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MR. C. R. DASHWOOD has been appointed a director of the Bugham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., in place of Sir Ralph Cope, who has resigned.
M. E. L. OGLETHORPE, managing director of the Duramin Engineering Co., Ltd., has returned to business after undergoing a "successful operation to his leg. It is interesting to note that the trouble was cleared up by a bone graft assisted by Penicillin.
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MR. W. C. DEvEnEux is to relinquish his position as chairman and managing director of High .Duty Alloys, Ltd„ in order to devote himself to the scientific development and. applicationof aluminium alloys_raver a wider com mercial .field than hitherto He will retain the chairmanship of•International. Alloys, Ltd.
lkful F. MOLLOY, A.M.INsr.T., superintendent of Manchester Corporation's Queens Road bus garage, has retired after 33 years service with the municipal authority. One of the pioneers of the .Manchester :municipal bus undertaking; he has witnessed the fleet grow from three open-top doubledeckers to a fleet exceeding 1,000 vehicles.
• MR. ALEXANDER MACQUISTEN, general manager of the British Mexican Petroleum Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the Board of that crincern. He started -his business career with Andrew Weir and Co„ in 1920, joining the British Mexican concern in 1922. After gaining experience in most of. the company's departments for some .10 years, he was made general manager.
MR. HERBERT G. FIRTH, highways engineer of Leeds Corporation since .1937, will. retire at the end of Septem'her, after having served in the highways department for nearly 49 years.. During that period the mileage of roads in Leeds has increased from 320 to 687. Leeds was arnong the first towns to use cat's eye "..studs for the guidance of traffic at night. The number of such studs on the city's roads is now over 60,000.
Ma. W. H. SOULBY, transport manager of Colchester Corporation, recently received a presentation to mark his retirement after serving with the corporation since 1911. He has been associated with municipal transport for over 40 years In making the presentation, the chairman of the transport committee paid tribute to his work for the transport department, and especially to his services 'during the change-over from trams to buses.
MR._ ROBERT E. CROALL, director of John Croall and Sons, Ltd., Edinburgh, has been elected president • of the Scottish M.T:A. for the year 1945-46. This is not his first experience in that capacity, he having served as president in 1984-35. As one of his vice—I presidents, Mr. Croall has .nomiliated Mi. R. Anderson, who was unanirn
ously supported. The latter is a director of Anderson (Newton Mearns), Ltd., of Newton Mearns and Giffuock. Mr. S. j, Hutcheson, of Gale and Barclay, Ltd., Glasgow, is retiring from the chair and becomes immediate past president.
MR. PEARSON HORDER has been appointed public relations officer to Dowty Equipment, Ltd., a concern that is amongst the leaders in the design and manufacture of hydraulic equipment and aircraft undercarriages. Durins, the past. 18 months Mr. Horder has been with the public relations department of the London • _Press Exchange, specializing in work for the Daimler Co., Ltd., and was responsible for the exhibitions and clemOnstrationS of that maker's armoured fighting vehicles.
MAJOR D. G. GIBSON, MC., has been appointed sales manager to the well-known and old-established concern of Snowden, Sons and Co-., Ltd., of Millwall, a specialist in lubrication, which, as a war-time measure, has hen operating froniCraT,vley in Sussex, but will shortly be returning to new 'offices in London. Major Gibson has had considerable experience in the oil industry, and has returned following a further four years'-service in the Army. For the past nine months he was in command of an A.A. " Z " Regiment,. Royal Artillery.
MR. E. B. HowEs; chairman of Hauliers . Mutual Federation, whose portrait appears on this page, was elected chairman at the Manchester meeting on July 25, at which Was set up the new National Conference of Road Transport Associations. For ,many yearS a contributor to the tech Meal Press, be was the author of the
" A Common Sense Plan for Road Transport," which created a con, siderable measure of interest He was the pioneer of co-operative grouping, for which movement he has put in a lotof hard 'work and achieved much success. Heis a -director of A. Saunders and Son (Harpenden), Ltd., T. Rolt and Son (Harpenden), Ltd., " arid Central Garage (Luton), Ltd., aeL well as being the chairman of the .Saunders Co-operative Group of Companies.
MR. ARTHUR SMITH, a local clinCtO1 at Fort Dunlop, has completed 25 years' service with the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., which he joined from -the Royal Navy after -the 1914-18 war to become assistant to the commercial superintendent. Since then. he has held a variety of posts. in Manehester, Bristol and the Midlands. In 1926, he -went .to the Dunlop factory at Buffalo to study USA. commercial conditions in tyre trading. He became Assistant Rubber Controller with. the Ministry of Supply in 1942, to organize the collection of scrap rubber and' the production of reclaim rubber, and he was Deputy Director when be left Rubber Control to return to Fort Dunlop.
DR. HENRY EDWOrRD MERRITT, former Director of Tank nesign, is to inn). the Nuffield Organization as a. senior technical executive. It was his inventions relating to gear. generating machines which brought him into touch with David Brown and Sons,. Ltd., of Huddersfield, of whiCh he became chief engineer, until, in 1937, he was put in charge of Tank design at Woolwich Arsenal. In 1940, his transmission was adopted for most British heavy Tanks, • including all makes of Churchill, Centaur, Cromwell, Comet and later machines, and for this work he was awarded the M.B.E. With David Brown Tractors, Ltd., at Meltharn, he has done considerable research work on agricultural tractors. In the Nuffield Organization, he will specialize.in the development of transmission systems' for light arid heavy veli ides MR. HARRY CLARK, secretary of the West Riding Area of the-R.H.A., has been appointed chairman of the -Road Transport Section of Leeds Inept-porated Chamber of Commerce. He succeeds Mr. Stanley G. Hearn, of Carvers, Ltd., Leeds. For nearly 15 years, Mr. Clark has been engaged in the development and administration of organization among road-transport operators in Yorkshire. He first came into prominence in the north as secretary of the employers' panel of the old Yorkshire Joint Conciliation Board, in the stormy days before the introduction of the Road Haulage Wages Act. After this measure had, in effect, largely centralized wages negotiations in a national statntory• wages board, he took a leading part in founding the Federation of Yorkshire Road Transport Employers. He was secretary of this Organization from it inception until its absorption under the Perry_ scheme.