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of Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., replacing MR. R. P. BEDDOW.
MR. J. S. WILLS has resigned from chairmanship of Ribble Motor Services. Ltd., and is succeeded by MR. R. P. BEDDOW, MR, J. F. E. PYE, J.P,, has been re-elected chairman of the Vehicles Committee of the National Road Transport Federation, with MR. J. JANES as vice-chairman
MR. W. T. JAMES becomes director and chairman of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., and M. T. R. WILLIAMS managing director. Ma. R. W. BiRcR has resigned from the board.
MR. J. H. MuTTRIcK has been appointed to represent E. Boydell and Co., Ltd., in the north east of England. His predecessor, MR. J. L. LOE, died recently, a few weeks before he was due to retire.
MR. GILBERT FRANCIS has been appointed to succeed MR. A. E. TAYLOR as representatives of Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd., in the East Midlands. Mr. Taylor will retire on December 31 after 44 years' service.
MR, C F. RUSSELL has been elected chairman and managing director of Specialloid, Ltd., following the retirement ot MR. H. N. Bans, MR. L. H. MAIDMAN, MR. H. R. PETERS, and MR, R. A. CurintERT have joined the board, the offices held by them being secretary, general sales manager, and general works manar,r, respectively.
MR. E. A. LANGFIAM has relinquished his appointment of sales manager of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., to become general manager of the company in India. MR, A. W. LANomAm, manager of the sales planning department, will, for the present, act as sales manager, in addition to carrying his responsibilities in the sales planning department.
Mk. H. LANDSTAD. one of the original directors of Morris Motors, Ltd., has retired at the age of 67. 1-le was at one time works manager and later became general manager of the Morris Cars branch, As chief designer at White and Poppe, Ltd., Mr. Landstad, in collaboration with Mr. Poppe and Mr. William Morris (now Lord Nuffield), designed the first Morris 10 h.p. engine.
MR. G, L. SAGE, who has been with the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., for 31 years, has been. appointed -chief of the claims department in succession to MR. 0. R. TOPHAM, who has retired after 46 years' service. Starting with the company in 1901, Mr. Topham dealt first with general traffic correspondence. Recently he received from the hands of the general manager, MAJOR F. J. CHAPPLE, a presentation subscribed for by his colleagues.
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MR. L. G. HICKS, manager of Dunlop's Europe and Near East division, has flown to Portugal for discussions with the company's -resident representative and distributors there. He will then pay a short vis'A to Spain, MR, E S. BAILEY and MR. G. C. DOWNING, of Specialloid Ltd., and the Aero Piston Ring Co., Ltd., respectively, have joined the board of Specialloid (Canada), Ltd., the first as vice-president and the latter as director and general manager.
SIR Cyan. HLIRCOMB. G.C.B., K.B.E., chairman of the British Transport Commission, was awarded the honour of Grand Officer of the Order of OrangeNassau by H.E. the Netherlands Ambassador, last Friday, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. During the war Sir Cyril, as director
general of the Ministry of War 'Transport, acted in close co-operation with the shipping authorities of the Netherlands Government and was chairman of the Anglo-Netherlands Shipping Committee. MR. R. F. HANKS NEW NLTFFIELD VICE-CHAIRMAN
FOR. R. E. HANKS has been IV! appointed vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organisation, in succession to Sir Miles Thomas. Mr. Hanks was previously managing director of Nuffield Exports, Ltd., and accompanied Lord Nuffield on his latest tour of the Dominions, from which he returned last June.
Mr. Hanks was a premium apprentice at the G.W.R. locomotive works, Swindon, served with the R.A.S.C., and joined the Morris service department at the end of 1922. He became assistant service manager in 1929, chief inspector at the cars branch in 1936, and production manager two years later.
He was appointed manager of the R.A.F. Civilian Repair Organisation in 1940, and from 1941 to 1945 was general manager of Nuffield Mechanisalions, Ltd., and joined Nuffield Exports, Ltd., in 1945.
POLICE PATROLS TO WARN OF SNOWDRIFTS
TO prevent roads between Yorkshire and Lancashire from being encumbered by snowed-up vehicles, the police are being asked to provide bad-weather patrols to warn drivers to pull into recognized parking places, rather than to try to get through under conditions which give them little or no chance of doing so.
During very snowy weather it has been usual to put up large notices warning drivers not to proceed on these Pennine roads, but the well-understood desire of lorry drivers to "deliver the goods" has, in many cases, caused these notices to be ignored. Consequently, vehicles . have become snowbound on traffic routes which the authorities were endeavouring to clear.
All drivers of. goods and passenger vehicles are urged to notify the police when they have abandoned their vehicles because of snowdrifts.
OBITUARY
THE death occurred on November 28 of MR. J. MOFFAT, A.M.I.Mech.E., who was for 15 years chief engineer of Dundee Transport Department. He was 61 years of age and had been in failing health.