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19th September 1958
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MR. L. H. CANNON, deputy general manager of Eastbourne Transport Department, has been recommended to succeed the late MR. JOHN ATHERTON as general manager.

MR. S. T. CLAttx will cease to be managing director of G. Beaton and Son, Ltd., on September 30, when he will become managing director of Canatlas Steels (England), Ltd.

MR. D. S. DODSLEY WILLIAMS, editor of our associated journal The Oil Engine and Gas Turbine, has been elected president of the Diesel Engineers and Users Association. He will be inducted on October 16.

MR. E. RENDALL Will succeed MR. J. A. Hromnisa as manager of the north eastern division of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., at the end of the month, when Mr. Higham retires. Mr. Rendall is at present sales manager of Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex.

MR. BERNARD A. CHRISTIE has been appointed home sales manager for Coventry .Climax Engines, Ltd. He was formerly sales manager of the engine, fire pump and outboard motor division. Mr. Christie is a director of Coventry Climax (Electrics), Ltd.

MR. A. E. WALTERS has been appointed general sales manager of Anthony Hoists, Ltd., and will be responsible for all domestic and export sales. MR. H. R. TAYLOR becomes domestic and export sales manager, and MR. D. C. SEYMOUR is his assistant MR. E. PLAYER, deputy chairman and managing director of Birmid Industries, .Ltd., and a director of the Midland Motor Cylinder Co., Ltd., has been appointed joint managing director of the Midland Motor Cylinder Co., with MR. -F. A. W. LIVERMORE, who has been works director of the company for the past five years.

MR. J. W. Wicks, who, as reported in The Commercial Motor last week, has now become London Transport's works manager for buses, trolleybuses and coaches, will be assisted in trolleybus operation by MR. A. R. PURVES, road services engineering superintendent, who now takes over the additional duties of trolleybus works superintendent

MR. D. I. R. MUIR will become Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner and Licensing Authority on January 1, following the retirement of BRIG. R. J. 0. DOWSE from this post. At present Mr. Muir is an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Transport. He joined the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1947, and since its merger with the Ministry of Transport he has served in various capacities including being in charge of the vehicle regulation and taxation division. Brig. Dowse took over the post 12 years ago on retirement from the Army.

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MR. E. L. Tun, a director of the PrOjectile and Engineering Co., Ltd., has been appointed .general manager.

"MOTORWAYS A BOON TO COACH OPERATORS"

COACHES will be able to cut three hours off the time for a 200-mile journey when the new motorways are extended as trunk routes. This is forecast by Mr. H. Bottomley, general manager of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., in the company's staff bulletin.

" For the first time in history," he says, "public service vehicles will be able to travel at speeds appropriate to the conditions prevailing at the time, instead of having imposed upon them a maximum of 30 m.p.h. . . . This marks the beginning of a new era in road travel, the benefits of which we shall be able to pass

on to our passengers in due course as new motorways come into being in various parts of the country.

"Today, under favourable conditions, our express vehicles can average no more than 25 m.p.h., but upon the new motorways an average of 40 m.p.h. will be attained with less driving effort than 25 m.p.h. A 200-mile journey now taking eight hours will be accomplished in five."


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