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SIR DENIS Tausco-rr and DR. DONALD STEWART have been elected vice-chairmen of the Automobile Association.
MR. B. C. WREN has been re-elected chairman of the Southampton and District Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
MR. W. PARK KIRKWOOD, works manager of Albion Motors, Ltd., has been appointed a member of Glasgow Productivity Committee, the first body of its kind to be set up in Scotland.
MR. HERBERT JONES, general manager of Leigh Transport Department, has been appointed general manager at Lincoln, where he will succeed MR. F. Y. FRAZF.R, who is to take up the general managership at Aberdeen.
MR. W. J. CotatrNEv, of the Regent Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., and MR. E. S. SWEETSUR, of Union Tyre Supplies (Great Britain), Ltd., have been appointed chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the council of the Retread Manufacturers' Association.
LT.-Cot... A. C. PING has become chairman of the London centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. Other centre chairmen are as follows: Birmingham, MR. R. H. ADDLESEE; south-western, MR. S. H. BA/.LEY; Glasgow. MR. J. H. YOUNG; North Staffs, MR. E. G. DALE.
Ma, BERNARD WINTPRBOTTOM was last week re-elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association. MR. JAMES BARRIE, MR. R. G. CROWTHER and MR. J. H. MALE were re-elected national vice-chairmen. MR. C. W. H. SPARROW was elected the fourth vice-chairman in succession 110 MR. R. H. FARMER, who, as reported on page 489, has become a member of the Road Haulage Disposals Board.
MR. P. Cuoom-J OHNSON, C.B.E., M.I.C.E., chief engineer of London Transport, retires on June 20 after more than 40 years in the engineering profession. His association with transport in London dates from 1924 when he joined London County Council tramways as assistant permanent way engineer. A year later he was appointed permanent way engineer. When the London Passenger Transport Board was formed in 1933 he assumed the additional responsibility of the tracks and buildings taken over from the municipal and company tramway undertakings. In 1939 he became chief stores superintendent and in 1943 was appointed chief engineer (civil). In 1945 he took over responsibility for
electrical engineering a n d was appointed chief engineer. Among the projects on which Mr. Croom-Johnson has been engaged in recent years is the construction of the new Aldenham road service factory, now in hand.
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MR. H. S. ADAMS, publicity manager of Guy Motors, Ltd., has been reelected honorary treasurer of the Publicity Club of Wolverhampton.
MR. E. L. TAYLOR has succeeded MR. S. DUDMAN as chairman of the Public Transport Association. Mr. Dudman and MR. J. W. WOMAR are now Vicechairmen.
CLLR. R. WEIR, chairman of Blackburn Transport Committee, has been nominated for election as vice-president of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association.
BIG EQUIPMENT ORDER
AN order has been placed with Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., Acton Lane, London, N.W.10, by Morris-Commercial Cars, Ltd., for 3,000 sets of flush-fitting sliding-door equipment for use on LD1 and LD2 vans.
NEW GLACIER OFFSHOOT
A NEW subsidiary, Genuine Thin Wall Bearing Co., Ltd., With a nominal capital of £100, has been formed by the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd.