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MR. ALLAN AVISON and MR, DAVID BROWN, 3NR., have joined the board of the David Brown Corporation.
MR. P. KELVIN JOHNSON has been tppointed to represent industry on the South-eastern Area Transport Users' Consultative Committee.
MR. GEOFFREY STONES is next Monday rejoining the staff of Transport Engineering and Equipment. Ltd., as works manager. He is now fully restored to health after a two-year absence.
MR. I. L. GRAY, general manager of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., is to succeed MR. W. M. DRAVERS as general manager of the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., as from December 1.
MR. A. E. HUK1NS has resigned his position as managing director of the E.N.Y. Engineering Co., Ltd., but retains his seat on the board. MR. E. B. WILSON, formerly assistant managing director, has been appointed managing director.
LORD. BAILLIEU, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.. has sailed for New York to lead a Commonwealth delegation at a conference of the English Speaking Union. He will also visit Dunlop factories at Buffalb, Toronto and Whitby. BARON CH. on Wotrrms, vice-chairman of Societe Anonyme des Pneumatiques Dunlop, has been appointed president and managing director of the concern in succession to the late M. AtionsTE DUTREUX. M. G. LATTARD, head of the accounting service, has been elected to the board and becomes assistant managing director. MR. M. G. BHAT, bus superintendent of Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking, is at present visiting Leyland Motors, Ltd.
MR. H. J. CAMPLIN, London sates manager of Albion Motors, Ltd., MR. W. P. KIRKw000, works manager, and MR. A. CRAIG MACDONALD, production controller, have been elected directors.
MR. E. LORD is chairman of the Carlisle and District Transport Citib for the winter session just started. He will be succeeded in the following two years by MR. I. Florio and MR. B. P. BLACKBURN. The secretary is MR. J. L. STEVENS.
MR. B. F. CAuxr, [waging director of Atkinson Lorries ('1933), Ltd., is visiting Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to study the market for heavy vehicles in those countries. He is expected to arrive back iri England towards the end of December.
MR. E. W. GAIN, senior executive assistant in the office of the new works engineer of London Transport, has been appointed a principal executive assistant. MR, J. E. W. HANSCOMB, senior executive assistant in charge of building-contract, survey and inspection work, has also been appointed a principal executive assistant.
OVERTIME BAN CUTS SERVICES
THE unofficial ban on overtime and rest day working, together with the shortage of road staff, led London Transport to introduce special schedules on Wednesday in respect of 10 central bus routes operating from 12 garages and the country services operating from Amershara and Leatherhead garages. Of L.T.E.'s 114 garages, 96 are now operating the ban.