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MR. H. DE G. WARTER has become public relations officer of the Regent Oil Co., Ltd. MRS. V. G. ELELMAN is assistant to him.
MR. J. C. CitsismEas is to succeed MR. G. COLE DEACON as secretary of the Central Transport Consultative Committee. Mr. Cole Deacon is to retire at the end of July.
MR. W. A. PATON, chairman, Mann Egerton and Co., Ltd., has received the Blue Peter southern area challenge cup from MR. W. G. W. BIRD, Managing director, Blue Peter Retreads, Ltd.
MR. B. R. .MILLER has been elected chairman and-Ma. R. P. FARRELL Vicechairman Of the Portsmouth centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. MR. H. PUTMAN continues as honorary treasurer.
MR. S. S. GUY, chairman and managing director of Guy • Motors, Ltd., and MAJ.-GEN. J. S. CRAWFORD, director, are returning from South Africa after. a .10-week: tour. Orders worth £500,000 were secured.
MR. A: H. Gomm has been appointed manager, head office sales, of the A.E.I.Lamp and Lighting Co.; Ltd. MR. R. P. B. VOADEN is now manager of the Midland region and MR. Gs W.. NATERASS manager of the north-east 'region.
• MR. FRANK PERKINS has been elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and. Traders in succession i0 DR. F. LLEWELLYN SMITH, who has become deputy president. MR. A. S. DICK and MR. GEOFFREY ROUTES have been elected vice-presidents. MAJ.-GEN. J. S. CRAWFORD retains the office of treasurer.
MR. FRANK COUSINS has been elected general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union in succession to the late MR. A. E. TIFF/N. He was appointed assistant general secretary in August last year and became acting general secretary after Mr. Tiffin's death in December. Mr, Cousins was a long-distance lorry driver for 13 years, MR. F. LEVER, Bristol district manager of British Road Services, has been appointed north-western divisional traffic officer. MR. R. THWAITE, district estate surveyor, British Railways, Preston, has been appointed B.R.S. north western •divisional surveyor. Mr. Lever served with the parcels delivery section of Manchester Transport Department from 1926-1939, when he became depot superintendent at Rushden for P.X., Ltd. During the war he was assistant divisional road haulage officer for the south-western division of the Road Haulage Organization. In 1949 he became district traffic Superintendent at Bristol with 13.R.S., and was appointed district manager in 1952.
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MR. H. LEWIS has been appointed consumer trade, manager of the northwest division of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd. He was formerly North Wales branch sales supervisor.
MR. L. R. HEDGCOCK, formerly London and Midland regional manager, Tecalemit, Ltd., Plymouth, has been appointed divisional manager (regions). MR., G. W. ELY, previously London and Midland regional supervisor, becomes Mr. Hedgcock's assistant. MR. D. A. MONAGHAN now becomes manager of the London and Midland region at Great West Road, Brentford. He was formerly manager of the Scottish and Northern Ireland region. MR. J. J. BELL, M.I.Mar.E., previously industrial representative for the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, has been appointed manager of the Scottish and Northern Ireland region based on Glasgow. MR. J. E. DatmcwsTER, production manager, becomes deputy general factory manager under the factory manager, MR. B. E. RICHMOND. MR. E. G. SIMMONS has been appointed technical manager responsible for the design and development of fire-fighting equipment for Foamite, Ltd., a Tecalemit subsidiary. MR. R. R. PARKER becomes manufacturers' divisional manager: he was formerly manager of the motor manufacturers' and aviation division. MR. D. G. THORPE is now supervisor of the motor manufacturers' business, responsible to Mr. Packer. MR. J. G. H. MAXFIF.LD, industrial consultant, becomes industrial manager, also responsible to Mr. Parker, and MR. D. M. BRUCE is appointed sales administrator resppnsible to the sales co-ordination manager, MR. R. F. BROOK ER_ MR. R. A. PITTMAN has been appointed secretary of the British. Engineers' Association in succession 10 BRIG. J. V. TOPHAM.
MR. R. HICKSON has been appointed chief chemist of Blue Peter Retreads, Ltd. Ma, P. J. KENT has become salesdevelopment manager and Ma. T. N. VESTY northern manager.
MR. JOHN HARRISON has been appointed joint managing director, with MR. D. G. NORTHAM, of A. W. Chapman, Ltd., a subsidiary of Constructors, Ltd., and makers of vehicle seats.
CLLR. P. BARKER has been elected mayor of Rochdale. A member of the transport committee, air. Barker has been a keen advocate of concession fares during his service on the committee.
MR. J. F. BEATON has been appointed transport officer to Ayr County Council and will take up his new duties on June 18. For the past two years, be has been transport officer of Fife County Council at Cupar.
MR. R. S. INGERSOLL, chairman of Borg-Warner, Ltd., has been elected president of the Borg-Warner Corporation. He joined the organization in 1939 and became administrative vicepresident in 1953, assuming the chairmanship of the British company when it was formed last year.
MR. R. APPLEBY, director and general manager of Black and Decker, Ltd„ has been appointed director of international operations of the parent company, the Black and Decker Manufacturing Co., Towson, U.S.A. MR. JOHN W. A. MEREDITH has become export sales manager of Black and Decker, Ltd.
MR. W. NEWLAND, commercial manager of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has left for a visit to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. He will be away for about two months. Part of his task is to pave the way for MR. J.• Mauna:), who leaves England in .July to become the company's factory representative and service engineer in New Zealand and Australia.