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MR. S. R. MILLER has been appointed a director of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd.
MR. L. T. QUINN, traffic assistant of Oldham Transport Departthent, has been appointed traffic superintendent of 13ai row Transport Department.
MR. T. G. CAVAN, sales manager of T. Harrison and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., has returned from a six weeks' sales tour of Sweden, Norway anli Denmark.
MR. JOHN OLDHAM, chairman of Oldham and Son, Ltd., flew to Africa on Tuesday to visit his company's interests there. It is his fourth trip in less than six years.
MR. F. R. REEVES, operating traffic superintendent in the London district office of British Road Services' South 'Eastern Division, has been appointed East Anglia district manager.
MR. R. CHIVERS, of F. Chivers and Son, Devizes, has been elected chairman of the Devizes Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. Vice-chairman is MR. H. PEARCE, of G. Pearce and Sons, Potterne.
MR. PHILIP C. RICKARDS has found it necessary to resign from the board of Brew. Bros., Ltd., because of his increasing commitments as chairman and managing director of Charles Rickards, Ltd., and its associated companies.
MR. F. J. BISHOP, senior commercial representative of the Nottingham branch of B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd., was last week presented with a gold watch to mark his 50 years of service dating back to the time when he joined the erstwhile Sutton company.
MR. R. ANTONY BEcxerr, managing director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., leaves at the end of this month to visit his company's overseas subsidiaries. He will travel to Australia and New Zealand, returning via the U.S.A. and Canada.
MR. J. A. NEALE has been appointed a principal executive assistant in the office of the recruitment and training officer of the London Transport Executive. Since 1955 he has been in charge of recruitment and promotion arrangements for administrative and technical staff.
Ma. P. L. P. WARD has been appointed assistant traffic manager of Jamaica Omnibus Services, Ltd., and will probably leave to take up his new post in March. A graduate of the B.E.T: training scheme, he is at present Portsmouth area assistant manager of. Southdown Motor Services, Ltd.
SIR LEONARD LORD, chairman of the British Motor Corporation, is to make a Commonwealth business tour, in the course of which he will visit the organization's assembly plant in Melbourne, Australia, and the B.M.C. engine reconditioning works in Hamilton, Ontario. He will sail back to Britain from New York in May.
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MR. F. G. CRABS has been appointed a member of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the London area, in place of MR. E. W. ARKLE, who resigned when the British Transport Commission transferred him to another post. Mr. Crabb is headquarters commercial officer of the Eastern Region of British Railways.
MR. J. A. CHRISTENSEN, export commercial manager of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., has begun a ,five-week 15,000-mile tour of Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, Mexico, the U.S.A. and Canada. MR. A. R. OvvEN, export sales controller for Central and South America and the Caribbean, is covering 20,000 Miles in a tour of his territory.
MR. R.: A. MARDEN, comptroller for the Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., since 1949, has been appointed tax adviser, in charge of the company's new tax department. He is succeeded by Ma. L. R. PINCOTT, deputy comptroller for four years. MR. C. A. WALDER, supply department manager, has been promoted to deputy general marine manager. His place is taken by MR. E. CHAPMAN, formerly assistant manager of the supply department.
MR. H. G. DUNN, chief engineer of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has become an associate director and will be in charge of the new product development division. He is also being appointed a director of four other companies in the Simms group. The engineering division of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has been divided into three sections, called the fuel-injection, electrical and turbocharger divisions, and the new chief engineers of each are MR. T. PATERSON, MR. R. H. SH1NWELL and MR. K. YOUNGMAN. They will be directly responsible to MR. C. H. BRADBURY, technical director.
U.T.A. GET 0,500 FOR ARSON BY I.R.A.
AN award of £3,500 was made at Antrim Sessions last week, to the Ulster Transport Authority for the "malicious burning by the Irish Republican Army" of two single-deck buses at Culnafoy, Thome, between May 25 and 26, 1957. Judge Johnson ordered that the sum should be levied on the county at large.
Mr. C. A. Nicholson, for the U.T.A., said they were claiming £4,518 because the two 10-year-old vehicles were in firstclass cortdition. After the fire, their salvage value was about £9. Ten years ago they would have cost about £2,600 each, but today the price would be £4,216.
Mr. Thomas Guinniff, U.T.A. production engineer, said the vehicles had about six more running years.
Mr. J. Anderson, secretary of the U.T.A., pointed out that they would not receive any insurance payment. Their insurers had only recently brought out a scheme providing provisional coverage for malicious injury to vehicles.