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MR. H. W. Itivitiu, chief engineer of Champion Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., has been appointed a director.
MR. STANLEY S. DAWES has been re-elected president of the Institute of the Motor Industry. MR. A. FRASER DURD1N is chairman.
MR. C. T. JormsoN, divisional motor engineer of Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where there are over 200 vehicles, has retired.
MAJ.-GEN. SIR RICHARD LEWIS, MR. EDGAR W. PERCIVAL and MR. ARTHUR WOOD, managing director of C. E. Johannson, Ltd., have joined the board of Henry Meadows, Ltd.
MR. R. J. GAMMON, formerly motor transport maintenance engineer of B.O.A.C., has been appointed transport superintendent. He succeeds MR. H. J. SPENCER, who has resigned.
MR. J. TATHAM, Of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been elected president and MR. H. C. CAMPBELL of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance, secretary of the newly formed New Zealand Road Federation.
MR. G. H. SEARLE, of the Ministry of Food, has been elected chairman of the Metropolitan Section of the Institute of Transport, as from October 1 next. MR. F. GILBERT, of the British Transport Commission, is the immediate past chairman.
MR. J. S. DORMER has resigned his position as Midland divisional works engineer and district engineer (Nottingham) of the Road Haulage Executive. He was on the staff of the Road Motor Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway, from 1933-1950, and was district road motor engineer for 12 years until he took up his appointment with the R.H.E. Mr. Dormer is becoming engineer and manager of a new company being formed in Quebec, Canada, to manufacture certain parts for mining machinery.
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MR. R. J. PINDER has been appointed a director of Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd.
MR. V. MARTIN-JONES has been appointed managing director of Lodge Plugs, Ltd.
M. E. D. E. ANDREWES has been appointed joint managing director of Accles and Pollock, Ltd.
M. F. BANKS WARNER, who has reached retiring age, has resigned his positions as chairman and managing director of Fina Petroleum Products, Ltd., but remains a director. MR. C. M. MERRICK is now sole managing director.
MR. HENRY SPURRIER is IO be chairman of Leyland-Albion (Africa), Ltd., Elandsfontein, who are to amalgamate the separate activities of Leyland Motors, Ltd., and Albion Motors, Ltd., in South Africa and the Rhodesias. MR. H. W. FULTON, managing director of Albion, will be non-resident director, undertaking special liaison duties. The managing director in South Africa will be MR. J. L. BLACKWOOD MURRAY, with MR. N. MCKELV1E COCKSHUIT as his deputy.
COAL LORRYOVERWEIGHT nIFFICULTIES of estimating the
weight of coal loaded on to a lorry by means of a hopper were mentioned to Burton magistrates, last Friday.
John William Murfin, 12 Ash Street, Burton, who was fined £3 for driving a vehicle 1 ton 1 cwt. 1 qr. overweight, told a constable that, when loaded, the coal was wet. The weighbridge, which did not belong to the pit, was half a mile from the pit and, said Murfin, if a load was too heavy, the surplus was not permitted to be removed. There was also no provision for it at the pit.
A. Fletcher and Co., Ltd., Murfin's employers, were fined £5 for permitting the offence.
It was stated that the problem of disposing of surplus coal had now been solved.