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• MR. WALTER POLL has been appointed stores controller at the Stockport headquarters of the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd.
MR. WILLIAM ROBERT MARSDEN.
administrative and commercial officer of Southport Transport Department, is to retire at the end of June.
MR. A. H. PENDRE, sales director of Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain); Ltd., has celebrated 30 years' service with the company.
.MR. R. A. EDh4ONDS has been appointed director in charge of the manufacturing and electrical divisions of Mann Egerton and Co., Ltd.
MR. DENNIS HAYS has assumed the duties of director, the Dunlop Rubber Co. (Scotland), Ltd. lie succeeds SrFE WILLIAM SINCLAIR, Who retired on January 31.
MR. S. G. PREECE, or Port of Spain, Trinidad, has been appointed supervising representative for South America and the Caribbean area by Simmonds Aerocelsories, Ltd.
MR. G. R. BROOK, assistant secretary of the Western and Southern National bus companies, has been appointed secretary of Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., with effect from March I.
MR. LAURENCE EVANS. has been appointed chief information officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. MR. E. Rees-PRYSE, who has been Press and information officer of RoSPA since 1947, continues as information officer and editor of Safety News.
MR. F. W. TOMLINSON, managing director of Pyrotenax, Ltd., MR. J. M. WILLEY. director and general manager of Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., and MR. P. S. Baywr, of Murex. Ltd., have been appointed to the board of Murex, Ltd. Mr. Tomlinson has also been appointed to the board of Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.
MR. F. P. 1BARRIBAL, director of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd., in charge of retail sales, is to leave for New York on March 9. For the next two years he will hold an appointment with Mobil International Oil Co., but will remain on the board of the British Mobil concern. MR.
• J. F. MARTIN is coming from New York to join the London company, of which he will be a director.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY INCREASE LAST year 9,171 motor vehicles were stolen in London alone—an increase of more than 34 per cent. on 1958 and of 134 per cent. on 1957. There was a comparable increase in the number of thefts from vehicles parked in London streets—a total of 20,678.
Announcing these figures, New Scotland Yard urge drivers to lock their vehicles securely, even if they leave them for only a few minutes. and to remove any articles of value from view.