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MR. S. S. RoasoN has been elected chairman of the Northern Division of the Traders Road Transport Association for the tenth year in succession.
MR. JOHN S. Cox has been appointed managing director of Manchester Garages in succession to M. L. C. VARNEY. Mr. Varney will continue as a director.
MR. A. E. BREWER has been elected chairman of the South Wales Area of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. The vice-chairman is MR. A. T. CHIVERS.
M. G. DUCKWORTH has been promoted traffic manager of Southdown Motor Services Ltd. He joined Southdown from Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., in 1936 and has been assistant traffic manager since April, 1951.
MR. C. V. HUMPHREY, Swindon manager of Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.. since 1930, has been appointed traffic superintendent at Gloucester. He has been succeeded at Swindon by Ma. D. G. HODGES.
MR. D. H. GRIFFIN has been appointed to the sales staff of Leyland Motors, Ltd., at the company's Birmingham office. He recently returned from an 18-month tour of Mexico and Havana as a field-service engineer.
M. Li=wis D. LEVY has been re;fleeted chairman of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. MR. J. JANES, MR. S. J. LAMBORN and MR. E. G. WHirrAKER are vice-chairmen.
MR. A. W. REED has been appointed sales manager (operators) of C.A.V., Ltd. Well known to the majority of fleet owners, he will be responsible for she co-ordination of the activities of headquarters and area representatives in their sales contacts with operators of goods and passenger vehicles.
MR. A. B. WARING has been elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in succession to MR. W. R. BLACK, who becomes deputy-president. The two new vicepresidents are MR. R. F. HANKS and DR. F. LLEWELLYN SMITH. MAJ.-GEN. J. S. CRAWFORD has been re-elected as treasurer. Mr. Waring is chairman and joint managing director of Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd. He is also a director of Lloyds Bank, Ltd. 'Mr. Black is chairman of A.C.V. Sales. Ltd., whilst Mr. Hanks is vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organization and a director of the British Motor Corporation, Ltd. Dr. Llewellyn Smith is a director of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and chief executive of the motor car division, and Maj.-Gen. Crawford is a director of Guy Motors, Ltd.
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MR. G. FISHER has succeeded MR. E. BROWN as president of the Sheffield Motor Trades Council.
MR. J. M. HAMILTON, assistant to the bus maintenance engineer of the New South Wales Department of Government Transport, recently spent a number of weeks at the factory of Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd. Mr. Hamilton, who was awarded the 1953 Manville Fellowship by the Institution
of Mechanical Engineers for his paper on "Current Practices and Problems in Public Service Vehicle Braking Systems," is in the United Kingdom for nine months.
MR. S. H. EDGE, chief engineer and assistant general manager of Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., has completed an extensive tour of the United States, where he visited the Bendix Organization with whom the company are associated. He was accompanied by MR. G. A. JEFFREY, assistant chief draughtsman.
MR_ H. A. DAvIs has retired from his position as manager of the motor group of Brown Brothers. Ltd., and has been succeeded by MR. ROBERT C. TURNER, formerly assistant general manager. Mr. Davis, who was due to retire from the company this year after 51 years' service, has been requested to remain for a further period to undertake special duties. Mr. Turner joined Brown Brothers in 1946, was appointed manager of their Acton branch four years later, and returned to head office last year.
SIR MARK HODGSON has been appointed chairman of the North Eastern Transport Users' Consultative Committee by the Minister of Transport. The committee, whose first term of office ended on March 31, has MR. F. L. HICK as their secretary. Other members are: MR. R. H. BULMER, MR. K. HARPER, MR. A. R. POLSON, MR. J. E. PEACOCK, MR. S. J. ADAMSON, MR. K. H. L. COOPER, ALD. J. GRAY, MR. H. N. CONSTANTINE, MR. F. BURR. MR. R. STANLEY, ALD. COL. R. MOULDGRAHAM, CLIR. T. W. ATKINSON, MR. H. A. SHORT and M. A. T. EVANS. MR. J. C. RADCLIFFE has been appointed a member of the committee for Wales and Monmouthshire.