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been appointed to the sates staff of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd.
MR. R. G. PALMER. M.B.E., manauing director of Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., is reported to be seriously ill.
MR. J. M. E. FELL, overseas sales manager of A.E.C., Ltd., left last Sunday by au t for a short business tour in the Middle East. He will be visiting Istanbul, Ankara, Athens, Lydda, Cairo and other places.
M. J. B. ARCHIBALD ' and MR. J. CRosst.ev have been appointed representatives of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. Mr. Archibald will cover
Oxfordshire, Buck inghamshi re and Berkshire, and Mr. Crossley East Lancashire.
MR. N. J. MOORE. MR. F. W. BErrs and MR. R. H. BuRRows have been appointed additional sales representatives of Pirelli, Ltd., and will work in the London region. M. C. LEEDS has become sales representative in the Glasgow region, and MR. A. ENSOLL at the Newcastle depot.
MR. W. Y. SMITH-SAVILLE, general manager of Exeter Transport Department, was present at the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's eonference at Portsmouth, last week, far the first time for three years. He has been ill for two years, but is now well again and is back at duty.
MR. W. VANE MORLAND, general rnanager of Leeds Transport Department, was last week elected president for 1949-50 of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association. M.o. F. JArmEsoN, J.P., Mayor of Preston. and chairman of the transport committee, was appointed vice-president.
MR. J. W. MAteme, general sales manager of Nuffield Exports, and MR. K. L. ANDERSON, Who is in charge of the company's " knocked-down " department, are shortly to visit South Africa to negotiate with the Union Government on the question of importing "knocked-down" vehicles.
MR. BEN HALL, general manager of Portsmouth Corporation's transport undertaking, will on January 13 next, have completed 50 years' service with the department. Tributes to him were paid by various speakers at the annual conference of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association at Portsmouth, last week.
MR. S. E. C. SOYSA, technical assistant to the Commissioner of Transport, Ceylon, has returned to his own country after a visit to Britain to study transport methods. He was gre a tl y impressed by the efficiency of vehicles and operation in the United Kingdom and by the courtesy of transport operatives.
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MR. J. HARRISON. general manager of A. W. Chapman. Ltd., has been appointed to the board. During his career he has served with -the Leyland, Dennis and Brush companies.
MR. H. CHAPPELL has been elected chairman of the north-eastern centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. He succeeds MR. P. M. BAKER, Who held the office for three years.
MR. F. R. DontisoN has been appointed assistant regional manager of the Manchester region of Pirelli, Ltd. It is a newly created post and he will work in close collaboration with MR. T. C. PERK:NS, regional manager. Mr. Dodgson has been depot manager at Newcastle-upon-Tyne since 1936 and is succeeded there by MR. F. BRueres.
MR. J. A. -DAvrEs, director and general manager of Newbury and District Motor .Services, 'Ltd., and a director of Venture, Ltd.: Basingstoke, is to be appointed Managing director of the Guernsey . Railway Co., Ltd., as from July 1, He will be succeeded by MR. L. H. GRIMMETT, area manager at Stroud for Red and White Services, Ltd.
MR. GEORGE F. SINCLAIR, C.B.E., has been elected chairman of the Public Transport Association, in succession to M. RAYMOND BIRCH, M.I.Mech.E, MR. JOHN WAITS has retired from the vice-chairmanship after four years, and MR. W. T. JAMES, 0.B.E., and MR. R. I. H. LONGMAN have been elected vice-chairmen for the ensuing year.
MR. J. CHEETHAM has been transferred from the Bradford works of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., to be works manager of the associated factory in New Zealand. Mr. R. D. UMPLEBY, a director of Hepworth and Grandage. Ltd., who sailed to New Zealand with Mr. and Mrs. Cheetham, will return to Bradford when the Auckland factory has got into its stride.