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MR. L. G. HIND has been made a director of the Car Collection Co., Ltd.
MR. R. W. HANSON has succeeded M.I. J. E. HANSON as a director of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd.
• MR. H. E.-OSBORN has replaced MR. J. C. CHAMBERS as a director of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd.
MR. D. W. POUNDER, of the Dunlop general development division, has left for Malaya to become assistant director of research.
MR. H. A. BURLEIG14, North Scottish representative of the Vacuum Oil Co.. Ltd., recently received a presentation to mark his 40-year association with the company.
MR. J. R. SEDGWICK is IO become Laycock representative in country to the west of London, bounded by Portsmouth, Reading and Brighton. MR. R. J. Fos-rot, assisted by MR. R. STEVENS. now covers central London.
MR. W. K. FERGUSON, a representative of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber 'Co., Ltd., in Scotland, has retired after 20 years' service. He has opened a business at Prestwick. His successor is MR. J. LACY.
Ma. E. M. BALDWIN has been Apixated service supervisor of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., in succession to Mr. Walter Parsons, who died recently. Mr. Baldwin became deputy service supervisor on the discontinuance of the Dunlop road transport division.
COL. R. T. Gardsrritam has left the Brockhouse Organization on being appointed managing director of Overseas Motor Transport, Ltd, Nairobi. MR. B. J. TAMS, M.Sc., has been appointed general manager of ,Brockhouse Engineering (Southport), Ltd. MR. H. MILNES has been made general manager of the Brockhouse Organization's works at Wolverhampton.
Ma. .1. N. BAMFORTH, B.A., yesterday took up the appointment of welfare officer at the headquarters of the Road Haulage Executive. He is a barrister and has had long experience of adult education and staff training. MR. A. E. JGREATOREX will, on January 1, become divisional stores officer for the Western Division of the Executive. He was formerly chief stores officer of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd.
MR. D. G. Swims, A.M.1.Mech.E., S.A.E., export manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been appointed general sales manager. He will control sales activities at home and overseas. Mr. Stokes is 35 years of age, and under his direction, the company's export division has year after year broken its own export sales records. He joined the company in 1930 as an engineering apprentice. During the war he was assistant director of mech a32 anical engineering (technical) with the Central Mediterranean Forces, and held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Ma._ A. W. LAWSON, C.B.E., a director of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., has retired after 44 years with the company and its predecessors. He WaS
closely associated with the bulk-distribution methods evolved to cater for the huge demand for petroleum products which began after the first great war. From 1921 he was mainly responsible for the new supply system involving large oil installations and road tankers operating from a network of depots. During the recent war he was chief operating officer of the Petroleum Board, which he largely planned.