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SIR JOHN S. BoomsNAN, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., has been appointed a director of Dualtoys, Ltd.
• MR. S. C. JOSEPH, managing director of Clifford Motor Components, Ltd., has been appointed deputy chairman.
MR. S. G. Wait has beocma tyre representative of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., for Durham County and Tees-side.
MR. KENNETH HoRNE, sales director of Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., has been made a Liveryman of the Coachmakers' Company.
MR. STEPHEN G. JoNES, previously assistant solicitor (general), has been appointed solicitor to the London Transport Executive.
MR. S. H. FisliER has been appointed a director of the Trent Motor Traction. Co., Lid. He succeeds M. T. W. ROYAL, who has resigned.
LORD McGowara, K.B.E., D.C.L., LL.D. chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.. is to become the first patron of the Purchasing Officers Association.
MR. G. F. SINCLAIR and MR. A. F. ANDREWS, of the London Transport Executive, are to visit Sydney, New South Wales, to survey the local road passenger transport systems.
MR H. Sam HALL, M.LMECH.E., M.I.R.T.E. (S.T.R. of The Commercial Motor") was on Tuesday recovering from an illness which has prevented his writing his usual article on transport economies.
CAPT. E. ROBERTS. traffic manager of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., received the O.B.E. in the New Year Honours. The award was made in the Military Section to Lieut.-Colonel E. Roberts, commanding the 1st Cadet Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in recognition of his work with the Battalion.
• MR. HENRY URQUHART. for many years service manager of the Lucas electrical concern and latterly a director of Lucas Sales and Service, Ltd., retired last week after over 30 years' service with the company. He is succeeded as service director by MR. JOHN LUCAS, on of the late Mr. Oliver Lucas. Mr. Urquhart was largely responsible for establishing the present world-wide chain of Lucas service stations.
MR. A. Ca G. MARSHALL, M.A., F.I.M.1., chairman and managing director of a group of five companies known as the Marshall Organization, has been awarded the O.B.E. The group's interests cover bodybuilding (by Marshall Motor Bodies, Ltd.), the maintenance and running of a large central workshop for the Ministry of Supply, and the distribution of commercial vehicles. Mr. Marshall has been actively interested in the Air Training Corps and has been chairman of the local squadron since its inception.
M. 6. A. H. Warts has been appointed a director of Red arid White United Transport, Ltd. As reported last week, the company has been invited to open negotiations with the British Transport Commission.
M. R. G. CAvE has been appointed export sales manager in control of the export department of Smiths Motor Accessories, Ltd. He ha s bee nit responsible for the export sales of an associated company, Radiomobile, Ltd.. and will continue with this duly.
MR. RUSSELL BAILEY has been appointed managing director of Charles Roberts and Co., Ltd., in Succession to MR, DUNCAN BAILEY. who remains as chairman.
MR. G. K. Iwyo.Ross has been appointed district manager in the Scottish division of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd. M. G. M. BuRNErr has become special representative, tractor, land and giant tyres, for an area embracing nine northern counties in Scotland.
• MR. W. J. M. LAWFORD, who has recently been appointed acting secretary of the National Road Transport Federation, in succession to MR. F. D. FITZGERALD, F.C.1.S., worked for two years under MR. G. W. QUICK SMITH, LL.B., M.Inst.T., secretary to the Federation before his appointment as 'legal adviser and secretary to the Road Transport Executive. For the past 15 months. Mr. Lawford has been in charge of the secretariat of the Federation, which also includes the administration of the Road Transport Catering and Accommodation Joint Committee; the accountancy departments of the Wholesale Meat and Provision Transport Association, Ltd., and the London Cartage and Haulage Contractors' Provident Institution, all of which he will still supervise. Mr. Lawford also undertook the secretarial duties of the employers' panel of the Road Haulage Central Wages Board during the latter part of 1948, while the secretary (Mr. R. Cropper) was in America.
M. WALTER GREEN has been awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) for his work in helping to train new personnel and in installing new equipment at the Speke factory of ihe Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
At D. CHARLES HOLDSWORTII, Mayor of Halifax and chairman of the Road Haulage Association's West Riding (Leeds) Area, who recently underwent an operation, has been discharged from the Royal Halifax Infirmary for convalescence at his home.
MR. H. N. laYE, who recently retired after 51 years' service with the London Transport Executive and its predecessors, received a presentation on Monday • night from MR. L. C. HAWKINS, a member of the Executive.
MR. W. W. FOSTER, general works manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., at Fort Dunlop, has sailed for America to visit the Dunlop factories' at Buffalo, U.S.A., and Toronto, and the rubber plants at Detroit, Jackson and Akron. He is accompanied by MR. S. Salmi, of the engineering section at Fort Dunlop.
MR. IC A. BECKET1, assistant managing director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., is to make an extensive tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. He will return at the end of March. MR. J. E. BECKETT., founder and chairman of the company, visited
the United States last year. Beckett, Layeock and Watkinson, Ltd., is intensifying its export programme by renewing personal contacts with customers overseas.
MR. JAMES MORE, M.I.R.T.E., automobile engineer, Glasgow Transport Department, has been appointed divisional engineer (freight) in the Scottish Division, Road Transport Executive. M. P. F. JONES, manager, equipment division, Specialloid, Ltd., has been appointed to a similar position in the North Western Division, R.T.E., and M. F. H. KIDD, chief engineer, Western Welsh Omnibus Co„ Ltd., has become divisional engineer (freight) in the Western Division, R.T.E.