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MR. R. W. SEWILL, national director of A.R.O., has made a good recovery from his recent operation for appendicitis and has now returned to his duties.
MR. J. W. WRIGHT, whose portrait appears on this page, has been appointed general manager of 'Baico Patents, Ltd., High Read, Chiswick,' London, W.4. Ile has had a long and varied experience in adapting various chassis to individual requirements, having represented the Baico concern in the north of England and Scotland for the past nine years.
Glasgow Town Council has decided to appoint MR. R. T. SMITH, at present traffic superintendent of the transport department, to be deputy general manager, in succession to MR. J. WILSON, now general manager.
MR. L. H. POMEROY has, it is announced, resigned his position with the Daimler Co., Ltd. It was in 1928 that be joined the, company as general manager, being appointed managing Erector in 1929.
The London County Council general purposes committee recommends the appointment of MESSRS. F. BERTRAM GALER, M.A., F.I.A., J.P., CHARLES LATHAM, F.L.A.A., J.P., BASIL IVIARS
DEN-SMEDLEY, J. R. OLDFIET_D, JOHN SPEAKMAN, J.P., and G. RUSSELL STRAUSS, M.P., as representatives of the council on the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee for three years commencing July 1.
COLIN, R. -W. MARSHALL, a wellknown Blackpool coach operator, was included in a party of local municipal officials who embarked, last week, on a 3,000-mile air tour of principal continental cities.
MR. WILLIAM S. QUINSEY, engineer to the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Transport, Ltd., Dewsbury, was the recipient of presentations from the directors and staff of the company upon leaving to take up an appointment as chief engineer of the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., Stockport.
VISCOUNT TRENCHARD, G.C.B., D.S.O., LL.D., Marshal of the Royal Air Force, has rejoined the board of directors of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., Wolverhampton. He was formerly a director of the company, but resigned when he became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1931.
SIR ALFRED READ has been elected president of the Institute of Transport for the year commencing October 1 next. He is chairman and managing director of Coast Lines, Ltd., and is a member of the Port of London Authority and the Transport Advisory Council. A foundation member of The Institute, he served on the council from 1419-1922, and was vice-president from 1927-1930.
The following were elected vice-presiclents:—Messrs. E. C. Cox, C.B,E., M.V.O. (traffic manager, Southern Railway); H. N. Gresley, C.B.E. (chief mechanical engineer. London and North Eastern Railway); J. Paterson, M.C. (managing director, Carter Paterson and Co., Ltd.); 0. Cecil Power (traffic manager, Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd,); D. RossJohnson, C.B.E. (formerly general manager and secretary, Port of Bristol Authority); T. H. Watermeyer (general manager, South African Railways and Harbours).