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MR. R. J. PINDER has been appointed a director of the Cleveland Petroleum Co., Ltd.
MR, G. A. PLUMMER has been appointed to the board of John Thompson, Ltd.
MR. A. C. STEWART has been appointed assistant sales manager of Chloride Batteries, Ltd. He joined the company in 1921.
MR. E. J. CARTER, Ministry Of Transport driving and traffic examiner for Bodmin, is to take up an appointment with the transport branch of the Kuwait Oil Co.
MAJOR CYRIL DENNIS is to retire from his executive posts with _W. B. Dick and Co., Ltd., at the end of the year. He will continue as an ordinary director of the company.
MR. R. D. BoveE, a managing director of Rornac Industries, has been appointed chairman in succession to A.V.M. HUGH H. M. FRASER, who has resigned from the board.
MR. F. J. COLLINS has been appointed assistant traffic manager of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd. He has been assistant divisional superintendent, eastern division, of the Birmingham and Midland Omnibus Co.,
• Ltd., since 1948.
MR. J. E. EAGLAND, traffic manager of Hansons Buses, Ltd., since 1949, has been appointed assistant motor transport officer to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Aldermaston, near Reading. He will take up his new post on Tuesday.
MR. F. H. SPRATLING, staff administration officer of the London Transport Executive, has been appointed chief establishment officer. MR. E. R. DRAKE, staff officer, has become establishment officer. MR. R. J. HITCHCOCK is the new labour relations officer.
MR. R. M. WATERHOUSE has been appointed to the head office sales staff of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., and is succeeded as replacement sales representative for north Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and Ireland by MR. D. How.
MR. J. Fr. LORD, executive director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has left London by air on a visit to the company's factories and plantations in India, Malaya and Japan. He will return at the end of the month. MR. FRANK H. SMITH, director and general sales manager of Dunlop Special Products, Ltd., is visiting the United States and Canada.
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MR. R. J. ARMSTRONG has been appointed Scottish area manager of A.C.V. Sales, Ltd.
MR. S. G. WARD has become commercial-vehicle specialist representative of the Newcastle depot of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. S. C. VINCE, chief engineer of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of the B.E.T. Federation, Ltd.
MR. E. FAULKNER and MR. C. W. BAKER have been appointed senior sales supervisors of the Nuffield Organization. MR. D. V. W. FRANCIS succeeds Mr. Baker as sales executive of the fleet user division.
MR. R. A. WIGGANS has been appointed assistant general works engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd. He was previously works engineer at the company's Ministry of Supply factory, a post new filled by MR. F. Coacett.
MR. WHITNEY W. STRAIGHT, deputy chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation, will become a director of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., on November 1, and on January 1 will succeed MR, A. G. ELLIOTT as executive vice-chairman. Mr. Elliott is retiring after 43 years' service, with the company.
MR. G. F. SINCLAIR, member of the board of management of British Road Services, and MR. A. WATSON, assistant general manager, Chamber of Shipping, have been elected to fill the vacancies on the council of the Institute of Transport which arose through the appointment as vice-presidents of M.GEN. G. N. RUSSELL, general manager of B.R.S., and MR. R. G. GROUT.
MR. 0. H. Rex, formerly dealer sales manager of the Regent Oil Co., Ltd., has become general sales manager. MR. R. A. MUNRO has been appointed assistant sales manager, and MR. a L MACNAGHTEN manager of the sales promotion department. MR. H. DE G. WARTER, manager, special sales, has been elected a freeman and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carmen.
MR. T. H. SMITH is the new representative of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., in parts of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset, formerly covered by MR. H. K. KNIGHT, recently
appointed assistant Birmingham
regional tyre; manager. In place of MR. K. G. LOWERY, now special representative, giant tyres, at the company's head office in Edinburgh, MR. G. M. KING Will be responsible for Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and part of Yorkshire.