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Mr. W. L. Williams, chairman, St. Helens Corporation transport committee, has been elected president of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association; J. C. Franklin, general manager, Blackpool Corporation Transport, is vice-president; R. Cox, transport
Michael Warwick-Smith, 33, who has held senior marketing positions with Courtney Engineering, Border Chemicals and Carreras Rothmans, has been appointed British Road Services Ltd. 's marketing manager for the South East district.
Arne Geidler has been appointed the managing director of the Scania-Vabis subsidiary company in England—Scania-Vabis (Great Britain) Ltd. He is at present sales manager for West Europe at the export department of the company in Sodertalje. Mr. Geidler succeeds K. R. K. Domeilof.
P. B. Durrant has been appointed company secretary of Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Ltd., Basingstoke. Hants, a member company of British Leylands construction equipment division.
E. C. Tuff, chief engineer of Midland Red since 1956, who is retiring at the end of the year for health reasons (CM October 31 will however, continue to be available to the company for a period in a consultative capacity. Mr. Tuff joined Thomas Tilling Ltd. in 1923. In 1933, when the firm was taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board, he became a technical assistant and three years later moved to West Yorkshire as works superintendent. later becoming assistant engineer. In 1946 he became chief engineer at United Counties and subsequently held the same position with West Yorkshire and United Automobile Services before moving to Midland Red.
G. A. Brockman, transport manager of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board, has been appointed chairman of the Glasgow and West of Scotland division of the Industrial Transport Association
manager, Edinburgh Corporation, treasurer, Ald. Norman Harris, member of Southendon-Sea transport committee, has been re-elected chairman of the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers; W. Kershaw, general manager and engineer, Maidstone Corporation Transport, is vicechairman ; R. Cox, transport manager. Edinburgh Corporation, treasurer, John Redfern, 40. has been appointed director of marketing at Hanger Engineering Ltd. He joins the company from the P-E Consulting Group Ltd. where, as senior consultant, he was responsible for marketing activities undertaken for P-E clients in the Midlands.
J. C. Douglass has been appointed BRS Parcels Ltd. branch manager. Stratford. He was formerly traffic assistant, Bermondsey. H. F. Lloyd became marketing assistant, head office, where he was formerly commercial assistant.
George Honor, 51, National Carriers Ltd. assistant manager at Reading has been promoted manager. Lloyd Williams, 42, has been promoted to depot manager at Exeter.
R. W. B. Hawksley, executive chairman of Mann Egerton and Co. Ltd., has been appointed to the board of a new non-trading company. Mann Egerton (Management) Ltd., part of Mann Egerton's reorganization on regional lines. Four newly appointed regional managing directors are also on the board. namely : D. C. Denman (region no. 1, based at Norwich I : B. J. Bleaney I Chelmsford): N. G. Finch (London, N121: and R. A. Edmonds (Nottinghaml. Others on the board S. Harris, m.d. of Ford division: R. W. Douglass, group financial controller; I. G. Reed. director of group parts services; and N. H. Atkinson, m.d. of the national fleet division.
Frank Porter has been officially installed as new chairman of the Humberside section of the Institute of Transport. He took over the chairmanship from J. R. Fewlass. Frank Saville, 36. has been appointed general marketing manager of Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd. a member of the Owen Organisation. Mr. Saville joined the company at its inception at Southampton in 1963 as design engineer, being appointed market development manager in 1967.
Robert Gordon Willoughby and Brian Harold Sewell have been appointed marketing executii,fes, Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd. Mr. Willoughby. previously a sales representative for the South East of England for Edbro Ltd., will now cover this area for Highway. Mr. Sewell who was with Clark Brothers' Ltd., as senior commercial vehicle sales consultant, will represent Highway in the Eastern Counties, J. A. Muir, 41, has been appointed an industrial relations officer with London Transport. Since 1960 he had been assistant secretary of the Society of Civil Servants.
H. I. S. Brounger has been appointed export sales manager (spares) of the Automotive Products Group. Mr. Brounger—who joins the AP Group from Rootes Motors Ltd. in London where he was marketing strategies export manager, previously holding the position of general manager of Rootes Autos Deutschland. Dusseldorf.
Eric Christmas, Rootes Motor Ltd. quality and reliability manager at the company's car assembly plant at Ryton. Coventry, has been appointed quality and reliability director for all the company operations. He will be based in Quadrant House, Dunstable.
C. H. Bradbury, managing director of Simms Group Research and Development Ltd. retires this month after 47 years in engineering. He is being succeeded by Dr. P. E. Glikin, as general manager.
Tom Leonard, well-known Kent commercial vehicle salesman, has retired oii the completion of 55 years service with Drake and Fletcher Ltd,
OBITUARY
We record with regret the death of Bob Day. Mr. Day, who was 47, was maintenance manager of Tyburn Road Tank Services Ltd.: he died in hospital on September 30.