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MR. W. A. HUNT has been appointed to the board of Scammell Lorries, Ltd. He is also a director of R. Hunt and Co., Ltd.
MR. Amu R T. FRoGGATT, chairman and joint managing director of Weyrnanns. Ltd., has been re-elected president of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers.
MR. G. F. SINCLAIR, C.B.E., deputy general manager (road services) of London Transport, has been presented with the Order of Patriotic War First Class, which has been conferred upon him by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of U .S.S.R.
MR. L. P. LORD, chairman and managing director of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., left England for America on
May 17. He sailed in the "Queen Elizabeth," and enpects to return to Longbridge Works during the first week in July.
Ma. W. M. B. BURRIDGE has received a presentation from the Western Counties Division of Motor Agents' Asiociation in appreciation of his services as chairman during the war. MR, W. H. HARTWELL is the new chairman
of the division.
MR. HORACE SHANKLAND, local director of national sales of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has just completed 50 years' active service in the tyre industry. He was with the Shrewsbury and Challiner Tyre Co., Ltd., of Manchester. when hansom cabs and fourwheelers first turned over to solid rubber tyres. Mr. Shankland was president in 1941 of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry, a member of the Institute of Transport, of the committee of the Royal Automobile Club and of the mileage group committee of the Tyre Manufacturers' Conference.
LIEUT. COL. H. E. Mitt:wax, M.I.MEca.E., has succeeded the late Major E. G. E. Beaumont, 0.B.E., as consulting mechanical engineer to the N.R.T.F. and its three constituent bodies, His services are available to members, on preferential terms, in respect of such matters as the construction and operationof motor vehicles, the layout of repair shops and the selection of machinery and plant. He can also undertake the inspection of vehicles or machinery and prepare reports, and act as an expert witness, referee or arbitrator. Preliminary consideration of such matters is given free, but all inquiries must be addressed to the secretary of the respective body.
MR. STEN MELLGREN, Hon. M.I.R.T.E., the subject of an accompanying portrait, who is Editor of "Lastbilen," the official organ of the Swedish roadhaulage association, has, with his wife, been visiting Britain. They were the guests of the President of the I.R.T.E.
A28" and some of its members. During their stay they were entertained by Morris Motors, Ltd., Cowley, Oxford, and Dennis Bros., Ltd., Guildford, and were guests of honour at a luncheon given by Mr. H. T. Dutfield, chairman of the N.R.T.F. and R.H.A. It was Mr. Mellgren who had so much to do with the organizing of the visit of over 50 members of the I.R.T.E. to Sweden last October. All who met him there and here were impressed by his extensive knowledge of road transport and both he and Mrs. Mellgren were enthusiastic in their study of conditions in Britain.
DATA SHEETS ON LIGHT ALLOYS
DESIGNED to give potential users of light-alloy or zinc-base castings all essential particulars of the properties of the alloys in more general use, a recent publication of the Birmingham Aluminium Casting (1903) Co., Ltd., should be of great assistance to designers and production engineers.
The information given includes details of typical physical and mechanical properties of the alloys concerned, the characteristics and uses of sand-cast, gravity die-cast, and pressure die-castings in light-alloy metals, together with composition and property tables of the various alloys according to the casting techniques employed.
It should prove an invaluable publication to all those concerned with the application of light-metal castings to chassis and body construction.