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MR. H. C. 13s1GEhrr has retired from the board of the A.P.V. Co., Ltd.
MR. I. C. DEAN has succeeded MR. J. S. VESEY BROWN as a director of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.
MR. R. D. FRYER, assistant registrar, has succeeded MR. E. J. P. TAYLOR as registrar of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. C. W. REEVE. one of the original directors of Associated Commercial Vehicles .Ltd., will retire at the company's annual meeting on January z.s.
SIR STANFORD COOPER has retired from the board of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., having been appointed a permanent lay member of the Restrictive Practices Court.
MR. E. A. BOYD has been appointed local director at Aldershot for the Hastemere Motor Co., Ltd. MR. G. SPOONER becomes retail sales manager in the isle of Wight for Wadhams, Ltd.
MR. CHARLES LISTER, managing director of Lister Equipment, Ltd., Manchester, is in the U.S.A. studying accessory distribution and American developments in vehicle production and cleansing.
MR. CHARLES F. CLEAVER has retired from the boards of A.C.V. Sales, Ltd.,
and British United Traction, Ltd. He had been with the A.C.V. group for 34 years, mainly occupied with the design and production of unconventional vehicles.
MR. S. R. TuomissoN, assistant sales .manager of Lodge Plugs, Ltd., has retired after more than 30 years with the company. He is succeeded by MR. PETER C. PAGE, a former managing
• director of the Lodge Spark Plug Co., \ Los Angeles.
MR. R. F. GODDEN has been appointed lubricants manager of the National Benzole Co., Ltd., succeeding Ma. C. W. HARRISON, who has retired. MR. L. H. Cuscrts beccmes special trades assistant manager, and MR. E. J. DREW assistant staff manager.
MR. VEBOAH AFARI, Ghanaian Minister of Communications and Transport, last week visited the Aldenham bus overhaul works of the London Transport Executive, together with MR. AMUAKA Ana, his Parliamentary Secretary. They were accompanied by MR. A. S. TAME, the works superintendent.
MR. G. E. WOOD has been appointed sales manager for the wheeled vehicles division of J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd., West Bromwich. Representation in other areas is now: Scotland and North-east England, MR. A. B. GOWAN and MR. G. F. Auts'Esv: North-west, MR. W. BIRCH; Midlands, MR. E. C. JOHNSON and MR. S. S. Huasr; London. MR. L. J. HussEy and Mr. F. STRAY; South-west, MR. D. BOXALL MR. C. WRIGGLESWORTH, assistant traffic manager of East Midland Motor Services, Ltd.. has retired.
MR. WILLIAM S. FAIRBAIRN has been appointed area representative for Kent and Sussex by the Weaver Manufacturing and Engineering Co., Ltd.
MR. W. E. G. HEWINGS, secretary of the executive works committee of London Transport, has been promoted principal executive assistant.
SIR RONALD THORNBURY GARRETT, a shipping expert, has been appointed chairman of the Central Transport Consultative Committee for the next three years.
MR. J. HUGH NEILL, deputy chairman of James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., steel and Eclipse tool manufacturers, is to make a nine-week global business tour beginning on January 22.
MR. WILLIAM ANCLIFFE, a Sheffield bus driver, has been appointed to the National Joint Industrial Council, representing the trade union side of the municipal passenger transport industry.
MR. W. Scurf has taken control of a new national sales accounts department set up by the North British Rubber Co., Ltd. He is replaced as tyre sales manager (domestic replacement) by MR. F. M. ROODHOUSE.
MR. B. R. W. JACKSON, Of Boston, Lincs, has been awarded a George Kenning Scholarship by the Institute of the Motor Industry Educational Trust. The scholarship is tenable at the College of Technology, Loughborough.
MR. J. A. C. WILLIAMS has been appointed principal of the College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering. He was formerly head of the engineering section of the National Coal Board's industrial training branch.
SIR REGINALD ROOTES, deputy chairman of the Rootcs Group, left London by air on Monday for a six-week world tour, beginning at Beirut. He will visit also Pakistan, Singapore, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand. Honolulu, Canada and America.
MR. E. B. JAMES will become chief purchasing officer of the B.E.T. Federation, Ltd., on February 1, succeeding MR. K. C. WHEATLEY, Who is to retire at the end of March. Mr. James was purchasing manager of Petrofina (Gt. Britain), Ltd., until he joined the Federation last September.
MR. A. J. BURTON and MR. T. A. E. LAYBORN have become directors of the Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. Mr. Burton is responsible for production at Longbridge and at the B.M.C. factories of the Tractors and Transmission Branch. Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., Morris Motors Engine Branch, and Nuffield Tools and Gauges. 1.td