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MR. A. J. RAYMENT, chairman of The Car Mart, Ltd., recently flew by B.O.A.C. to Southern Rhodesia on a business tour.
MR. W. D. SLATTER has succeeded MR. R. W. WHALE as sales manager of Halts (Finchley), Ltd. Mr. Slatter was previously with The Car Mart, Ltd.
MR. C. H. KAIN, joint managing director of Lake and Elliot, Ltd., has been elected chairman of the council of the British Steel Castings Research Association.
MR. ALLAN BorwooD, who recently resigned his managing directorship of Harry Ferguson, Ltd., is to join the Rover Co., Ltd., in the New Year to take charge of sales.
MR. W. D. S. CARELESS has become special representative of the Davies Tyre Co., Ltd., covering London north of the Thames, Essex, Middlesex and parts of Buckinghamshire.
MR. W. J. PRICE, divisional marketing officer (transport), North Eastern Division, National Coal Board, has been appointed a member of the Yorkshire Transport Users' Consultative Com'rnittee.
MR. A. G. CURTIS, who has succeeded MR. J. W. FLErctrER as East Midland Licensing Authority, was warmly welcomed at his first sitting at Nottingham recently. Mr. Fletcher retired on December 2.
• MR. M. I. PRICHARD has been appointed personal assistant to MR. F. PERKINS, chairman and managing director of F. Perkins, Ltd„ and is accompanying him on his latest overseas business trip to India.
MR. C. A. LYON caught pneumonia shortly after joining the sales staff of the Nightingale Engineering Co., Ltd. (The Commercial Motor, November 6), and has been ill for some weeks. He expects to return to duty next week.
MR. W. E. C. GREENWOOD, until recently with the Nuffield Organisation, has been appointed senior representative of Tudor Accessories, Ltd„ covering the Southern Counties and to act as liaison officer with vehicle manufacturers.
MR. D. EARNstrAw has been appointed assistant manager of the Bristol district of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., and MR. L. C. HUTTON assistant manager of the Southampton district, MR. W. H. BoLpna has become salesman for Breeknock and Part of Glamorgan, territory previously covered by Ma. N. 0. WALTERS, who is now service representative for South Wales,
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MR. J. M. BIRCH is to succeed MR, D. M. SINCLAUI as president of the Omnibus Society in 1954.
MR. R. Ems, a member of the engineering staff of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been appointed technical sales representative.
MR. W. V. H. GIBSON IS to .retire from the secretaryship of the Autcimobile Association on January 1, 1954, and will be succeeded by the present deputy secretary, MR. K. L. KELLY.
MR. R. C. GARDNER has been appointed manager of the London office of the Measham Motor Sales Organisation, Ltd. He ran his own transport company before the war and later became senior transport officer of the British Military Government in Austria. He was recently with J. Davy, Ltd.
HELIER SIGNPOSTING IN LONDON 'THE Minister of Transport has I accepted a working party's recommendations for better signposting in London. There will be ,a number of " through-route " signs with yellow backgrounds to help drivers find their way into and out of the city or avoid the centre.
These will be based on two eireular routes, one the existing north and south circular roads, and the other an inner ring by way of Hyde Park Corner, Elephant and Castle, Tower Bridge and Marylebone Road.
Signposts of a more local nature, embodying a blue background, will be erected later. They will bear the names of districts and state mileages. Each local authority has received drawings of the position of signs, with requests for their erection. There are more than 250 drawings covering nearly 2,000 signs.
No Control of State Industries
THEgeneral council of the Trades Union Congress consider that there is no real case for setting up a Standing Select Committee of the House of Commons to examine and report on the administration and activities of nationalized industries.
Such a proposal was made by the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries. The council believe that adequate information is already available in the annual reports of State undertakings and that it would be more valuable if the Government and M..P.s directed their attention to ways of improving Parliamentary discussion on these reports.
Trade unions are to be asked by the T.U.C. for their views on ways of taking the best advantage of joint consultation machinery.
ANTI-FREEZE LEAK DETECTION
LEAKS in the cooling system can easily be noticed when Greenglo, an ethylene glycol solution, is used, because it is of an intense colour. The possibility of losing anti-freeze is therefore minimized, The makers are Calder Oils. Ltd., Dewsbury.