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MR. M. CLARK-HALL has been appointed assistant secretary to the British Road Federation. The secretary is, of course, Mr. J. S. Neave.
MR, A. RICHARDSON, rolling-stock engineer of the Newcastle-on-Tyne transport and electricity undertaking, is to retire in October after 40 .years' service.
MR. H. G. Spurn, assistant export sales manager, general rubber goods division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has been appointed export sales managlr of the company, with headquarters at Cambridge Street, Manchester.
MR. W. j. COURTNEY ha-ss been appointed to the board of directors of the Marsham Tyre Co., Ltd. He is well known in Yorkshire and Lancashire, where, during the past seven of his 18 years' service, he has represented the company as divisional manager.
MR. CHARLES MILNE, vehicle-body superintendent of the transport department of Edinburgh corporation, was presented, upon his retirement, with gifts by his colleagues at a gathering of city transport officials, last week. He was appointed superintendent in 1930 and has been responsible kir many improvements in design over the period he has held office.
MR. FRANK LOCKWOOD, of Lockwood Ind Clarkson, Ltd., the Leeds soachbuilding and motor engineering concern, who for some six years has been honorary secretary of the Leeds Centre of the Institute of the Motor Trade, has been elected chairman of the Centre. MR. FRED HOWARTH, of the Paragon (Hull) Motor Co., Ltd., Leeds, has . been elected vice-chairman.
MR. R. H. iltissr, of John Hunt and Sons (Leeds), Ltd., has been re-elected' chairman of the Yorkshire Section of the Institute of Transport, for a second year in that office. The vice-chairmen are MR. E. 13. HlUTCHINSON (Leeds Area Road Haulage Officer, M.O.W.T.), MAJOR F. S. EASTIVOOD (Transport Commissioner, North-eastern Region), -and M. W. VANE MORLAND (general manager and chief engineer, Leeds Passenger Transport Department).
MR. ARTHUR C. RICHARDS, chairman and managing director of the Aero Piston Ring Co., Ltd., Leeds, has been re-elected chairman of the Yorkshire Region of the Institute of the Motor Trade for the third successive year. MR. P. R. BAUGH, of the Lodestar Motor Co., a concern of commercialvehicle specialists specialists of Sheffield, has been elected vice-chairman and re-elected honorary treasurer.
COLONEL J. MONROE JOHNSON, a member of the U.S.A. Interstate Commerce Commission, was recently appointed director, of the Office of Defense Transportation. He takes the place of Mr. Joseph B, Eastman, who died last March. Thus the highest transport position of the American nation is filled by a veteran of the first world war, who is widely known 'for his engineering ability and broad knowledge of transport matters.
ALDERMAN RICHARD MAYNE, chairman of the transport and electricity committee of Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council for 20 years, has resigned. He is 84 years. oldond has been a member of the city council for 40 years. He will retain his membership of :the committee. Under his chairmanship, the committee, a few years ago, embarked on a plan for converting the city's tram routes to operation by trolleybuses and buses. Many routes have already been converted and further change-overs are contemplated so soon as circumstances permit.
MR. B. G. TURNER, _M.Inst.T.,' who has been elected president of the London and Home Counties Haulage Contractors' Association, has been a member of the Council of that body since 1933. He is also a Council member of the National Road Transport Employers' Federation, and a member of the S.J.C. (and its executive and other sub-committees). A list of his membership of other 'bodies is too long to include here, but :in his business capacity it should be mentioned that
he is managing director of Thomas Allen, Ltd„ and of other haulage and engineering concerns. His brother, the late, Mr. P. R. Turner, was president of the Association from 1926 until his death in 1932.
MR. DUDLEY NOHLE relinquished his appointment with Rootes Securities, Ltd., a little while ago, and has now launched into a personal business in connection with technical journalism, public relations and editorial services. He tells us that he has already established contact with important organizations closely identified with the motor and allied industries, in which he has had 25 years' experience. His address is:-143, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4.
MR. A. R. SADLER has been elected to the hoard of directors of Pirelli, Ltd., and appointed a managing director of "the company. MR. 3. E. PERUvAL, chairman of the board, is also appointed a managing director. Mr. Sadler has been associated with the tyre industry since 1915. He is a member of the Council of the S.M.M.T., on which he has served for many years, and is on the Council of the Federation of British Rubber and Allied Manufacturers' Associations. He joined the Pirelli concern as general sales manager in January, 1929, after having served for many years with the Gbodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.
MR. A. A. SMITH, who has been with Yokes, Ltd., for several years as its chief designer, has been appointed deputy general manager of the company. Assistant chief designers have been appointed in the persons of MR. A. FREEDMAN, A.M.I.MEcit.E., and MR. R. CHAFFEY; the former will take care of production design and the latter of development design. MR. A. W. CULVER, who vacates the position of chief inspector, which is being filled by MR. A. E. G. SLY, returns to his former post of sales manager. The rapid growth of the company's business, ,the diversity of its filtration products and the dispersal of its factories have placed such burdens upon the managing director, MR. C. G. VOKES, A.M.LMECH.E (, A .F.R .At.S ,
M.I.A.E., that these changes in , organization have been rendered necessary.