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MR. J. R. ENGLISH has been appointed assistant production manager of the Dunlop factory in Kobe, Japan.
MR. R. E. CHISNALL has been appointed Pirelli sales representative for parts of Gloucestershire. Somerset and Wiltshire.
SIR JOHN DALTON has succeeded SIR MONTAGUE HUGHMAN as chairman of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. Sir Montague remains on the board.
MR. E. G. 0. RIDGWELL has been appointed manager of the recently combined transport and packaging departments of the General Electric Co., Ltd. He was formerly packaging controller.
MR. P. H. KNOWLER, sales manager of Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd., is at present in Auckland, New Zealand, supervising the assembly of 99 knockeddown bodies being delivered by the concern.
MR. T. Ports. general manager of Doncaster Transport Department, who was due to retire on March 31, has been retained until the corporation's application for increased fares has been disposed of.
SIR HENRY WILSON SMITH, a director of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., is to be chairman of an independent committee to review the long-term problems of duty-free entry of machinery into the United Kingdom.
MR. F. Y FRAZER, general manager of Lincoln Transport Department has been confirmed in his appointment as general manager at Aberdeen where he will take over from MR. ALFRED SMITH, who retires in June.
MR. B. C. WREN has been elected chairman of the Southampton centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. The vice-chairmen are now MR. H. W. HoArtE and MR. A. J. TERRELL and the secretary and treasurer MR. J. STELLING.
MR. A. E. BONFIE1.D has succeeded MR. W. J. DAvies as works manager of Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd. Mr. Bonfield joined the concern in 1945, having previously been with the Weymann, Strachans. and Leyland companies.
MR. ALFRED ROEBUCK has become president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In the automobile division, MR. R. A. WII.SON-JONES hasbeen appointed chairman of the Birmingham centre, MR. IVAN M. WALLER, chairman of the north-western centre, and MR. A. C. MACDONAI.D chairman of the Scottish centre.