Mr. Henry H. Merchant, director and general manager of Cumberland
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Motor Services since 1950, is retiring at the end of December. He came to the C.M.S. head office at Whitehaven after five years at Dumfries as general manager of the Caledonian Omnibus Company.
Arthur R. Morgan, manager, plant builders department, Castro] Industrial, Ltd., has retired after 43 years' service to the Castrol Group.
Mr. Stewart Eden-Smith has been appointed sales manager of the Nightingale Engineering Co., Ltd.
Mr. John R. Strafford has been appointed sales manager of Polypenco Engineering Industrial Plastics.
Mr. Kenneth Pope has been appointed Press officer to the British Omnibus Companies public relations committee in succession to the late Mr. Alban Ford. Mr. Pope will take up his duties on October 29, 1962.
The bulk sales section of Mobil Oil Company's consumer department has been renamed Wholesale Fuels department. Manager of the department is Mr. A. G. Lang, who will be responsible for all fuel oil sales and relations with Mobil's Fuel Oil distributors. He will also handle Government aviation fuel contracts.
Commodore Earl Howe and Mr. A. S. C. Chattey have resigned from the Board of Associated Commercial Vehicles.
Mr. D. S. A. Carroll has been appointed a director of the Irish Dunlop Company. He is chairman and managing director of J. P. Carroll and Co., Ltd., and deputy governor of the Bank of Ireland. transport subsidiaries. After a period in the Army during the war, he was released for service with the Ministry of War Transport as divisional road haulage officer for the South Eastern Division. During 1944 he was recalled to the Army as Colonel in charge of the Road Transport Section, Military Government 21 Army Group. In 1945 he became responsible to the Director of Military Government for the reorganization and control of German civilian road transport in the British Zone, and later that year was appointed Deputy Director General of the Highways and Highways Transport Branch of the Transport Division, Control Commission for Germany. Mr. Garrett returned in 1946 to the Ministry of War Transport. He joined British Road Services in 1948.
Mr. .Sleeman, who died on Saturday, was managing director of Valliant Direct Coaches, Ltd., London, W.5. He joined the Arlington Motor Co., Ltd.. some 15 years ago, being later appointed a director. He was responsible for p.s.v. and heavy commercial vehicle sales at the Arlington Vauxhall Bridge Road depot. Arlington acquired Valliant in 1947, and in 1953 Mr. Sleeman resigned his Arlington directorship to take his Valliant post..
Mr. MacBrayne, a former general manager of David MacBrayne, Ltd., shipowners and road transport operators. died at Oban at the age of 57. only three years after he retired owing to ill-health.
Dr. Pferdmenges. a director of the Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG commercial vehicles manufacturing concern, of Cologne, Germany, was 82. He played a leading role in post-war German politics and within the governing Christian Democratic party.