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11th November 1955, Page 98
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MR. A. G. EVERSHED has been appointed commercial officer of the London Transport Executive.

MR. W. JEFFERS has taken the place of MR. A. E. W. BROWN on the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for Wales and Monmouthshire. Mr. Jeffers is the chief manager of South Wales

• docks.

MR. NoE.L. McDoNALD, traffic superintendent of Reading Transport Department, has become deputy general 'manager of Bolton Transport Department. He was previously with the Hull and Burton-on-Trent undertakings.

• LT.-COL. S. J. M. AuLD, president of the Institute of Petroleum, will be the principal guest at the annual dinnerdance of the Central London Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association on November 21 at the Trocadero Restaurant, London, W.I.

MR. MASAHICHI MOTOI, vice-president of the Japanese Federation of Trade Unions, MR. USH1TAR0 OKAMOTO, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan • Workers' Union, and MR. GENJIRO

• Summto, chairman of the Osaka Federation of Metal Workers' Union, visited F. Perkins, Ltd., last week.

• MR. A. F. KELLEY, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., is the chairman of a new committee set up by the Institution of Production Engineers to investigate the implications of automation. Other members include SIR LEONARD LORD, head of the British Motor Corporation and president of the Institution, and MR. E. W. flroicom, of 'Humber, Ltd.

MR. J. GLYN JONES has joined the• technical sales staff of the Sheepbridge 'Group and will represent Sheepbridge 'Alloy Castings, Ltd., and Sintered Products, Ltd., in the north-west of England. MR. V. S. JACKSON has taken over the southern area as technical sales representative. MR. J. H. DAWSON has been appointed technical sales engineer of Twiflex Couplings, Ltd., and will cover an area extending over 'Southern England.

MR. F. G. ROBBINS, director of export sales and special contracts of the Avon • India Rubber Co., Ltd., is to concentrate wholly on special contracts. New staff appointments 'have been made in , consequence. MR. W. F. THOMSON has become export sales manager (tyres), and MR. D. C. ROYLE home sales manager (tyres). MR. J. F. SWANBOROUGH has been appointed field manager (south) and MR. A. H. R. Dix field manager (north) of the originalequipment division. MR. A. A. E. STEVENS is now sales executive of the replacement division, and MR. G. W RAMSAY Midland regional commercialvehicle specialist.

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LORD LUKE OF PAVENHAM has been elected first president of the National Association of Warehousekeepers. He is a director Of a number of companies.

MR. J. B. ARCHER, director of P. W. Archer and Son, Ltd., Northallerton, engineers and hauliers, has been elected chairman of Northallerton Chamber of Trade.

MR. L. S. WOODALL has been appointed tyre salesman of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., covering the counties of Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint and Merioneth.

MR. WALTER BLADES, export sales manager of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., left by air last week for an extensive tour of the Middle East. He expects to be back early in the New Year.

MR. R. PARNELL has joined the Dove group of companies as personal assistant to MR. L. F. DOVE, F.I.M.I., chairman and managing director. Mr. Famell was until recently the transport manager for the Kermanshah Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of the Anglo-Iranian concern.

MR. D. W. CHERRY has been appointed an assistant engineer of the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd. Son of MR. G. A. CHERRY, general manager of Birkenhead Transport Department, he joined the company nearly three years ago after serving an apprenticeship with Leyland Motors, Ltd, MR. FRANK WELLS and his brother, MR. HARRY WELLS, have together completed 92 years' service with the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd. Mr. Frank Wells joined the concern in 1908 and is now on the staff of the northern automotive division. His brother started in 1910 and is marketing assistant in the southern automotive divisional office.