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MR. HENRY HAHN, sales, promotion manager of York Trailer Co., Ltd., is making a tour of Ghana.
SIR SYDNEY LITTLEWOOD has been elected president of the Sand and Gravel Association of Great Britain.
MR. G. H. ALIEN, MR. B. C. BELL and MR. R. WALTER have been elected directors of the Bell Punch Co.. Ltd.
MR. S. A. Errol is replacing MR. W. H. F. MupsrED as a director of the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd.
MRT COLLIER, general manager of the Kilmarnock faptory of the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., has been appointed a director.
ALD. JOHN LESLIE HUGHES, a haulage contractor of Everton, Liverpool, has been adopted as the Labour Party nominee for the Lord Mayoralty for 1960-61.
MR. L. B. BEYNON, at present a member of the staff of Peat Marwick Mitchell and Co., Swansea, has been appointed secretary-accountant of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., from April 1.
MR. R. GORE. has been appointed to the newly created post of facilities manager of F. Perkins, Ltd. He will be responsible for planning, plant, toolroom operations, industrial engineering and safety.
MR. F. CHANDLER has been elected chairman of the Leeds division of the Industrial Transport Association. MR. J. W. STEPHENS and Mn. J. H. TOP.ILINSON are vice-chairmen. MR. J. RODEN is honorary secretary and MR. J. ROBERTS treasurer. MR. A. D. MaelCAv has been appointed managing director of Newage Engineers, Ltd., and to the boards of five subsidiary companies.
MR. EDWARD P. CONNOLLY, director of Connolly Bros. (Curriers), Ltd., has been re-elected president of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers.
MR, A. L. TAYLOR has been re-elected chairman of the Reading and District area of the Traders' Road Transport Association. MR. R. L. CoATEs was re-elected vice-chairman.
MR. A. W. HiosoN, manager of the engineering department of the National Benzoic Co-., Ltd., has retired after 35 years' service. He is succeeded by MR. R. C. LEWIS, formerly the assistant manager.
MR. J. R. Ents has been appointed professor of automobile engineering and the first director of the Advanced School of Automobile Engineering, which is being set up in association with the College of Aeronautics. His appointment takes effect on June 1.
MR. W. R. BOOKER, commercial trades superintendent of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., in Bradford, has been re-elected president of the Yorkshire Transport Society. MR. ARNOLD S. CLAY, a driving .instructor of Leeds Transport Department, has been re-elected chairman.
MR. BASIL G. BONALLACK, deputy chairman of Bonallack and Sons, Ltd., flies to America on Monday for a 10-day visit at the invitation of Reynolds Metals Co., Richmond, Virginia. MR. W. SIDEitarrom has been appointed Bonallack's representative in north-west and west London.
MR. JOHN G. DAVIES has been appointed general sales manager of Pirelli, Ltd. MR. W. M. FRIZELL, who was previously home replacement sales manager, has been appointed assistant to Mr. Davies, MR. HERBERT PARSON, chief executive of tyre sales, has relinquished his position, after 36 years' service, on reaching the age of 60.
Mr. J. Hoop, of Adams Butter, Ltd., Leek, has been elected chairman of the Potteries Area of the West Midland Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. Ma. A. E. Boom, of J. Hewitt and Son (Fenton), Ltd., MR. D. BOSTON, Birkett and Roberts, Ltd., and MR. R. J. H. NURSER, G. H. Downing and Co., Ltd., are vice-chairmen. MR. L. BUCKI.F.Y, of John Joule and Sons, is honorary secretary.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the death of SIR WY GEORGE BERNARD LOMAS-WALKER.
Sir George, who was chairman of Cresswell's Asbestos Co., Ltd., Bradford, for the past 25 years, died at a board meeting. .