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Men in .. the News Mr. J. B. Wilde has been elected
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chairman of the bulk liquids group of the Road Haulage Association for 1964-65, together with Mr. H. Wood and Mr. W. M. McMillan as vice-chairmen. The meat and transport group re-elected Mr. E. .1. Booth as chairman arid Mr. A. Neely as vice-chairman.
Mr. F. V. Gray has been appointed managing director of C.V. (Sales and Repairs) Ltd., of Basildon, Essex, and Cardiff. Mr. Gray was formerly central regional manager for A.E.C. (Sales) Ltd.
Mr. M. W. Adlington, Mr. I. M. Hyde and Mr. P. B. Perry have been appointed sales representatives for the Triplex Safety Glass Co. LW. Mr. Adlington and Mr. Hyde will be based at King's Norton, Birmingham, and Mr. Perry at Willesden, London.
Mr. F. R. Robertson, sales representative of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd. since 1954, and recently special fleet sales representative in Yorkshire, has been appointed district manager in Glasgow.
Officers for the West Midland division of the Traders Road Transport Association for 1964 have been elected as follows: Mr. E. A. Betteley (Tarmac Group), chairman; Mr. J. A. Edmonds (Henry Hope and Sons Ltd.), deputy chairman; Mr. E. Carter (Rubery Owen and Co. Ltd.), Mr. J. Delicate (Courtaulds Ltd.), vice-chairmen.
Mr. D. N.:. Flower, at present depot superintendent, Tiverton, with The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co. Ltd., has been appointed manager of -Neath and Cardiff Luxury. Coaches Ltd. in succession to Mr. J. J. Newbury, who Will be retiring on March 31. Mr. Flower, who completed his course of training with the Southdown company under the B.E.T. Training Scheme in 1959, joined Devon General on December 31, 1959. He was appointed to his present position on March 1. 1961.
Mr. N. Crawford, at present assistant secretary of East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd., has been appointed .secretary/ accountant of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd., in succession to the late Mr. J. H. Wilkinson. Mr. Crawford joined East Kent as assistant secretary in September, 1959.
Mr. F. T. Auld, formerly commercial sales manager for six years with L. F. Dove (C.V.) Ltd., has taken up a similar position with Jackson's Garage (Guildford) Ltd. Mr. Auld has been a member of the Surrey and South Middlesex area committee of the T.R.T.A. and will remain in this capacity.
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Mr. Frederick St. L. McCarthy, director of public cleansing, St. Marylebone, will bring with him a long family tradition of local government Service when he is installed as president for 1964-65 at the 66th annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing at Margate on June 9. Mr. McCarthy entered local government service in 1928 after servIng with the Royal Ordnance, Woolwich Arsenal, and with the commercial department of the Swedish Consulate in London. His grandfather had been cleansing superintendent in St. Marylebone, and his father, a highways contractor to many municipalities, was in his later years roads superintendent to that authority.
Mr. Don Bradman has been appointed contracts sales manager in London for the York Trailer Co. Ltd. In the Midlands, Mr. George Judson has joined York as regional representative, East Midlands. He comes to York from the tyre• industry.
Mr. S. Everall, who has been associated for over 10 years with Kirkby and Sons (Sales) Ltd., has now established his own coach sales business. Known as S. Everall Ltd., Hermitage Lane, Mansfield, Notts, the company will deal in new and used passenger vehicles.
Mr. Jack Bushnell, managing director of Crypton Equipment (WI. Group) is now in the U.S.A. holding discussions with American associates. He has visited the International Automotive Service Industries show in San Francisco and, before returning to England, will visit Crypton's agents in Jamaica and the Bahamas. Mr. W. Kavanagh, of the Crypton export department, after attending the Geneva Motor Show is to. make a six-week tour of Crypton agents in Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
Retiring members of the Chilton area committee of the Traders Road Transport Association have been re-elected, with the exception of Mr. A. H. Sumner, of Kodak Ltd., who in view of his pending retirement, was replaced by Mr. T. Ascot, of ,the same company. Mr. G. E. Collins, of La Porte Chemicals Ltd., Mr. H. W. Wilcock, of Polycell Products Ltd., and Mr. F. D. Palmer, of Park Bottling Co. Ltd., were also elected. Mr. A. R. C. Roskilly, of Hoover Ltd., was re-elected chairman and Mr. Harry Smith, Mr. W. Conker, of G. M. Gerrards (Fruiterers) Ltd.. Mr. Scanes of George Kent Ltd., and Mr. A. L. Lambert, of Lincoln Electric Co. Ltd., were elected vice-chairmen.
Mr. C. R. Sanuns has been appointed home sales manager of Metalastik Ltd., Leicester; previously he was sales manager of the South-West area.
Mr. F. Baker (T. Baker and Sons Ltd., Dudley) has been appointed chairman of the West Midland Maintenance Advisory Committee for Goods Vehicles; Mr. Baker represents the Road Haulage Association. Mr. W. R. Rogers, British Road Services, has been appointed vicechairman.
Mr. Alec J. Kelso% of Littlewoods Mail Order Stores, Liverpool, has been appointed acting traffic manager in succession to Mr. A. L. Bagley. At the early age of 23 he was London traffic manager and subsequently became transport and packing manager for Macleans Ltd., manufacturing chemists, and associated companies. After the war he took a job with the Ministry of Works as transport officer for the whole of Scotland and the offshore Isles. In 1951 he became assistant traffic manager with Littlewoods.
Mr. W. Kitchen, of Small and Parkes Ltd., has become responsible for technical liaison to p.s.v. operators throughout the country. Aged 37, Mr. Kitchen has been with the company for nine years and has had extensive design and engineering experience in technical liaison work with p.s.v. chassis manufacturers. His new appointment follows the death of Mr. Chris Nielsen last October.
Obituary
WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. A. F. Palmer Phillips and Mr. F. Randall.
Mr. Palmer Phillips—" P.P." to his many associates—died at his Harpenden, Herts, home last week at the age of 83. He was a director of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. for more than 20 years until his retirement in 1949, following which he acted as a consultant to the motor industry. He held many executive offices in the industry, and was at various times president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the British Motor Trade Association and the Institute of the Motor Industry. Mr. Palmer Phillips entered the motor industry as sales manager of Republic Trucks in 1921. He joined General Motors Ltd. in 1922 and a year later he was appointed sales manager and remained in that position until 1929, when he came to Vauxhall as director of sales—a position he held until 1946. Among his numerous imaginative achievements while with Vauxhall was the foundation of the Bedford Drivers Club—the first one-make association for commercial vehicle drivers in Britain— and he was largely responsible for its rapid growth to a membership of more than 50,000 in the years immediately preceding the last war.
Mr. Randall died suddenly in a King's Lynn (Norfolk) hospital at the age of 60, after a short illness. He founded and for many years operated the first bus service between Magdalen and King's Lynn, starting the business in 1926 with one 14-seater bus.