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MR. WILLIAM WALLACE has been appointed managing director of Dodge Brothers (Britain). Ltd., and we extend to him our warmest congratulations.
MAJOR C. M. CARINGTON has been appointed to the board of S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd. He was formerly general manager of K.L.G. Sparking Plugs, Ltd.
MR. W. IL PHILLIPS has been appointed parts manager of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., in succession to M. C. H. FISHER who, as recently announced, has been appointed controller of parts and service.
MR. J. PauDEN, a member, of A. G. Pruden and Co., Ltd., which is the agent in Buenos Aires for Leyland Motors, Ltd., is at present in England on a business visit to the maker's head office at Leyland.
M. J. H. BRUNER, 0.B.E., has been appointed chief public relations and publicity officer of London Transport. He took over this post on January 7, prior to which he was director of the news division of the Ministry of Information.
Ni R. J. N. FORSTER, who, on the inauguration of tyre control, was appointed regional tyre officer, Reading area, has been released by the Ministry of Supply and resumed his duties as London branch manager for Pirelli, Ltd.
MR. WILLIAM Ftsn, F.C.I.S., joint managing director arid deputy chairman of Dennis Bros., Ltd., has neen. appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County of Surrey. Born near Southport, Lancashire, he became assoetatcd with the company in 1920, when he was appointed secretary. He has been a member of the board since 1928.
MR, J. P. ANDERSON, awarded the C.B.E. in the New Year Honours, was sales director, Dunlop Rubber Company (India), Ltd., before becoming Controller of Rubber, DirectorateGeneral of Supply, Government of India. He is now on leave in England prior to taking up a new appointment.
MR, A. F. PALMER PHILLIPS has relinquished the position of director of sales of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., to take up other and special duties of a broader nature, although many of these duties will have a sales and export connection. He will continue as a director of the company and, In his new appointment, will, from time to time, be making visits to export markets. He has been 'director of sales since 1929. MR. R; A. Davis, sales manager, has been appointed director of sales in succession to Mr. Palmer Phillips. Throughout the war he has been with the Ministry of Supply; in the early stages as Deputy Directed; of Mechanization in the wheeled vehicle branch and, latterly, as Deputy Director General of R.E. equipment. MR. A. L. NicxrasoN has become chairman of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., following the retirement from that position of MR. A. L. McCou.., MR. F. J. POOLE has become assistant treasurer of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., in succession to M. J. S. WATK INS, A.C.I.S., who retired at the end of the year, whilst MR, W. J.
MASON has become electrical engineer, in succession to MR. A. J. BURFITI, 1,vho also retired at the same time.
MR. H. W. HEYMAN, B.Sc., until lately chief engineer of the batteryelectric vehicle department of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., has joined Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., of Newcastle-on-Tync, maker of the N.C.B. battery-electric vehicle. He has an extensive electrical-engineering background and a particularly close association with electrical-vehicle manufacture. He originally served his apprenticeship with the A.E.G. in Berlin and afterwards went to Electricars, Ltd., at Birmingham. Later' he joined Metropolitan-Vickers and transferred to the Brush concern. MR. W. J. SEYMOUR has been appointed public relations manager of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.
MR. H. DICK has been appointed transport supervisor of the Scottish C.W.S., Ltd., Glasgow.
M. G. W. BAKER, Sales manager of the AC-Sphinx Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., has left for the U.S.A. on a business trip. He hopes to be back by April.
M. JOHN LEWIS has returned to his post of Cardiff district manager for the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. He joined the company in 1926 and during the war has been west regional tyre officer.
MR. A. H. BURMAN will, for reasons of health, be relinquishing on March 1 his duties as traffic manager of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., but is appointed traffic -adviser to the company.
MR. J. B. CHEVALLIER, formerly in charge of the operations of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., in Portsmouth, has joined the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., and will be appointed traffic manager as from March 1, on the retirement of MR. F. W. SELIAVOCD, to take up a position as traffic manager with Southdown Motor Services, Ltd.
MR. R. W. HAMMOND, who, during the war, was Director in Charge of Rootes• Securities, Ltd.,-Aircraft Division, and is now, executive director of the Commercial Division of Rootes Securities, Ltd., and a member Of the boards of the manufacturing companies in the Rootes Group, also of certain of its distributing companies, has been awarded the C.B.E. in the New Year Honours List.
M. G. W. LACEY, C.B.E., A.R.I.C., general sales manager responsible for the sales division of he British Aluminium Co., Ltd., has been appointed a member of the board of tha company. MR. E. A. LANGHAM, who has recently returned from India, has taken up his appointment as sales manager in the sales division. Ma. A. W. LAtaornam, who has been acting sales manager and responsible fcr th sales and sales planning departments, is now sales planning manager.
MR. ROBERT HUGHES has been appointed passenger superintendent of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board. He was formerly connected with the Great Northern Railway, being attached to the accountancy and operating departments. During that period his work kept him in close contact with the developing bus business of the company, and he was appointed chief clerk to the road, motor superintendent. On the establishment of the Board, he took up the position of indoor assistant to the late passenger superintendent. He was closely associated with the consolidation of the services taken over from private undertakings.