Mr. J. F. Mosley has been appointed managing director of
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Bowser International Ltd., now a subsidiary of Rubery, Owen and Co. Ltd. The former managing director, Mr. S. G. B. Wallace, has been appointed managing director of Bowser (European) Ltd., the new company formed by Bowser Inc. of Chicago.
Mr. Norman Tinwell has been appointed managing director of Metalock (Britain) Ltd., in place of Maj. Edward Peckham, who has retired as managing director but remains chairman of the company.
Four members of the sales organization of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain) Ltd. who have each completed 35 years' service were recently presented with gold service pins. The four were Mr. G. R. Watson (advertising manager), Mr. E. M. Cramp (sales manager, manufacturers sales division), Mr. J. T. Perry (manager, export sales) and Mr. N. Bolton (sales development division).
Mr. J. C. H. Lovelock, manager, overseas sales engineering, C.A.V. Ltd., retired on January 31 after 28 years with the company; tributes were paid to him and presentations made at a dinner party recently. Mr. P. G. Bennett, deputy to Mr. Lovelock, is now appointed export sales manager.
Mr. J. J. Parkes will join the board of Birfield Ltd. as a non-executive director on March I. He is chairman and managing director of Alvis Ltd. and a member of the council and management committee of the S.M.M.T.
Brown Brothers Ltd. has now appointed three regional sales managers. These are: Mr. W. MacGregor (manager, Newcastle upon Tyne) covering all Thomson and Brown Brothers branches and the Belfast branch of Brown Brothers; Mr. N. F. Seabright (manager. Wolverhampton) covering Brown Brothers branches north of Wolverhampton; and Mr. R. H. Coxhill (manager, Birmingham) covering Brown Brothers branches in the Midlands and S.W. England.
Mr. A. Ringrose has been appointed area manager, south, of the John Bull Rubber Co. Ltd.; he was previously a representative in the Leicester area. He succeeds Mr. H. E. Bitten, former area manager in London and the south-east, who has retired after 30 years with John Bull.
Alcan Industries Ltd. announces that Mr. D. A. Pinn, the general manager of its New Zealand branch, has been elected to the company's board of directors. Mr. W. Etheridge has been appointed secretary/accountant of Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., a member of the Tilling Group of Omnibus Companies. Also in the Tilling Group, Mr. R. Hanley, of the Southern Vectis Omnibus Co. Ltd., has been appointed traffic manager of Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd. and its associated companies.
Between' 50 and 60 members of the Western Area of the Road Haulage Association were present at a luncheon in Bristol last week when Mr. S. W. Nelson, the Western Licensing Authority, presented two cheques to Mr. A. G. Akers, who recently retired after 27 years as area secretary. One cheque was from the Association and the other from 250 members whose names were inscribed on a scroll also presented.
Mr. E. E. C. Cawood, technical director of Nu-Swift Industries Ltd. and its subsidiary, Nu-Swift International Ltd., has been elected vice-chairman of both companies. Appointed as associate directors of Nu-Swift International Ltd. are: research and development manager, Mr. S. Anderton; London regional sales manager, Mr. E. Good; service manager, Mr. D. Holmes; export manager, Mr. E. Hudson; Western Scotland area manager, Mr. W. Macdonald; and London manager, Mr. D. Martin.
Obituary
WEregret to record the deaths of Mr. I. E. Coward, Herr H. Hertel, Sir John Pascoe and Mr. L. G. Wyndham Shire.
Mr. Coward, of Ulverston, died in hospital only four days after his retirement as an area superintendent for Ribble Motor Services Ltd. He had been with the company for 33 years, having been appointed district traffic superintendent at Dalton-in-Furness in 1930 when Ribble took over the Furness Omnibus Co. of which he was secretary.
Herr Hertel, chairman since its founda• Lion of the German furniture transport association Arbeitsgemcinschaft Mobeltransport e.V., was a board member since the same year-1947—of the nat'onar road transport body Zentralarbeitsgemeinschaft des Strassenverkehrsgewerbes e.V. Herr Hertel was a director of the furniture transport undertaking Deutsche Mitheltransport GmbH.
Sir John Pascoe, who died on February 5, was chairman of British Timken, having been a member of the hoard since 1930. He was also chairman of Aberdare Cables Ltd. and several associated companies.
Mr. Shire was chief engineer of Midland Red from 1912 until he retired in 1940. He was appointed by the B.E.T., in 1908, to experiment at Deal with motorbuses in the old Deal and District Motor Services Ltd., which subsequently became merged with East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. ln 1923 he designed the "SOSlight, pneumatic-tyred, single-deck bus, which subsequently became the forerunner of Midland Red's policy of designing and building its own vehicles.