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Men in the News
MR. A. A. I. HUDKM has become stores controller-buyer of Holmes (Preston), Ltd.
MR, J. W. ETHERINGTON, a Beverley haulier, has been elected a member of Beverley Borough Council.
MR. H. H. Bans has succeeded MR. A. FilTTINGER as chairman a the National I3enzole Co., Ltd., and continues as managing director.
Ma. L. M. BROADWAY, managing director of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the board of the Port of London Authority.
MR. H. WEEDY, general manager of Jamaica Omnibus Services, Ltd., is exchanging posts with MR. I. L. GRAY, general manager of the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd.
MR. A. Porrs, general manager of Blackburn Transport Department, is to resign because of ill-health. He will be succeeded by MR. J. HARRISON, at present acting general manager.
MR, A. CoteNOR has been re-elected chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Region of the Institute of the Motor Industry. MR. A. LUCKES is treasurer and MR. J. F. LUXTON secretary.
MR. J. M. BIRCH has succeeded MR. E. L. TAYLOR as chairman of the Public Transport Association. MR. T. ROBERT WILLIAMS and MR. P. G. STONE CLARK are the vice-chairmen for the ensuing year.
MR. D. BURGESS, formerly Rootes Group planning officer, has been appointed to the boards of Cornmer Cars, Ltd., and Karrier Motors, Ltd. He will assume the responsibilities of
works manager.
MR. J. HEWSON, managing director of Hewson Bros. (Howden), Ltd., and Hewson Bros. (Hull), Ltd., and MR. F. Wrwaorr, principal of Messrs. WitImott's Motors, have been re-elected to Howden Rural District Council.
MR. W. H. ANDREWS, general manager of Birmingham Sajvage Department, is to be the president of the Institute of Public Cleansing for the year 1955-56. MR. R. G. Ton-v, cleansing superintendent and transport manager at Stoke-on-Trent, has been nominated as president of the Institute for 1956-57.
MR. W. P. KIRKWOOD, a director of Albion Motors, Ltd., is the new chairman of the Scottish Centre of the Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. MR. F. C. TICK ELL has been appointed chairman of the Birmingham Centre and MR. A. HOLMES FLETCHER chairman of the Derby Centre.
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MR. G. L. NEAIE has been appointed London executive manager of the Equity Credit Co., Ltd.
MR. W. PERCIVAL has retired from his post as general manager of the Venture Transport Co., Ltd. He joined the company 21 years ago.
MR. JOHN SHELLEY, of F. Perkins, Ltd., is to carry out a market survey of Ethiopia and the Aden Protectorate. He will be away for a month.
MR. W. G. COPESTAKE, chief engineer of Birmingham Transport Department, has been appointed deputy general manager and chief engineer. He has been with the department for 25 years.
MR. J. T. RYMER, managing director of Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd., has joined the board of Metal Industries, Ltd., the parent concern. He will serVe also as chairman of the Sentinel company, MR. R. CHAFERS (F. Chivers and Sons) has been elected chairman of Devizes Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. MR. P. A. KENT (A. E. Farr, Ltd.), is vice-chairman, and MR. E. R. StrowEEks, honorary secretary.
DR. F. LLEWELLYN SMITH, managing director of the motorcar division of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in succession to MR. A. B. WARING, chairman and joint managing director of Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd., who becomes deputy president. The two vice-presidents are MR. R. F. Names, vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organization and a director of the British Motor Corporation, who continues in that office for another year, and MR. F. PERKINS, chairman and managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., who succeeds Dr. Llewellyn Smith. Mm.-GEN. I. S. CRAWFORD, director of Guy Motors, Ltd., has been re-elected for a third term as treasurer.
GLASGOW TO BAN WAITING " MO WAITING" is to be applied to
1 several main streets in Glasgow from noon moil 6 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Unilateral parking on alternate sides of the road .will apply in other streets from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
The Ministry of Transport has suggested a slight increase in permitted waiting time in certain streets. The Minister has proposed that the period of waiting in official parking places be limited to two hours and that parking meters be used experimentally in due course.