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Monty Prichard, managing director of the Perkins Engines Group, will
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deliver the opening address at a four-day annual convention of the United States Local and Short Haul Carriers' National Conference in Washington, DC on April 17. Several hundred trucking company executives and their wives are expected to attend the event.
Arthur R. Newman, traffic manager of Central SMT Co. Ltd. for the past seven years, has been appointed general manager of W. Alexander and Sons (Northern) Ltd. at Aberdeen. Mr. Newman has been connected with the transport industry since 1937, when he joined a Greenock firm of passenger transport operators, W. and R. Dunlop Ltd.
B. J. F. Dewson has been appointed a director of J. W. Roberts Ltd. (a Turner and Newall company), Norwich, Bolton, and will assume responsibility for production and research from July I.
W. H. Watkins has joined the executive staff of Links Commercial Vehicles Ltd., Dodge truck distributors, at Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno, as workshop manager. He was formerly with Oswald Tillotson Ltd., Newcastle, Staffs. C. R. Turner has been appointed retail sales manager. His previous appointments included service with the Chester Engineering Co. Ltd.
Spurfings Ltd. have appointed Stanley Strong as director and general manager of their main Vauxhall/Bedford dealership in ChiswickSpurlings (Chiswick) Ltd.
A. McDougall has been appointed surveyor (Scotland), BRS Federation Ltd. He was formerly technical assistant to the surveyor (Scotland) and has succeeded T. G. Barrows, who has joined a private practice.
A. C. Struthers, sales manager, manufacturers' sales division of The Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain) Ltd., has completed 35 years with the company and recently received his gold service pin.
Robert Anderson has succeeded William Amos as district superintendent of Scottish Onmibuses Ltd., at Galashiels. Mr. Anderson started as a parcels boy in 1930, later became a conductor and began driving in 1937. He was appointed an inspector in 1961.
Ronald T. Burns has been appointed an additional representative for Partco Ltd., vehicle component distributors, at the Southampton Way, London, branch.
J. Romney has been appointed chief technologist of Castrol Ltd. He became assistant group technical manager in 1952 and group technical manager in 1962.
Stanley V. Durban has been appointed chief inspector "special" at London Transport's Green Line control centre at Oxford Circus. Mr. Durban, who is 42. started his transport career in 1947 as a bus conductor at Merton garage. He transferred to Green Line coach work at the control centre in 1954 when he was promoted to inspector, and became a controller there eight years later. The automobile division of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has announced the following awards: W. E. Cowley, P. J. Robinson and J. Flack, of Associated Octel Co. Ltd., receive the Crompton Lanchester Medal (the highest award in automobile engineering) for their paper "Internal Combustion Engine Poppet Valves—a Study of Mechanical and Metallurgical Requirements". The Gresham Cooke Prize, awarded for papers enhancing exports of British vehicles and components, went to V. E. Gough, C. W. Barson, J. C. Hutchinson and D. H. James, of Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., for their paper "Tyre and Vehicle Vibration". The awards will be presented by the chairman of the automobile division at 6 p.m. on April 5.
Walter R. Stirling has joined Ferodo Ltd. as chief product engineer with overall responsibility for collaboration with the brake, clutch and vehicle manufacturers in the use of the company's products. Mr. Stirling's most recent appointment was chief product engineer with Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co. Ltd., which he joined in 1957.
Thomas Ward has been appointed mechanical superintendent, borough engineer's department, of the London Borough of Bromley. Mr. Ward was previously foreman engineering craftsman, Dartford Rural District Council.
Dave Woods, an employee of Scammell Lorries Ltd., has been placed on the selection short list for the cycling events in the Empire Games to he held in Jamaica this year.
John J. Donovan has been appointed a director of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co. Ltd., replacing C. Hankins, who has resigned.
W. J. Hill has been appointed sales manager (automotive) of the industrial division of the Castrol Group. Mr. Hill joined the Castrol organization in 1950.
Keith Buckby has been appointed by the York Trailer Co. Ltd. as manager of products application. Mr. Buckby started at York seven years ago as a draughtsman and subsequently became sales engineer and chief sales engineer.
Leslie G. Watson, formerly marketing and supply manager of Tecalemit Ltd., has been appointed to the board as marketing and supply director. Mr. Watson joined the company in 1948 as a technical representative.
A. W. Veness has been appointed to the boards of Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd. and Conveyancer-Raymond Ltd. as sales director. He has also joined the board of ConveyancerScott Electric Vehicles Ltd. L. Rumley, after 25 years with the group, has retired from his sales executive duties, but remains on the boards of Electro-Hydraulics Ltd. and Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd. R. A. Young has been appointed financial director of Electro-Hydraulics and Conveyancer Fork Trucks and has also joined the boards of Conveyancer-Scott Electric Vehicles and Conveyancer Plant Hire Ltd.
C. B. V. Neilson, technical director, has resigned from the boards of Electro-Hydraulics and Conveyancer Fork Trucks. Alan Whysall, export manager of Crosland Filters Ltd., has left on a four-week tour of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey to visit the company's agents and distributors and to cement existing business relationships.
RHA ELECTIONS
The following elections for 1966-7 have been made at sub-area meetings of the East Midland area of the RHA: Mansfield—I. Bramley, chairman; A. Pegg and B. Baker, vice-chairmen. Derby—H. Bonsai!, chairman; D. S. Ascott, J. Knifton and • R. Wilson, vice-chairmen. Worksop—C. W. Ellison, chairman; J. W. Partridge and N. Fearn, vice-chairmen. Scunthorpe—W. Archer, chairman; G. E. Johnson and A. Harvey, vice-chairmen. Nottingham- K. S. Robinson, chairman; W. M. Wood, M. J. Hemphrey and E. Fl. Shardlow, vice-chairmen. Boston—J. W. H. Smith, chairman; M. G. Bellamy, G. W. Pa and E. T. Morris, vicechairmen. Newark—A. Dickens, chairman; J. E. Ross, vice-chairman. South Derbys and Burton-on-Trent—T. A. Fisher, chairman; S. Adams and E. A. Long, vice-chairmen.
SCOTTISH ELECTIONS
At the annual general meeting of the Industrial Transport Association, Forth Division, the following were elected to serve on the committee for the next year —
Chairman, R. G. Torrance; vice-chairman, John Paul; secretary, J. Sherriff; asst. secretary, A. Raeside.
The association will be meeting at the rooms of the Scottish Liberal Club, 109 Princes Street. Edinburgh, from the April meeting onwards.
Fife Tipper Officers
The Fife and District Tipper Operators commenced their fifth year of operation with the following office bearers:— Chairman, W. McLucas, Bo'ness: vice-chairmen, William Cowan, Slarnanan, and R. Wilson, Townhill; secretary, T. Gatiens, John Hutchison Haulage Ltd.