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Men in the News
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MR. J. F. MacGttuvRay has been appointed group personnel manager of the British Tyre-and Rubber Co., Ltd., and their subsidiaries.
MR. W. F. HUSBAND, public relations organizer of Auto Tyre Services, Ltd., is severing his connection with ihe company, as their public relations department is to be closed down. He joined the concern in 1947 and now intends to open his own Press agency.
MR. A. P. WICKENS, chief engineer of armament design, Ministry of Supply, has been appointed manager. industrial tractors, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Mr. Wickens. who will have the status of special director, will commence his new duties on Monday.
Ma. L. P. COOMBES has been appointed K.D. engineer to the British Motor Corporation, Ltd. He will coordinate the K.D. engineering divisions of the Nuffield and Austin companies. Joining Nuffield in 1941, he became chief planning engineer of Morris Motors' car branch in 1943. In 1948, he was appointed K.D. engineer.
MR. J. W. GANNICLIFFE, group manager of the mid-Cheshire group of British Road Services, has been appointed Liverpool manager of Silver Roadways, Ltd. For 14 years before their nationalization, Mr. Gannicliffe was northern manager of A. J. Gupwell (Transport), Ltd., and he was at one time associated with Smith and Christmas, Ltd.
Ma. G. E. L1ARDET, chairman and managing director of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has completed 25 years' service with the company. He started work in the Simms repair shop in 1929. He was later appointed Edinburgh branch manager, and sales manager in 1933. Elected a director in 1943, he was made joint managing director in 1950 and chairman and managing director in 1953.
MR. P. A. HORNBLOW has been appointed Swansea area traffic superintendent of the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., and MR. R. K. SC(JDAMORE, Llanelly area traffic superintendent. Mr. Hornblow joined a company of motor distributors after the war and became sales manager at Bridgend. In 1951 he was accepted as a trainee under the B.E.T. training scheme and for the past three years has been with Southdown Motor Services, Ltd. Mr. Scudamore joined the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., in 1930 and in 1946 was appointed assistant to the Cross Keys depot area manager. Three years later he became assistant manager of the Cardiff office of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., and rejoined Western Welsh in 1952.
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MR. J. E. WALKER has been elected chairman and Ma. J. S. WRIGHT vicechairman of Wolverhampton Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. The secretary is Ma. J. W. BUTCHER.
Ma. JOE-IN ROBERTSON has been elected chairman of Inverness Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, with Ma. ID. Scon as vice-chairman. MR. R. M. YOUNG has been appointed secretary.
Ma. J. T. PANKS has been appointed general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., New York, the distributing company for Rootes products in the U.S.A. He has also been appointed to the board of the American company.
MR. A. SMART has been elected chairman of the Wolverhampton Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association. The vice-chairmen are MR. E. A. BETTELEY and MR. G. H. RATaleeR. and MR. S. ELL1NGFORD is honorary secretary.
MR. JOHN MILLER and MR. J. MCGREGOR have been elected vicepresidents of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses. The chairman is Ma. J. W. Elias, vicechairman MR. H. FIRTH, and honorary treasurer MR. STEVE EASTMEAD.
MR. G. L. SMITH has been appointed traffic superintendent of Leigh Transport Department. He succeeds MR. H. LowL, who is now general manager. Mr. Smith, who will take up his new post on Monday, is traffic superintendent of Rawtenstall Transport Department.
MR. FAZAL-UL-HAQ, assistant works manager of the Government Transport Service in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, has arrived in this country for training under the arrangements of the Colombo Plan. He will receive his training from Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Eastern Coach Works, Ltd. Later, he will visit engine and vehicle manufacturers.
COMBINED PUBLICITY QELECTED points in North and East s-) London will be visited during the next week or so by a -mobile cinema temporarily converted from a 41-seat coach operated by George Ewer and Co., Ltd.
The conversion was effected by the operators in co-operation with Clactonon-Sea Urban District Council, whose publicity officer will present a 15-minute colour film of holidays at Clacton. Copies of the operators' time-tables will be distributed during the film shows.