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GEN. SIR BRIAN ROBERTSON has now assumed his position as chairman of the British Transport Commission.
MR. J. R. M. WILLIAMS has been appointed Northern Ireland regional sales manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., in succession to the late MR. C. R. Ctursom.
MR. J. H. CLEMENT has been appointed private secretary to Mr.' Hugh Molson, the new Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
MR. ALONZO LIMB, deputy chairman and managing direetor of C. C. Wake-' field and Co., Ltd., broke his thigh bone. last week, On the eve of leaving hospital. after a period of convalescence: MR. W. LYONS, chairman and managing director of Jaguar Cars, Ltd.. has succeeded SIR REGINALD RogrEs, deputy chairman of the Rootes Group, as president of the Motor Industry Research Association.
MR. G. SHEARMUR and MR. T. J. SACK, A,M.I.E.E., have been appointed to the board of Ceag, Ltd. Mr. Shearmur was for many years managing director of Scintilla, Ltd., and Mr. Sack is an ex-works superintendent of the Osram-G.E.C. lamp works.
MR. RORER W. WHALE, sale: manager of Halls (Finchley), Ltd., ha! been appointed sales manager of B.W (Diesel Distributors) Pty., Ltd., Seddor .distributors for South Africa. He wil be taking control of sales and servic4 from the Durban branch in January 1954.
U.N. ON TRANSPORT POLICY
AT the January, 1954, session of th. United Nations inland transpor committee, there will be submitted . report of the work done by three work ing parties which have been studyin the essential elements of a genera transport policy.
These parties have been dealing wit the problem of bringing about health competition among various modes c transport so operated as to achiev financial equilibrium by means of rate based on costs.
MUTUAL INTERESTS
ARRANGEMENTS are being mad for representatives of the Society c Motor Manufacturers and Traders t meet officials of the Passenger Transpo Association to discuss tF question of co-operation. . spokesman of the told The Commercial Mon that such meetings were he' fairly regularly to discu " mutual problems." He wou not disclose the problen currently pending discussic between the two bodies.