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MR. R. H. BERNAYS has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport,
ALDERMAN JOHN LORD, J.P., the new Mayor of Accrington, is chairman of the Corporation Transport Committee and an old railway worker,
MR. P. G. COTTIS, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Cottis and Sons, haulage contractors and builders merchants, West Street, Rochford, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for Essex.
MR. F. C. YAPP, director .of Vickers, Ltd., and Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., has been appointed to the position of deputy chairman of Vickers-Arrnstrongs, Ltd.
MA/OR W. H. GODDARD, Jessamine Avenue, Beeston, Leeds, 11, wellknown as a pioneer of oil-engined transport, is now busily engaged on the conversion of motor vehicles for gas fuel. He informs us that the rush for this conversion work is almost alarming.
MR. 3. R. PARRY, factory engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the Near East, covering Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and Iran, was amongst the people caught unawares on the Continent by the swift-moving events of recent days. Returning to
England by the Overland route through Russia, Poland and Germany, Mr. Parry experienced considerable difficulty owing to the stoppage of the normal train services, in leaving the lastnamed country and it was only through the friendliness and help of a few German civilians that he was able to do so.
. MR. P. L. OWENS, formerly secretary of the South Wales Division of the C.M.U.A., was, on September 11, appointed secretary of the South Wales Area of Associated Road Operators. Mr. Owens has had considerable experience in the commercial-motor industry. After leaving school he was trained at the Commercial College, Cardiff, and for nine years was in the motor trade.
Following this, he joined the Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association, later merged with the C.M.U.A.,, when he became assistant secretary to Mr.
Clifford Thomas. Upon the latter's resignation, in 1937, Mr. Owens was appointed divisional secretary of the C.M.U.A. in South Wales. He was secretary of the Welsh Motor Factors, Ltd., and now occupies a similar position for the Employers' Panel of the National Joint Conciliation Board (Passenger) for South Wales. He is also secretary of the road side of the South Wales Road and Rail Regional Committee.
MR. JOHN LYON COLLYER, joint managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has resigned and will shortly return to his native country, the United States. He has had nearly 10 years of Dunlop service in Great Britain, his first position having been that of works director at Fort Dunlop towards the close of 1929. In 1931, Mr. Collyer was appointed controller of manufacture at headquarters and in 1936 he joined the board with the title " Director of Manufacture."
When Sir George Beharrell succeeded to the chairmanship in 1937, Mr, Collyer, together with Mr. C. A. Proctor, was made joint managing director of the company. During the period 1925-1929 he held the position of vice-president of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation, Buffalo, New York. It is understood that Mr. Collyer's services will not be lost to the rubber industry and that he will become president of the B.F. Goodrich Co., of America.