Men in the News SIR CECIL WEIR, K.B.E., M.C., has joined the board of the Pyrene Co., Ltd.
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MR. C. E. A. CAUSION has been appointed head of the garage-equipment division of the Marsham Tyre Co., Ltd.
MR H. J SATCHWELL, A.M.I.Mech.E., who has been with the Daimler Co., Ltd., for 46 years, has retired. For the past 21 years he has been buyer.
MR. W. N. Comitss, sales and service director of F. Perkins, Ltd., and MR. H. STANLEY PEARCE, export manager, are visiting the Belgian Congo.
MR. F. A. UPPER-LON, general sales manager, and MR. J. MATTINSON, Works manager, have joined the board of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.
MK. K. C. BOYD has been appointed sales manager of Rootes Motors (Can-ada), Ltd. He has spent many years in the motor industry in the Far East.
MR. J. C. PRICE, managing director of Tyresoles, Ltd., is visiting the U.S.A. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Incorporated Sales Managers' Association.
MR. S. B. STEPHENSON, manager of the -Penarth Road depot of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been appointed general manager of Hants and Sussex Motor Services, Ltd.
MR. JOSEPH MACKLE has been appointed general manager of Belfast Transport Department. He joined the department in 1933 arid became rollingstock engineer in 1940.
Cott. F.. W. HORNSBY, R.N,, 111.1.MEch.F., a past president of the Institution of Engineering-Draughtsmen and Designers, has been appointed director of standardization (defence) by the Minister of Supply.
• Ma. F. P. BARRIBAL has been saeceecled In the managership of th,2 London Automotive branch of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., by MR. J. N. LISTER. Mr. Barribal has become manager of the automotive fuels department.
MR. P. D. P. KEMP has been appointed a director of Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd. MR. A. HAYWARD now fills the position of contracts officer, MR. P, H. KNOWLER, sales manager (coach division), and MR. E. N. Comas, publicity officer.
MR, F, MITCHELL joined G. T. Riches and Co., Ltd., as joint managing director on October 1. Before 1939. he was prominent in northern trade circles: MR. D. MaarLas has been appointed to the board as sales director after four years as a representative. MR. J. M. Kat' has been ,made director and general manager. He has been with the company nearly 30 years.
112 • MR. T. L. GARNER, M.Sc., has been elected president of the Purchasing Officers' Association. MR. H. W. KING has been made chairman.
MR. A. C. NEWBY, planning engineer at Charlton works, has been appointed assistant works manager (trams and trolleybuses) in the department of the London Transport chief mechanical engineer (road services).
SIR DONALD ST. CLAIR GAINER, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., will become chief executive of the International Road Federation (London office) on Octob-zr 15, after retiring from the Foreign Service. He is at present Adviser on
German Affairs to the Foreign Office, and has always taken a keen interest in transport and roads.
DRIVERS' PAY CLAIM BACKED QUPPORT for the claim by the Trans port and General Workers' Union that drivers of municipal vehicles of 5 tons and over should be paid 6s. more per week than drivers of 2-5-ton lorries has come from Manchester Cleansing Committee.