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MR. H. W. DOWNIE has been appointed traffic superintendent to Warrington Corporation.
MR. A. A. JACKSON, transport manager to Bolton Corporation, has been appointed chairman of the northwestern section of the Institute of Transport.
MR. WILFRID ANDREWS has been appointed chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, following the retirement of Lieut.-Colonel J. Sealy Clarke, who had been chairman for the past 15 years.
MR. J. M. WILTSHIRE, the wellknown international football referee, has joined the sales staff of Camkin Motors, Ltd., of Sherbome, Dorset, which is a distributor for the products of Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd.
LIEUT.-COLONEL BRIAN G. ROBBINS has been released from his duties in R.E.M.E., and has again taken up his position as secretary of the I.A.E. His war service was devoted to technical training. He has been covering units in the Western Command and Northern Ireland, with special reference to the trade testing of Army tradesmen of all, arms of the Service.
-- LIEUT.-COLONEL DONALD BOXALL,
0.B.E., has taken up his appointment as sales manager for the ndtth-eastern area with Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., and is operating from the company's Leeds depot. He is well known in the Yorkshire and north-eastern areas, and his associationwith the company dates back to 1918. He has a distinguished war record, first with the R.A.O.C. and later with R.E.M.E., being awarded the -0B-.E., and three times mentioned in dispatches. MR. H. W. MAYNE is taking over ihe position of sales manager for the company in the eastern area, with headquarters at Coventry; he has keen with the company since 1929. MR. S. J. LEarrost becomes sales manager of the Seottish area. • For the past 11 years he has been in charge of the company's Edinburgh depot and has been responsible for passenger-vehicle sales in Scotland.
MR. A. P. H. PEHRSON has been appOinted export sales manager of Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., and its associated companies, Simmonds Products and Neville's (Liverpool), Ltd. The export department of the group is now situated at the company's West End headquarters and showrooms, 75-81, Regent Street, London, W.1.
MR. E. H. HURLSTON, chairman of the Institution of the Rubber Industry in Manchester, has been appointed technical superintendent of the new Dunlop factory at Speke, Liverpool. He has been 27 years with the company, first at Fort Dunlop on tyre compounding, and for the past 20 years on general rubber goods at Cambridge Street, Manchester, where he was latterly quality superintendent.
Ma. F. ROWARTII, F.R.AE.S., ha, we are advised by AutomotiveProducts Co., Ltd., been appointed general sales manager to the associated companies, which include the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., Borg and Beck Co., Ltd., etc. He is particularly well known in the aircraft industry, and during the war was in charge of one of the technical sections of the Ministry of Aircraft Production. MR. 0. SELWYN SMITH has been re-elected chairman of' the' London and Home Counties Centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund.
WING COMMANDER C. H. B. PRICE has just resumed his duties as publicity manager of Tecalemit, Ltd., After an absence from the company of 61 years. During his military career he has, in turn, been assistant adjutant of an • R.A.F. training wing, operations officer in the defence of London; industrialbomb target specialist at the Air Ministry, target intelligence officer, Army Co-operation Command, member of the air-planning staff for the invasion of Europe, chief tactical liaison officer to Psychological Warfare Division of S.H.A.E.F., and, finally, officer commanding the Berlin Information Control Unit.
MR. J. W. MILLS,' 0,B.E., has returned to the industry after completing seven years with the Air Ministry and M.A.P. He has now become director and general manager (Engineering) of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. (Ironfouinders), Ltd.; Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. (Pneumatic Tools), Ltd., and Jarrow Metal Industries, Ltd. He is also on boards of various other companies. In August. 1938, he left the Austin concern for'the Air Ministry to assist in planning the extensive expansion of the aircraft industry. When war came he was made responsible for the production of all airborne armament, being appointed Director, which post he held for lour years. Then he became Executive Officer to the Production Efficiency Board and a member of many important committees. He also took-administrative control of C.5 branch of the Directorate of Contracts, M.A.P.