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MR. FRED SHAW, of Birkenhead, has been appointed rolling-stock superintendent in the transport department of
• Middlesbrough Corporation, MR. DAVID WILSON COATES, C.B . E. , M.A., LL.B., chief accountant of the Central Electricity Board, has been appointed honorary financial adviser to the Petroleum Department.
MR. G. N. WILSON, who has been acting chairman since the outbreak of war, in the absence of Earl Howe, who is on active service, has been elected chairman of the British Road Federation for the duration of the war.
MR. G. J. Jorar, who prior to the war was in charge of the Southampton branch of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has recently taken up a war-time appointment with the Rubber Control Board, One of his immediate jobs is assisting Mr. Arthur Smith, who is in charge of the wasterubber salvage campaign.
MR. A. V. HERRINGTON, head of the Marmon-Herrington Co., _Indianapolis; has been elected president of the Society of Automotive Engineers of America. "Colonel " Herrington, as he is often known, was born near .Ipswich, but left for America when he was five years' old. After service with the A.E.F. in France in the W4-18 war, he became impressed with the need for specially designed. cross-country vehicles for military service. From 1931 onwards. he developed his ideas in conjunctiorr
with, the late Mr. Walter Marmon. Until the present war started, Mr. Herrington spent much of his time visiting distant lands, selling them mechanized equipment.
ME. W. H. FENTON has relinquished his post of chief clerk and cashier to the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., on retirement after 46 years' service in passenger road transport in the West Riding of Yorkshire. That service began in the steam-tram days, when Mr. Fenton entered the employ of the old Dewsbury, •Batley and Birstall Tramways Co., Ltd.
MR. G. R. MIDDLETON, group• transport manager of I.C.I. Metals, Ltd., Birmingham, has been elected an associate-member of the Institute of Transport,. as have MR. J. REDMOND, depot manager of Northern Motor Utilities, Ltd,, Birmingham, Ma. G. W. REID., acting manager, road motor services, South African Railways and Harbours, and MR. V. G. Snamoars, of the • transport department of Manchester Corporation.
MR. J. F. Snarl:1Es, of J. A., Webster and Co., Ltd., haulage contractor, was elected president in succession to Mr. W. J. Harper, who had held that office for six years, •at the first Meeting of the newly elected committee Of the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners' Association. , MR. Jamas WALKER, of Messrs. J. W. Walker and Sons, was appointed vice-presi. dent, and MR. FRANK IRVING, bon. treasurer.