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MR, FREDER IC K GEoka tr. SMITH, NIA A .E., F.I.M,T , managing director. of F. G. Smith (Motors), Ltd., Good n?ayes, Essex, has, it is announced by the Director G6neral of the Ministry of .War Transport, been appointed Repairs Adviser in the Road Transport Division of the Ministry He will give full-time services in an honorary capacity, and has already taken up' his duties in this connection. • This has necessitated his resignation from the Presidency of the Motor Agents' Association. He is a member of the Council of the S.M.M. and T., and was a member of the Road Vehicle Maintenance Advisory Committee; which recently submitted its Report to the Ministers of Supply and of War Transport Mr.. Smith received his early training as a pupil of John Penn's Engineering Works at Green-. wich,,which was the marine side of the Thames Iron Works, Ltd. Following this, he spent several years as a draughtsman to the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co., Ltd., of Birmingham. It was in 1909 that he started his present business, and since that time has been engaged on the repair of vehicles and work of a kindred nature, lie should certainly be a round peg in a round hole.
MR. GEORGE W. LUCAS, governing director of Messrs. Perrin's, of Southampton, has accepted the invitation of the Motor Agents' Association to become President of that body following the resignation of Mr. F. G. Smith, and his election to this office took place on August 20. Mr, Lucas is one of the most energetic personalities on his side of the motor industry, and was largely responsible for the formation by the Ministry of ‘KaT Transport of the Motor Transport Maintenance Advisory Committee. In his new post he will he able to pursue vigorously a policy which should be advantageous to agents and repairers. For many_ months Mr. Lucas devoted much of his time to pressing the demand for repair facilities.