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MR. STANLEY S. DAWES has been elected president of the Institute of the Motor Industry for a tenth term.
MR. M. A. DOWNS, mechanical superintendent of Deptford Borough Council, has retired after 41 years service.
MR. H. A. DENNE and Mr. F. E. W. HAMMOND have been appointed executive directors of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd.
MR. T. A. READ has been appointed head of the legal department of F. Perkins, Ltd. He was previously with Pilkington Bros.. Ltd.
MR. J. V. FRANKLIN, managing director of Biadk and Decker, Ltd., has returned from a tour of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia.
MR. R. W. BIRCH has been appointed a director of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., in succession to MR. J. W. WOMAR, who has retired.
MR. W. H. SMITH, assistant engineer (rolling stock) of the engineering department at the headquarters of British Road Services, has been appointed north-western divisional engineer.
MR. A. K. JORDAN, assistant general sales manager of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., has left to return to the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd., as general sales manager. Mn. J. H. MAyES is the new assistant general
• sales manager of Northern Aluminium.
MR. A. F. R. CARLING has been elected to the board of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and appointed managing director, also becoming chairman of the company's subsidiaries—Auty's Tours, Ltd., Blackpool Omnibus Stations, Ltd., Howard Coaches, Ltd., and W. C. Standerwick, Ltd.—in succession to MR. J. W. WOMAR, who has retired. And MR. E. L. TAYLOR has been elected a director of Blackpool Omnibus Stations, Ltd., and W. C. Standerwick. Ltd MR. B. H. WILLIAMS has resigned from the board of Guy Motors, Ltd.
MR. ALAN E. BARTON, Manchester's director of cleansing, has succeeded MR. W. H. ANDREWS, who is retiring, as general manager of Birmingham Salvage Department.
Ma. C. S. Bull has become chairman and MR. I. BEAUREPAIRE vice-chairman of the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Co. Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, Australia. These offices were held by the late SIR FRANK BEAUREPAIRE, founder of the concern, which now has an annual output of lm. tyres.
MORE BIRMINGHAM INCREASES?
A WARNING that he could not 1-1. guarantee that a proposed fare application seeking extra revenue of more than £300,000 a year would be the fast, was given to Birmingham City Council. last week, by Aid. H. Walton, chairman of the transport committee. The council rejected a proposal that an independent inquiry be made into the workings of the transport department.
During the debate on the committee's report—which showed a surplus of £47,000 for the year—it was revealed that 36 of the 51 bus services were unremunerat ive.
COMPENSATION RULES PASSED
THE British Transport Commission Compensation (A mendmen t) Regulations, 1954, were approved by the House of Commons last week.
Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, said they had been 'agreed with the seven trade unions concerned and were fully retrospective. They covered not only those who were still in the Commission's employment or that of B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd., but those who might have left their employment but were in it at the appropriate time. Full protection was given to those entitled to it.