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MR. B. J. SHARP has been appointed secretary of Quicktbo (1928), Ltd.
MR. MILES B. REID has resigned from the board of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.
MR. J P. LA1No, general manager of Spurting Motor Bodies, Ltd., has retired. He has been succeeded by MR. A. L. PEACHEY.
MR. B. F. CALINT, managing director of Atkinson Vehicles, Ltd., has left for visits to the company's distributors in South Africa and Australia.
MR. G. A. C. HANDS, manager of Halifax Corporation Transport Department for the past eight years;-will become Chief assistant engineer of Coventry Transport Department on May 31.
MR, LEN FORDEN, a Manchester busman, was elected chairman, of the Transport and General Workers' Union on Monday. He succeeds MR. EDGAR FRYER, a Bristol bus worker, who has retired.
MR. R. V. POHLMAN, of G. W. King, Ltd., has been re-elected chairman of the Hertfordshire area of the Traders' Road Transport Association. MR. E. S. KIRKLAND, of John Dale, Ltd., is vicechairman.
Ma. W. J. WYERs has been appointed assistant chief products designer of the research and development department of Rubery Owen and Co., Ltd. He was previously assistant chief designer of Cannon Industries, Ltd., for 18 years.
MR. PETER BLAKE has been appointed south-west area manager ofRomac Industries, Ltd. MR. JACK MILNER has become Midland manager, MR. FRED HEPWORTH, north-eastern manager and MR. LEN STAAL, north-western manager.
MR. F. D. FITZ-GERALD, who has been national secretary of the Traders' Road Transport Association since 1945, retires at the end of this month upon reaching pensionable age. He will be succeeded by MR. H. R. FEATHERSTONE, who has been assistant secretary since 1958.
MR. LESLIE W. WEST has become commercial director of the Weaver Manufacturing and Engineering Co., Ltd„ and William Turner (Kismet), Ltd. MR, E. J. GREEN has been appointed home sales manager, MRJ. W. SMITH office manager of the sales, service and spares departments, and MR. R. J. FILRY superintendent of the training centre at Bedford.
MR. R. F. MEAD has been appointed comptroller of the Perkins group of companies. His previous position of chief accountant has been taken over by MR, P. BREALEY, who was previously assistant chief accountant MR. F. H. SHEPHEARD has been appointed sales manager of the Spanish, Portuguese and South American zones of Perkins Engines. Ltd.
c10 MR. W. P. STare has been appointed managing director of G. Beaton and Son, Ltd.
MR. T. J. STAMMERS, until recently north-western divisional engineer (central road services) of the London Transport Executive, retires tomorrow.
MR. D. A. LAW, formerly chief engineer of Petters, Ltd., Staines, has been appointed chief engineer of Wellworthy, Ltd. MR. C. F. NOSSITER, who was formerly chief engineer of J. A. Prestwich Industries, Ltd., has joined Wellworthy as chief development engineer.
MR. R. A. McistEttx, managing director of Arthur Guinness Son and Co. tPark Royal), Ltd., has been elected president of the Mansion House Association on Transport. He succeeds MR. • M. F. BARNARD, who has also been chairman of the council for a number of years. MR. A. J. MALACRIDA Will retire as secretary at the end of the month. MR. H. TUDOR WILLIAMS will act as honorary secretary.
MR. C. B. DICKSEE and PROF. G. E. MuctcLow have been jointly awarded the James Clayton Prize for 1959, drawn from the Clayton Trust Fund, by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The award to Mr. Dicksee was made for his work on high-speed compression-ignition engines, and that to Prof. Muck low for his research into the propagation of pulses (wave action) in gases, and problems connected with the internalcombustion engine.