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Mr. C. Nock has been appointed Northern Area representative for Ken Smith (Trailers) Co., Ltd.
Mr. L. J. Portman, export sales manager of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., has returned to this country after a sales tour of Africa and the Middle East.
Mr. A. V. Turnbull, north-east area secretary of the National Union of Vehicle Builders, has been elected a member of Gateshead Town Council.
Mr. J. Thorpe has been appointed general works manager of Scammell Lorries, Ltd. Mr. Thorpe has been with Leyland Motors, Ltd., since 1927 and has been seconded to Scammell for the past year.
Mr. Clifford S. Shaw has been appointed assistant managing director of R. H. Neal and Co., Ltd., of Grantham, one of the Steel Group of Companies. Mr. Shaw designed the original Neal mobile cranes some 30 years ago.
Mr. Alfred Smith, 36-year-old deputy garage superintendent of West Bromwich Tr a n sp o rt Department, has been appointed assistant engineer with the Halifax Transport Department. He is to take up his post early in June in succession to Mr. Derek L. Hyde who was recently appointed general manager at Aberdare. Sir Philip Warier has been reappointed a part-time member of the British Transport Commission until May 31, 1962. Sir Philip is chairman • of the Southern Area Board of the B.T.C.
Mr. C. Elliott, chief engineer, Dodge Bros. (Great Britain). Ltd., for the past 16 years, has taken up an appointment with Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd. He has been succeeded at Dodge by Mr. J. S. Gregory, chief engineer of Simea.
Mr. C. M. Vignoles, managing director of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., is retiring on June 30 and is to be succeeded by Mr. J. E. H. Davies. Mr. Davies, who is 45, joined Anglo-Iranian Oil Company—now The British Petroleum Co., Ltd.—in 1946. Since 1956 he has been a general manager of that company. He was elected to the board of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., in 1956 and to the board of B.P. Trading, Ltd., in 1960. Mr. Vignoles, who is 60, has been managing director since 1951. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1957. Mr. Leslie Nelson has been appointec representative in the North of Englanc for the York Trailer Co., Ltd.
Mr. W. L. Drummond, former sale' director of Guy Motors, Ltd., has taken up a new post as managing director ot Lancia Concessionaires, Ltd., of Alperton. Middlesex. " Bill " Drummond, felt many years a well-known figure in the British heavy vehicle industry, joined the Guy company from Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd., as sales manager in 1954, and was made a member of the Guy board as sales director in 1957. He received his early engineering training with Leyland Motors, Ltd.
Mr. Brian Minshull has been appointed general manager of Solex. Ltd., in succession to Mr. J. Hoggarth, who has resigned. Mr. Peter Moore has been appointed sales and service manager, taking over from Mr. Bill Graham, who has now taken up the position of group distribution manager for Soles and Zenith. Mr. Colin Dennell has been appointed to fill the newly created post of contracts manager.