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Mr. J. P. Kennedy, at present chief engineer of Cumberland
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Motor Services Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd. with effect from June 1. Mr. Kennedy has held various engineering posts in the Tilling Group.
At the annual general Meeting of the Institute of Traffic Administration, Mr. F. R. Pywell (Shell-Mex and BP Ltd.) was elected chairman of the national council; another new election was that of Mr. K. J. P. Bowyer (Bowyer Plant Hire and Transport Ltd.) as national treasurer. A new trustee is Mr. F. N. White.
Mr. P. W. Seligman, deputy chairman and managing director of APV Holdings Ltd., has been appointed chairman of the company in the place of Mr. William F. Jenkins, who retired after, the annual general meeting last week. Mr. H. P. N. Benson-. will become deputy chairman and both mill remain managing directors.
Mr. L. Weston has been appointed transport manager for Birmingham Co operative Society Ltd. He h a d previously been acting manager since November, 1964. Mr. Weston started his career with the Society in 1928. .„
Mr. P. G. Walker has been appointed deputy chairman and chief executive of Hoveringham Gravels Ltd; Mr. G. N. hey, formerly deputy to the director of supply, British Motor Corporation, has been appointed a deputy director of production, BMC. with the responsibility of all paint, trim and assembly of passenger vehicles and their derivatives. He is also appointed .to the board of Morris Motors Ltd. Mr. N. S. G. Jeffery, formerly chief buyer of Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., succeeds Mr. Hey as deputy to the director of supply, BMC.
Mr. I. Strachan has been appointed sales manager, motor trade division, of , Tecalemit (Engineering) Ltd.
Publicity manager of Vauxhall -Motors Ltd. since 1958. Mr. F. Groom retires at the end of this month, -being succeeded by Mr. A. Martin, at present advertising manager. Mr. R. C. Woolley has been appointed commercial vehicle sales Manager of The Austin Motor Co.. Ltd., in succession to Mr. A. G. Ball. Mr. Woolley has been assist ant commercial vehicle sales manager for two years. Mr. Ball becomes Austin ear sales manager following the retirement of Mr. E. A.. Webb.
Mr. J. F. A. Baker, who retired last month from the post of director of highway engineering at the Ministry of Transport, has been retained by the Automobile Association as its highways and traffic engineering adviser.
Mr. L. G. Oxford, managing director of Fram Fitters Ltd. Of Treforest. Glamorgan, has been appointed chairman of the company and executive vicepresident of Frain International Ltd., with special responsibilities for Europe, Africa and the Near East. Mr. W. J. Burnell, former] y assistant managing director, has been promoted to managing director.
Mr. S. E. Kay has taken up his appointment as technical manager of the Triplex Safety • Glass Co. Ltd.
Mr. B. C. Crocker, general works manager of Armstrong Patents Co.. Ltd., has been appointed to the board as works director.
The Minister of Transport has appointed CUr. T. H. Band a member of the Transport Users' „ Consultative Committee for the West Midland area.
The tyre management of the Avon group has been reorganized. Mr. W. D. T. Tapley, director, becoming responsible for management of all tyrt affairs except subsidiaries operating as UK. distributors, Mr. 1). L Gibson has become home sales manager (tyres), Mr. A. H. Ryan is original equipment sales manager, and Mr. J. Collins-Thomas is to be sales manager, mileage and special contracts. Mr. II. M. Reed will continue as export sales manager (tyres).
Mr. Neil H. Cryer has been appointed Midland area sales manager Of Scottish Land Development Ltd.; he waS previously in the North West.
• Mr. R. S. Till has been appointed executive director and commercial manager of the Automotive Products group of companies and will be based at the Leamington Spa headquarters.
Mr. A. W. Browne, chairman of The Chloride Electrical Storage Co. Ltd., is to retire next Month after 43 years with the company. He will be succeeded by Mr. Edward Powell, who will in addition continue his duties as managing director. Mr. A. F. Tame; works superintendent (road services, Aldenham) has been appointed works manager (road services) of London Transport with effect from July 5. He will succeed Mr. J. W. Wicks, who, as already announced, will become deputy chief mechaniCal engineer (road services) on that date. Mr. Tame, who is 53. joined London Transport in 1935 and, after various appointments left to join Cunliffe Owen Aircraft Ltd. at Southampton as works manager. He rejoined London Transport lb 1947 as section engineer at Chiswick works and took up his present position in '957.
International Harvester of Great .Britain Ltd. has appointed Mr. Guy H. Lyster as manager, motor truck sales, with headquarters' at the Carr Hill Works, Doncaster, where IT-I plans to start production Of commercial vehicles. Mr. Lyster started with IH in 1947 at the Wichita Motor, Truck office in -Kansas, subsequently holding managerial posts there and elsewhere. In 1960 he became the IH Export 'Co.'s motor truck representative for the Middle East
Obituary
WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. John Oldham, Mr. A. G. Probert and Mr. Charles W. Reeve.
a Mr. Oldham was chairman and joint managing director of Oldham and Son Ltd, He was 68, and had been in poor health for some weeks. He was one of the third generation of the Oldham family to manage the well-known battery and electrical equipment manufacturing business and in'recent years had taken a particular interest in the overseas activities of the company.
Mr. Probert was fo'r many years with the saes side of Thornycroft, but for the past three years has been sales manager of the Marston Motor Co. Ltd., London, N.15.
Mr. Reeve was a former chairman of Associated Commercial Vehicles Ltd. ahd AEC Ltd:, having joined AEC in 1915. He had held a variety of managerial posts with the two companies and -retired in 1953 when financial director of ACV. Fle had served on the councils of the SMMT and MTA. being president of the latter for the years 1922-23.