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LORD HURST OF WrrroN has accepted nomination as president of the Federation of British Industries for the next presidential year, which commences in April. LORD ABERCONWAY. C.B.E., and MR. A. H. KILMER have been nominated as additional vicepresidents.
We learn that MR. BENJAMIN KING,° who • recently resigned the English managing directorship of Citron Cars, Ltd., has been appointed a director and chairman of Chrysler Motors, Ltd., and Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., MR. C. MORTON LOMAX, who has been for several years chairman and managing director of the Chrysler and Dodge concerns, having resigned his office as chairman. The move will enable• Mr. Lomax to devote more time to distribution.
MR. W. E. ROOTES, chairman and head of the Rootes group of companies, left yesterday for a world tour of some six months' duration. He makes his present tour as vice-president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, but he is, in addition, a member of the Overseas Trade Development Council and of the Governing Board of the British Council for Relations with Other Countries. His primary object is to obtain intimate knowledge of affairs of interest to British commerce and, in particular, to the British motor industry.
News was received on Tuesday that MR. C. W. REEVE, chairman and managing director of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., who left Croydon aerodrome on December 31 to fly to Australia, on the regular air-mail route, had reached Port Darwin. He was due to arrive at Brisbane yesterday (Thursday), by which time he will have completed 12,754 miles in 121 flying days. When he returns to this country' on April 6, Mr. Reeve will have covered some 28,000 miles on this combined business and pleasure tour.