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MR. C. J. BARTLETT, managing director of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., has been re-elected president of the Luton and District Chamber of Commerce.
MR. A. G. PROBERT has relinquished his appointment with Garner Motors, Ltd., and taken up a position, in the Metropolitan traffic area, with John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.
Mn. J. AYRES, whose portrait appears on this page, has been appointed chief designer, lighting and
starting department, of Simms Motor Units, Ltd. He previously held the position of chief engineer, dynamo and meter departments, of Bryce, Ltd., Hackbridge, Surrey. He has travelled extensively in the course of his duties, having visited most of the leading engine makers at home and on the Continent.
MR, JOHN Hosisovn, whose portrait appears on this page, is one of the representatives of Fodens. Ltd., in the London area. His address is 36, Lankaster Gardens, East Finchley, N.2. He has already contacted with some of
the largest road-transport operators in the south, who are running Foden oilengined vehicles.
MR. A. Dr Josto, who has been joint managing director of Philips Lamps, Ltd., Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2, since its formation in 1925, is retiring at the end of this month.
Ma. A. L. Lure, electrical engineer in charge of power generation, and Mn. P. R. BOULTON, electrical engineer in charge of new works, have been made principal officers of London Transport.
MR. GEORGE A. Vownas, who has been manager and engineer of the Halifax electricity undertaking since 1924, has been appointed borough electrical engineer and transport manager at Ipswich.
MR. FRED PICKERING, honorary secretary of the Bradford and District Commercial Vehicle Owners' Federation, and of the Bradford Chamber of Trade, has been elected vice-chairman of the Bradford National Service Committee.
MR. F. J. BETTLEY, transport manager and registrar of W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., retired on January 31, after nearly 42 years' service with the company. He joined the Henley concern in 1897, and eventually took over duties in connection with shipping, which later developed into the transport department. MR. H. MURFIN has been appointed transport manager of the company.
MR. J. H. PARKER, M.I.E.E., has been appointed chief electrical engineer of London Transport. He served his engineering apprenticeship with Alley and McLellan, Ltd., of Glasgow, and after several electrical appointments, became, in 1925, general manager of the transport department of West HartlepOoi, where he was responsible for the complete change-over from tramways to trolleybuses. Mr. Parker has been responsible for the design and conversion of the overhead work in London for trolleybuses. He is vicechairman of the trolleybus committee of the British Electrical Development Association.
MR. STUART F. T. CHANDLER, Chief Road Engineer to the Government of Southern Rhodesia, was, in the New Year's Honours List, appointed an Officer of the British Empire. He has been responsible for the roads of Southern Rhodesia since 1925, and his name is associated with the strip roads and low-level bridges that have rendered possible the remarkable advance in road transport in that colony during the past decade. These conceptions, and the financial backing which he encouraged the Government to give, opened the whole colony to road transport, even during the wet season.