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MR. MARK M. CANSACK, commercial manager of Specialloid, Ltd., has been elected a councillor on the Finchley Borough Council.
MR. F. REAL and Mn. L. BELL have returned from the Services to take up heir old positionswith Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., as sales repreentative. and service engineer respec.ively.
MR. H. E. AsHav, credit manager oC he Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., recently completed 20 years' service with the company. To commetinorate:the occasion, he received frotn Mr. Wm. E. Duck, chairman and managing direct, a gold wrist-watch.
MR. DOUGLAS CRABBE, power and maintenance engineer at Fort Dunlop, has been appointed -chief engineer of the former bomber factory at Speke, Liverpool, rdcently acquired by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. After five years in the Royal Artillery during the 1914-18 war, he went to Fort Dunlop, where he was chief officer of the fire brigade and air-raid precautions officer in addition to his engineering duties.
. DR. WILLIAM T. GRIFFITHS, who Sil(:.ceeded Mr. David Owen Evan's as chairman of the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., has been appointed vice-president and director of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd. As one of the c.ountry's most distinguished metallurgists, Dr. Griffiths made several visits to the United States during the war on behalf of the Government, and he has for many years been responsible for the research activities of the nickel industry. He has, for the past two years, been president of the Institute of Metals.
MR. GEORGE C. TucK has been appointed factory representative for the Near East by Nuffield Exports, Ltd., which is responsible for the entire overseas business' of the Nuffield Group. Before the war he was, for 10 years, publicity manager of the M.G. Car Co., and during the war, as a Lieut.-Colonel in the Ordnance Corps, he spent five years in the Near East, gaining considerable knowledge of the countries in which he will operate for the Nuffield Organization. His headquarters will be in Alexandria.
CAPT. W. LAUGHTON has now returned to the Mercantile Credit Co., Ltd., after five years' service in. the Royal Army Service Corps (North Africa, Italy and Egypt), and will be operating from 70, Albion Street, Leeds.
Ma. F. R. DODGSON has rejoined Pirelli, Ltd., on his demobilization from the Army, and has resumed his pre-war activities as manager of the company's Newcastle depot at 33, Blandford Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is well known to traders in the north.
MR. A. G. PETRIE HAY, who was London manager for the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., of Warwick, for some 16 years prior to the war, has now returned from the Services. He served with 796 Mechanical Equipment Coy., Royal Engineers, and, latterly, with the Armament Design Department, Ministry of Supply.
MR. K. A. MOULTON-BARRETT, whose portrait appears on this page, has joined Fodens, Ltd., and is taking over the following territory for the sale of Foden goods and passenger vehicles:—Berwick, Selkirk, Peebles, Roxburgh, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown,. Ayr, and that portion of Lanark outside a 12-mile radius from the G.P.O., Glasgow.
Ma. L, B. N. ROWLEY, M.1.M.T., has returned from -the Services to take up his position as chairman of Rowley's (Witham), Ltd., the motor-engineering and transport-contracting concern of Witham, Essex. He has been in the R.T.R. and R.E.M.E., and in the latter attained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
MR. IVOR GRAY has resumed his duties as area manager of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co. (Cardiff and Barry) following his demobilization. MR. F. PENGELLY, who deputized for Mr. Gray while the latter was in the Forces, has been transferred to the traffic manager's staff at the company's headquarters at Ely.
MR. 0. F: SWANBOROUGH has been appointed managing director of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., whilst MR. F. G. RoinuNts becomes general sales manager. Mr. Swanborough has served the company in various capacities, including those of works manager and joint managing director, since 1925, when he joined the company. Mr. Robbins joined the Avon concern in 1916, and, after a period of war service, returned to form and develop the export organization of the company, holding the position of export manager up to the present time.
MR. R. N. BALLARD, who; for over 21 years, has been manager of the Birmingham branch of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has been appointed branch controller at the head office of the company. In this position he will direct the operation of all the company's home branches and establish new branches wherever these may be necessary. His place at Birmingham is being filled by MR. N. J. ELLEavEcK,'-'who has, for several years, looked after the interests of the company in the Newcastle area. MR. J. FOTHERGILL, from the Manchester branch, fills the vacancy at Newcastle. MR. A. R. COLES, who was recently transferred from Bristol to the head office of the company, has been appointed London area branch man ager, whilst Mn. STONEMAN, who has been well known for many years as the Simms senior service engineer, has'been appointed service Manager,