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• MR, PERCY W. HOWARD has been appointed managing director of the British Tyre and Rubber Co„ Ltd.
MR. H. A. WATKINSON has been appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport.
MR. J. G. R. WOODVINE has resigned from the boards of Metal Industries, Ltd., and Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd.
MR. A. W. LACK has been appointed general and agricultural representative of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., covering West Norfolk. MR. JOHN COOPER has beame service representative in the Eastern Counties, Mr. Lack's former position.
MR. L. SCHEPERS is to be appointed a managing director of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., the Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., and of N.V. de Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij With effect on January 1, 1952. MR. B. TH. W. VAN HASSELT has resigned from the directorgeneralship of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co MR, R. C. ALLEN, general sales manager of F. Perkins, Ltd.. and MR. T. R. ST. J. BROWNE, general service manager, have flown to India to visit operators ot Perkins engines in that country.
MR. C. A. ComrroN is to take up the appointment, on January 1, of assistant managing director of A.C.V. Sales, Ltd. He is at present director and commercial manager. MR. A. S. C. CHATTEY IS to become personal assistant to the chairman and will retain his position as director in charge of borne sales.
MR. A. W. WRIGHT, managing director of the Champion Sparking Plug Co.. Ltd., and MR. H. G. STARLEY, CAE,. director of sales, left in the " Quevi Elizabeth" on Wednesday for the .U.S.A. and Canada. They are visiting the company's factories in Toledo. Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. They wilt discuss short-term and long-term prospects for exports, and the domestic situation arising from rearmament. They are expected back in this country by the end of the year.