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MR. KEITH NOBLE has left England to join the engine service team of F. Perkins, Ltd., in Australia.
MR. E. P. HOLMES has been appointed chief industrial engineer of the Conveyancer Fork Truck CO., Ltd.
MR. D. RENWICK has been appointed Tyneside representative of Pirelli, Ltd. MR. G. W. BAXTER is to represent the company in West Yorkshire.
MR. P. A. ALLEN, A.C.A., has been appointed a director of, and financial adviser to, Brown Brothers, Ltd. He is resigning his joint managing directorship of Initial Services, lid.
MR. D. A. C. DEWDNEY has been appointed co-ordinator of refinery operations of the Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. Since 1949 he has been research manager of the Esso Development Co.
MR. JOHN COOPER. M.INST.T.,
F.C.I.S., A.I.C.W.A., general manager of Northampton Transport Department, has been recommended to succeed MR. CHARLES STAFFORD as general manager of Leicester Transport Department.
MR. H. T. DUTFIELD, Minst.T., a part-time member of the Road Haulage Executive, has succeeded SIR JAMES MILNE, K.C.V.O., C.S.I., as chairman of the Special Traffics (Pickfords) Division. Other members of the board include MR. N. R. BELLWOOD, MR. C. K. BIRD, MR. C. BOS'EOCK. MR, H. F.i.r.torr and Ma. S. E. RAYMOND.
MR. C. R. TATTAM, general manager of Bradford Transport Department, is to retire shortly. Among the applicants• for the post he will vacate are MR. F. E. COOK, Halifax general manager; MR, J. COOPER. Northampton general manager; Ma. J. E. FRITH, Derby general manager: MR. C. T. HUMPIDGE, Rochdale general manager, and MR. R. MACKENZIE. Midland divisional engineer of the Road Haulage Executive. MR. P. E. LAZARUS has succeeded MR. R. WRIGHT as private secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport.
MR. F. D. WRictir and MR. 0. WRIGHT, directors of the nationalized concern of Wright Bros. (London), Ltd., are emigrating to Australia to embark on a business venture.
PRESENTATION TO MR. QUICK SMITH
SO well had the foundations of the Meat Transport Organization, Ltd., been laid, that its basic form had survived through vast changes in the structure of the transport industry in general.
This tribute to the work of Mr. G. W. Quick Smith in building up the M.T.O.L. was paid last week by Mr. H. F. Minter, managing director, when Mr. Quick Smith was presented with an Elizabethan oak desk as a mark of appreciation of his services. Now secretary of the Road Haulage Executive, he is no longer on the board of the M.T.O.L.
NEW REGISTRATIONS STEADY
REGISTRATIONS of new vehicles, other than cars and motorcycles, totalled 12,537 in October, compared with 12,463 in September. As the following table shows, the total for the first 10 months of 1950' was 132,692:—