Men in the News
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MR. C. C. OAKHAM, general manager of Lancashire United Transport, Ltd.. has been elected a director of the company. His title is now director and general manager.
MR. A, E. FAIRFIELD has been appointed. manager, tyre services, of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd. He is working from Wolverhampton to handle special tyre assignments.
MR. BRIAN LANNON has been appointed manager of the Manchester branch of Astley Industrial Trust, Ltd. MR. K. D. MACGREGOR-BOWRON is now Midlands manager of the company's Industrial Service Division.
MR. G. F. HARVEY, former secretaryaccountant of City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., has been appointed secretary-accountant of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., in succession to MR. E. A. YEOMANS, who has retired.
MR. HAROLD SMITH, chairman of General Chemicals Division for the past two years, has been appointed a director of I.C.I. He will take over as technical director from DR. RICHARD BEECHING on June I, when Dr. Beeching becomes chairman of the new British Transport Board.
MR. E. J. HUNTER, chairman of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., MR. J. R. EDWARDS, managing director, Pressed Steel, Company, and the Hort_ GEOFFREY Rooms, deputy chairman and managing director of Humber, Ltd., have been elected vice-presidents of the Institution of Works Managers.
MR. J. H. PITCHFORD, managing and joint technical director of Ricardo and Co. Engineers (1927), Ltd., was recently inducted at Geneva as president of the Federation Internationale des Societies des Ingenieurs de Techniques de l'Automobile (F.I.S.I.T.A.), in succession to MONSIEUR FERNAND PICARD, Regie Nationale des Usines Renault of France. " MR. A. J. fierYcE has been appointed manager of the newly fanned research and marketing division of Romac Industries, Ltd., The _Hyde, Hendon. N.W.9.
MR, D. HoLmEs has been appointed private secretary to MR. Joi-rN HAY, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in succession to MR. G. S. RIDDLE.
MR. EDWARD S. BONSER, 53-year-old managing director of the Wagon Finance Corporation, Ltd., has been elected chairman of the company. He will combine the office with his present post of managing director of the parent comPany and of its operating subsidiary, Union Transport Finance, Ltd.
MR. A. J. R. BRUCE, formerly assistant export service manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been appointed sales manager of the company's Industrial Units Division. MR. P. T. REDFERN, formerly sales engineer of the Industrial Units Division, has been appointed assistant sales manager.
MR, J. H. BREBNER has resigned from his post as public relations adviser to the British Transport Commission. His distinguished career in public relations has included service with the General Post Office, the Ministry of Information and London Transport. In 1937 Mr. Brebner was appointed a member of the committee for the creation of the Ministry of Information and held the post of director of the News Division under seven Ministers. During the war, while in Cairo, be arranged Press conferences for Sir Winston Churchill arid other Ministers, and was also appointed head of an Anglo-American Mission to General Eisenhower. In addition to British awards, which include the O.B.E. Mr. Brebner has been honoured for his services by the American, French and Netherlands Governments. Because of pending changes in British Transport Commission organization, it is not proposed at this time to appoint a successor to Mr. Brebner. MR. H. G. MORLEY, deputy manager and traffic manager of Nottingham Corporation transport department, is to retire next month. He has been with The Nottingham undertaking for 51 years and has held his present post for 21 years. Mr. Morley joined Nottingham as a junior clerk and became traffic superintendent in 1930.
MR. GERARD YOUNG, chairman of Tempered Group, Ltd., Sheffield, is at present on a visit to America to appoint distributors for various Group products, including automotive and agricultural springs.
Obituary
WE record with deep regret the deaths " Of MR. ROBERT SQUIRE and MR. JOHN MARCITINGTON.
Mr. Squire, works director of Crypton Equipment, of Bridgwater, a company in the Metal Industries Group, died recently after a long illness. He was 62.
Mr. Marchington, chairman and managing director of John Marchington and Sons, Ltd., was a pioneer in road transport in the Peak district. He lived at Hallsteads, Dove Holes, and was 65, He had been in the haulage business since leaving school, and was one of the first operators in the Peak district to use diesel-engined vehicles: