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13th January 1939
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'MR. MALCOLM BRERETON,,, M.A., secretary of the British Road Federation, has accepted tha position af -joint honorary secretary of the 1Modein Roads Movement,

-The services of COUNCILLOR F. LEACH, J.P., who recently retired from the position of chairman of Leeds transport undertaking, are not, after all, to be lost to the industry, for he has been reappointed a Traffic Commissioner for the Yorkshire Area.

MR. EDWARD SMITH was re-elected president of the Bradford and District Commercial Vehicle Owners' Federation at the annual meeting last Friday. Mr. Smith, who is chairrrian of Smith, Parkinsole and Cole. Ltd., a large coal-selling concern in Bradford, has held this office for a considerable number of years.

MR, ERNEST BEVLN, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, is to visit Scotland for five days from January 30. He will address a series of meetings, in connection with the activities of the Union, at Edinburgh, Dundee, Ardeer, and probably at Aberdeen. He will also inspect the Union's head offices in Edinburgh.

MR. V. E. BRIDGEN has joined Rootes, Ltd., in London, and has been appointed manager of the commercialtransport department, in succession to the late Mr. C. W. Breadmore. A member of the Industrial Transport Association and of the Sales Managers' Association, Mr. Bridgen has been associated with the manufacture, sale and operation of commercial vehicles throughout his business career. He has an intimate and specialized knowledge of oil engines, having in the past been connected with Armstrong-Saurer Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., and F. Perkins, Ltd. He was one of the founders of the British Amalgamated Transport, Ltd., the well-known 'Midland group of transport companies.

MR. W. K. SHIRLAW, South Wales area manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been appointed assistant Scottish manager for the company, and will take up his new duties towards the end of the month. He joined the concern in 1919, and has held his present position for the past nine years,

Mn. C. R. CLUTSOM has been appointed South Wales area manager for Leyland Motors, Ltd. He served his apprenticeship with the company, which he has represented at home and overseas. He set up the Leyland sales and service organization in Greece, and was afterwards appointed Leyland manager in India, a position which he has held for the past five years.

MAJOR F. S. EASTWOOD, who has succeeded Mr, Joseph Farndale as chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Yorkshire Area, presided for the first time in the former capacity last Tuesday at a sitting of the Commissioners at York. He was accompanied by COUNCILLOR FREDERICK LEACH and ALDERMAN COCKERILL.

Mn.. D. McNicou., B.Sc., has been appointed export sales manager of British Timken, Ltd., Birmingham. This is a new post created to assist in the management of the export business which the company is now undertaking. Since joining British Tiniken, Ltd., in 1934, Mr. McNicoll haS travelled widely for the concern, visiting every country in Europe, as well as Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and India.


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