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• MR. R. A. CARY, M.P., has been appointed by Capt. Austin Hudson, M.P., Parliamentary. Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary, in place of Mr.. A. C. Crossley, M.P., who has resigned, MR, P. J. ARROW, A.M.I.A.E., A.S.A.E., a well-known London representative of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., will, as from January 1, 1939, assume control, with the title of London area manager, of a new sales area, stretching approximately from Bedford in the north to the Sussex coast towns, and from Oxford in the west to the Kentish coast towns. His appointment is part of a scheme whereby, in 1939, the company hopes to maintain closer contact with operators, particularly in the Metropolitan district and certain of the home counties_ Mr. Arrow joined the A.E.C. organization in 1920; when he was placed in charge of a fleet of travelling service vans which was then being operated. A year later he was transferred to the sales department, in which, during the past 10 years, he has held various positions. .
Serving under him will he MR. C. C. BATESON, who has been an A.E.C. outside representative for the spare-parts department since 1935, and MR. N. G. HARDIE., a nephew of the late Mr. Norman A. Hardie, who was general manager (sales) of the company. In his speech at the recent annual general meeting of Transpnrt Services, Ltd., the chairman expressed his appreciation of the work done by the managing directors, CAPTAIN C. BARRINGTON and. MR. S. ROYLE, also that of officials directly under them, whom, he feared, were set a very hot pace.
Mu. R. C. GIGGLNS has recently been appointed to the administrative staff of the Government and railways department of the General Electric Co., Ltd. He has been with the company for 24 years and, since 1929, has acted as general manager of the company's organization in Malaya.
MR. C. PRESC07, who, for a number of years, has been on the sales staff of Appleyard of Leeds, Ltd., a distributor of Morris-Commercial products, is leaving the company's retail selling department, and has been appointed to look after the trade side of its distributorship in the important area which the concern covers.
MR. GEORGE. E. WINDELER, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., of Manchester, has been elected to succeed Mr. T. Hornbuckle, B.Sc., Assoc.M, Inst.C.E., as president of the Diesel Engine Users Association for the ensuing year. Mr. A. K. Bruce and Major A. T. Evans are succeeded by MR. STERRY B. FREEMAN and MR, A. J. OATES as members of the general corn. mittee.
MR. L. C. FrrzGERALio has been appointed production manager at the new assembly plant of General Motors, Ltd., at Southampton New Docks. He has been in the motor trade since 1915, joining General Motors Export in 1926. He was later appointed works manager in Berlin and then Brazil. For Some time subsequently he was in Detroit, and more recently in New Zealand.
Included amongst the first officers of the newly inaugurated Lubrication Group of the Institute of Petroleum Technologists is MR. S. E. BOWREY, B.Sc., F.I.C. Mr. Bowrey is a director and chief chemist of Alexander Duckham and Co,, Ltd.; in fact, he has been in the latter position for the past 28 years, and has been largely responsible for several interesting developments, includingthe introduction of " Acleoidized " oils.