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MR. J. P. HALPIN has been appointed a director of Renold Chains, Ltd.
MR. J. A. Tasrt.oa, sales director for Carrimore Six Wheelers, Ltd., is making satisfactory progress after an operation.
MR. R. D. Mc' MR. J. E. NELSON has been appointed an executive director of Applcyard of Leeds, Ltd., responsible for commercialvehicle sales. He joined the company in 1929: MR. K. LANGRIOGE is In relinquish his position as chief engineer of Thomas Harrington, Ltd., at the end of the year • to become .service manager of Rootcs Inc., New York, U.S.A. MR. C. A. JUDSON. former deputy director of the group research centre run by the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., has become assistant head of the engineering department at the Royal Technical College of East Africa, Nairobi. MR. PAUL W. SAMENGO-TURNER and MR. W. L. SAMENGO-TURNER have been appointed joint managing directors of Yeoman Credit, Ltd., London, W.I. MR. G. J. F. SAMENGO-TURNER has resigned as managing director, but has been appointed deputy-chairman. MR. FRANK COYLE, national passenger group secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, is to retire. He is 60 and has had two serious illnesses in recent years. A successor will not be appointed until about February, and Mr. Coyle will retain his post until then. MR. S. C. BOND has been appointed transport controller for the Stewart and Lloyds Group after 17 years as transport and general shipping manager for the Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd. For the past four years he has been president of the Traders' Road Transport Association, and he is chairman of the National Road Transport Federation. MR. J. CHAPMAN has been appointed director and general manager of Horstman, Ltd., Bath, one of the Sin'uns Group. Ma. M. A. HASSID, managing director of the Motor and Electronics Corporation, recently acquired by the Simms Group, has been made a director of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., and of certain group coinpanies, including Horstman, Ltd. MR. JOHN R. BRIGGS has been appointed works manager at Clitheroe for T.G.B. Motors, Ltd.. Guy distributors in the West Riding and part of Lancashire. MR. STANLEY G. WHITTAKF.R becomes vehicle sales manager at the same depot. MR. CLIFFORD ORMFROD is the new works manager at Burnley, and MR. LESLIE SMITH has taken over as works manager of Associated Dismantlers, Ramsbottom. c4 MR H. MORGAN has joined Laycock Engineering, Ltd., as a garage-equipment representative in South Wales. Laycock are members of the Birfield group of companies. MR. M. S. MEYER. managing director of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., has completed 30 years' service with the company. MR. A. S. BISHOP, chairman, who made a presentation to him to mark the occasion, has been with Goodyear for 41 years. MR. J. E. PEARMAN, formerly assistant ilivisional manager at Sheffield for the National Benzoic Co., Ltd., has been appointed assistant manager (dealer sales department) at the company's London head office. MR. L. W. ABREY-NUIL becomes assistant divisional manager for the West Riding Division. MR. E. W. HANCOCK, general manager of Humber, Ltd., has been tiepointed director of special projects for the Rootes Group, but he will remain on the Humber board. Humber's new director and general manager will be MR. WILLIAM GARNER, at present director and general manager of Tilling-Stevens, Maidstone. MR. F. P. PowErr. will succeed Mr. Garner at Maidstone. relinquishing his post as director and general works manager of Singer Motors, Ltd. APPEAL AGAINST COURT DECISION ON BUS TYRES AN appeal has been lodged against the acquittal of Dundee Corporation and one of their bus drivers in a case involving allegedly defective tyres. The corporation were last week cleared by Dundee Sheriff Court of causing and permitting Peter Forbes Smart to use a bus with defective tyres. Smart was found not guilty of driving recklessly or carelessly. Smart was driving a bus which collided with guard rails outside a hospital and knocked down an aged pedestrian. He attributed the accident to a rear-wheel skid. Mr. A. A. Cradock, Ministry of Transport vehicle inspector, told the court that three of the tyres were badly worn, and he did not think they should have been on a public service vehicle. He was not prepared tn say they were dangerous, but if he had seen them in that condition he would have ordered them to be changed immediately. Mr. W. L. Russell, Dundee Corporation transport manager, said he was not satisfied with the canvas showing on one of the tyres. which ought to have been changed. However, none of the tyres was dangerous. Mr. D. J. Messer, a tyre company service engineer, claimed that the tyre most worn was good for another 4,000-5,000 miles. Another service engineer, Mr. E. Hide, 'said a tire with no tread was better under some conditions than one with tread. Sheriff Christie said the evidence raised, a doubt and he accordingly found the corporation not guilty.Tags