R. BYRON' SCOTT and MR. D. ROBERTSON now carry the title of staff officer. Me. L. B. M ARSON and MR. R. B. LEW/S are to be known as Works officers," and
• MR, W. C. COLLINS, traffic officer. Responsibility and authority remain unchanged.