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111 John Minchinton has been appointed tachograph sales engineer by Lucas Kienzle Instruments, and will be responsible for furthering sales to vehicle manufacturers of original equipment. Mr Minchinton was previously with Smiths Industries in a similar capacity.
J. W. Leech is the new president of the Mechanical Handling Engineers' Association. A director of Douglas-Rownson Ltd, a member of the Baker Perkins Group, he succeeds J. Findlay (Mayor and Coulson Ltd) as president and automatically becomes chairman of the association's executive committee. The new first vice-president of the MHEA is R. F. Upton (Sovex Ltd), and the second vicepresident F. Jordison Wirtley Engineering Ltd).
James Methven, an executive director with the Scottish Bus Group, now 65 and due to retire, has been asked to stay on for another year. He has particular responsibilities for industrial relations within the Group and for the operations of the Fife company which is part of it.
0. F. Wright has been appointed area accountant, Scottish area, BRS Parcels Ltd. He was previously accounts supervisor at the Scottish management accounting unit of British Road Services Ltd. Mr Wright succeeds the late Mr Robert Loughlin.
D. B. Pratt has been elected chairman of the Bristol division of the Industrial Transport Association; A. T. Furnival is vice-chairman: D. Akester secretary; K. Noy treasu rer.
K. Rogers (Silver Roadways Ltd, Bury St Edmunds) has been elected chairman of the Eastern area of the Road Haulage Association; J. W. Richards (Haddenham, Cambs) and A. J. Geater (D. C. Geater and Sons Ltd, Oxted) are vice-chairmen.
John J. Kane has been appointed manager—industrial lubricants division of BurmahCastrol, (Ireland) Ltd, which is also responsible for marketing special products and production oils.
Ra't('Smith has been \ appointed Crosland Filters Ltd sales representative for North East London and East Anglia. Mr Smith had previously been a representative, and then sales superintendent with large oil companies.
Bryn L. Evans, assistant export sales manager for Telehoist Ltd. of Cheltenham, is on an export sales trip to West Africa.
W. L. Screen, traffic manager of the Midland General Group, has retired after 50 years in the bus industry. Mr Screen started his career with the South Normanton Bus Company in 1921.
Len Dean, a director for the past 20 years of Knighton Transport Supplies Ltd, Leicester, has retired after 44 years with the company.
J. A. Hay has been appointed chief accountant to ERF Ltd and is responsible for the accounting and administration of its Sandbach companies; T. E. Lewis, who has been with ERF since 1937, becomes cost accountant. James G. Millar, previously managing director of John M. Millar Ltd, of Falkirk, has joined Millburn-Wilkinson Ltd, a Scottish Automobile Co Ltd subsidiary, and will take up the appointment of general manager on the retirement of P. G. Armstrong in September. Ronald Corn has been appointed secretary and accountant of Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd in succession to B. W. France, who has moved to another post • in the South of England. Mr Corn has been assistant accountant with the Northern General Group since 1961.
L. J. Dalton and R. H. Thomas have been appointed York and Plymouth branch managers respectively by BRS Parcels Ltd.
Gerald Rooke, managing director of Rooke's Transport ITadcaster) Ltd, has bought the family business of J. B. Laban, haulier, of Melbourne, Derby. Mr Laban is retiring after many years in Midlands road haulage.
Leslie Wenham, 46, the National Carriers Ltd depot manager at Ashford since 1963. moves to Margate.
F. Paul Kendall Jnr, managing director of Conoco Europe, has assumed the responsibilities of chief executive from W, F. Brown who has been elected a vice-president of the Continental Oil Company in New York.
A. D. Arnsby, W. E. Keen, A. Smith and R. D. Thompson have been elected Members of the Industrial Transport Association. Elected Associate Members: E. V. Black, C. B. Milligan, F. T. Smith, G. A. Walker, C. S. Wardlow, T. D. H. Watson-Wood; Associates: C. D. Godden, R. W. Prout, J. S. Russell, E. E. Sutton.
R. A. Young, deputy managing director of Electro-Hydraulics Ltd, and acting chief executive since July, 1970, has been appointed managing director.
M. Grieve, who has spent eight years on the lamp development side at Osram (GEC) Ltd, is joining the marketing division as product manager, vehicle bulbs, and will concentrate on the UK market. His predecessor. W. T. Barnes, becomes project manager, vehicles bulbs, responsible for bulbs on a worldwide basis.
Sir Basil Smallpeice has been appointed chairman of Associated Container Transportation (Australia) Ltd in succession to Ronald A. Vestey, who has retired from the chairmanship and board. E. H. Vestey becomes deputy chairman, and David Lloyd and B. R. Hazlitt directors M. F. Strachan has been appointed chairman of Associated Container Transportation Ltd in succession to Sir Basil Smallpeice, who has resigned from the chairmanship and board of ACT, Mr E. H. Vestey becomes vice-chairman and J. D. M. Hearth a director.
D. W. Charles, of R. E. Nixon Ltd, haulage contractor, has been appointed to the transport committee of Merseyside Chamber of Commerce.