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Mu. J. C. WANE has been designated deputy general manager of the transport department of Middlesbrough Corporation
MR. J. C. FRANKLIN, of Birmingham, has been appointed rolling-stock superintendent of the transport undertaking of Walsall Corporation.
MR. A. J. LOWE, London manager for Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd., has now re-opened the London office of the company at AlcIwych House, W.C.2..
Ms. G. A, DA SATS, of Tube Investments, Led., has been elected chairman for the ensuing year of the Birmingham branch of the Industrial Transport As-soCiation, MR. JAMES 'FERGUSON, for 50 years with Cowan and Co.; of Glasgow, with . which he has been operating manager, hag retired after 62 years in the transport industry.
Mg. -G. H. BROOK has reverted to part-tim.e status in the N.F.S. and taken up duties at the West Riding Area headquarters of the Road Haulage Association; in Leeds, after four years' full-time work in the National Fire Service as transport officer for No 4 Area, based on Leeds. He retains his N.F.S. rank as column officer. He was formerly secretary of the old North." 'Eastern Division of the C.M.U.A. Appointed in 1934, he relinquished the duties in 1941 on becoming a full-time officer in the N.F.S • .-COL , W. 11, BINNS, Who has been serving in the Army since 1939, and who had much to do with the development and design of pneumatic tyres for the Services, has now returned to the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber CO. (Great Britain), Ltd., Wolverhampton,
MR. D. E. Goucti, B.Sc., I.P., the representative in India of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, is, at present, OTI a visit to this country. He hopes to be here until mid-November. During his stay he will he at the service of those members of the Society who are interested in the Indian market. He can be communicated .with at the Society's offices, 143, Piccadilly, London, W.1
COLONEL C. E. FARRER, M. C. , formerly Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Advance Base Workshops, R.E.M.E„ 21 Army Group, has joined the staffs of Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Co., Ltd., and S.S.S. Gears, Ltd., Fluidrive Works, Isleworth, as technical sales engineer, being particularly concerned with Fluidrive
$.S-S. (Synchro Self Shifting) _transinnis-, skins for vehicles.
. -Con_ G. TBOMPSON, TI).,
R.E.M.E., has now been released from the Services and has resumed his position as director of W. L. Thompson,, Ltd., the concern of automobile distributors and engineers of Hull.
MR. W. K. B. MARSHALL, B.Eng., A.M:Inst.W., has been. awarded the Sir William j. Larke Medal, for 1945, by the Council of the Institute of Welding, for a'paper .entitled The Fabrication of Aircraft Fuel Tanks in Aluminiugi Alloy .Containing 3 per cent. Ma.„,qnesium." Mr. Marshall is a metallurgist on the staff of the Aluminium Plant and Vessel Co.,Ltd.
MR. ALFRED SMITH, who recently resigned from the Board of Graft and Sutcliffe, Ltd., the concern of Keighley
commercial-vehicle engineers, h a s entered a retirement which he has earned by 40 years' activity in motor engineering. Before he joined the Grace and Sutcliffe company 15 years ago, he was in the motorbus field as chief engineer for United Automobile Ser-vice,, Ltd., a•pos,ition he held for some
10 S years. Mr. Smith's son, MR. WILLIAM SMITH, has also resigned from the direetorate of Grace and Sutcliffe. Ltd., to Start up a business in Leeds— Galway Services (Leeds), Ltd. He is representing Commer interests.