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MR. E. M. SHEPHERD has been appointed general line representative of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., in the counties of Angus, Fife, Perth and Kinross.
MR. G. Wittimomr has been appointed general manager of David Robinson, Ltd., Redford, Austin distributors. He was previously manager of Sam Robbins, Ltd., Coventry, and of Marshal's (Cambridge), Ltd., Peterborough.
SIR HERBERT MANZONI, Birminghamls engineer and surveyor, is the new chairman of the general council of the British Standards Institution. SIR ROGER DUNCALFE has been re-elected president, and MR. JOFIN RYAN vicepresident.
MR. A. L. MARRIOTT, late depot superintendent of British Road Services, at Nottingham, has been appointed branch manager of Smith's of Eccles, Ltd. He is located at Garden City Chambers, Mansfield Road, Sherwood, Nottingham.
• MR. W. N. COLLINS, marketing director of F. Perkins, Ltd., has been appointed to represent accessory and component manufacturers on the British manufacturers' committee of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
MR. J. T. LEONARD and MR. I. M. SMALLWOOD have joined the board of Carless, Cape] and Leonard, Ltd. Mr. J. T. Leonard is a son of MR. J. G. LEONARD, a director, and Mr. Smallwood joined the company a few years ago on the invitation of Ma. J. M. LEONARD, managing director.
MRROBERT BEVERIDGE, M.Inst.T., a director of the Scottish Omnibuses Group and general manager of Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd,, is to retire shortly. Ile started his transport career in 1901 in his native Aberdeen, when he served as an apprentice in the locomotive shops of the former Great North of Scotland Railway. He began his long association with the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., in 1914. He is this year's president of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association. In 1944 he was appointed a member of the committee set up by the Scottish Council on Industry to investigate facilities for tourists in Scotland, from which emerged the Scottish Tourist Board. He was also appointed a member, in 1949, of the Glasgow and District Transport 'Committee, formed to investigate the transport requirements of Glasgow and district, which produced the Inglis Report. Scottish Omnibuses are seeking a successor to Mr. Beveridge at a starting salary of about £2,500 a year.
A24 MR. GUY EDWARDS has been appointed district manager of the Midland automotive division • of the Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd.
Ma. D. H. CAMERON has been appointed a director of David MacBrayne, Ltd., in succession to MR, T. F. CAMERON, who has retired.
107 M.P.H. BY 5-TONNER
A5-TON lorry attained 107 m.p.h. on a U.S. Air Force airfield at Bentwaters, near Ipswich, last week. It was driven into a nylon barrier to test
its efficiency in arresting landing aircraft. The speed was gained by using six rocket devices, as employed for supersonic aircraft.
OXFORD CHANGES ROAD PLANS
PROPOSALS to build relief roads through Christ Church Meadow and the university parks have been dropped by Oxford City Council. Plans for alternative routes were adopted on Monday, and they will come before next Monday's council meeting with a view to their being sent to the Minister of Housing and Local Government as an amendment to the Oxford development plan.