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MAJOR E. W. SENIOR has joined the board of G.. Beaton and Sons, Ltd.
MR. W: L. STLW AY and MR. R. J. SHIPTON have joined the board' of Godfrey Davis, Ltd.
MR. JOHN FEARN has been elected to the bawd of Vokes, Ltd. He is chairman of I. H. Shand, Ltd.
MR. C. E. P. 1 i0LE has been appointed sales manager of R. Cripps and Co., Ltd., Rootes group distributor, Nottingham.
MR. RENAULT S. Sr. LAURENT,
B.A., L.L.L., the son of the Canadian Prime Minister, has joined the 'hoard of the Austin Motor Co. (Canada), Ltd. ---- MR. C. B. NIXON, chairman and governing director of Leyland Motors. Ltd, has been appointed a member of the Noeth-West Electricity Consultative Council.
MR. F. A. CALLABY has been appointed financial controller of the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd. He will be directly responsible to the managing director.
MR. A. BAREisLEy, formerly technical assistant to the service manager of A.C.V. Sales, Ltd., Stockport, has been appointed engineering assistant of Rochdale Transport Department.
MR. BERNARD B. SYKES has been appointed public relations officer to the British Road Federation. He succeeds MR. R. B. SAWREY-COOKSON, who has taken up an outside appointment.
MR. J. F. BELL has been appointed assistant sales manager of Ondura, Ltd. The supervisor for the Manchester and Midland area is now, MR. JOHN FLEMING. Whilst MR. JAIMES A. FLEMING, has become depot superintendent MR. G. W. HARRIMAN, C.B.E., deputy managing director of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., has been appointed deputy chairman of that concern and deputy managing director of the British Motor Corporation. He began his career with Morris Motors, in Coventry, in 1923 and joined Austin in 1940. He has been on the B,M.C. board since its inception last year.
CUTS IN SERVICES
THE Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., has cut unremunerative services to offset rising costs, rather than raise fares. Last year, the company lost money on 44 per cent. of its routes.
The general manager, Mr. P. N. Gray, stated that some members of the public would be called upon to make small sacrifices rather than that the concern should ask the whole of its customers to pay more to keep little-used services going..