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28th July 1961, Page 34
28th July 1961
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Mr. M. C. F. Pettit has been appointed assistant sales manager of Paynes Jiffytape, Ltd. (London).

Mr. A. W. Edlin has been appointed a director of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Brentford. Mr. Edlin, who has held the position of company secretary since 1930, joined Firestone in 1920.

Mr. J. V. Woods has been appointed production manager, at the King's Norton (Birmingham) factory of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd. Mr. Woods was formerly in charge of toughened safetyglass production and has been succeeded in that post by Mr. P. Fineman.

Mr. H. Edwards, formerly Sheffield' branch manager of Bowmaker. Ltd., has been appointed manager at the Wolverhampton office. Mr. M. Wallace takes over the Sheffield office, and Mr. S. P. Patterson moves to the appointment vacated by Mr. Wallace at Middlesbrough, .Mr. W. N. Collins has resigned as assistant managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., and from the company's board and the hoards of its subsidiary companies. Mr. Collins reaches the retirement age within the Group early in 1962. It is not intended that his connection with the Group should be entirely severed immediately, but that the burden of his duties should be gradually lightened.

Mr. C. H. M. Baker, a director of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has been appointed president of the Federation of British Rubber and Allied Manufacturers for the year 1961-62: The new vice-presidents are Mr. D. E. Cameron, chairman and managing director of the B.B. Chemical Co„ Ltd., and Mr. D. D. Marshall, managing director of the Greengate and lrwell Rubber Co., Ltd.

Mr. Christopher T. Brunner, chairman of the council of' the London office of the International Road Federation, has been appointed chairman of the British National Committee of the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses, in succession to Major H. E.

Aldington. Mr. Brunner is a director of Shell-Mex and &P.. Ltd., and also of the National Benzoic Co., Ltd., and of the Power Petroleum Co., Ltd.

Obituary

WE record with-deep regret the death of Mr. Robert Barr, which took place in hospital at Leeds last week. Mr. Barr, who was 71, was apprenticed as a youth to a Leeds firm of motor engineers and in 1913 went into business on his own account with a convertible goods

passenger vehicle. From this modest start he rose to become chairman of the Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust. Ltd., and to be recognized as one of the nation's authorities on road transport matters. He was chairman of the Institute of Tr•nsport, Yorkshire section, in 1953.

A32 AVELINGS BUY HOVERINGHAM

A VEL1NG-BARFORD, LTD., have bought Hoveringham Engineering Co., Ltd., from Hoveringham Gravels, Ltd., for about £300,000. Hoveringham Engineering Co., Ltd., are manufacturers of structural steelwork, colliery surface plant, conveyor systems and mechanical handling equipment. They will continue to operate. under their own name within the Aveling-Barford Group.

Disposal of the Engineering Company will enable Hoveringham Gravels, Ltd., to concentrate entirely on their sand and gravel interests. They will also, as part of the contract and subject to satisfactory price arrangements, obtain all their gravel • plants for the next 10 years from the Aveling-Barford Group of Companies.


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