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MR. A. ROBERT JENKINS has been installed president of the Institute of Welding. MR. H. B. FERGUSSON has become vice-president.
MR.HARRY WOODHEAD, chairman and formerly managing director ot Jowett Cars, Ltd., has retired 4fter being with the concern for 33 years.
LT.-COL. SIR MERVYN WHEATLEY,
K.B.E., has been appointed an additional member of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the southeastern area.
MR. G. A. CHERRY, general manager of Birkenhead Transport Department, is being recommended for the vicepresidency of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association.
COL. ARTHUR JERRETT was, last week, re-elected, for the eighth successive year, president of the Traders' Road
Transport Association. Mr. F. C. Bond, Mr. J. Janes, Mr. S. H. Jones and Mr. C. E. Jordan were elected vicediairmen, with Mr. H. C. Crane as national honorary treasurer.
Ma. .C, T, BRUNNER Will succeed MR. A. B. B. VALENTINE as president of the. Institute of Transport. He will take up the position on October 1. Mn. F. D. ARNEY, MR. I. W. S. BRANCKER, Sta. GILMOUR JENKINS, MR. S. KENNEDY, MRH. A. SHORT, and Mn. P. J. R. Tdsep have been elected vice-presiden,s.
M. J. RYAN has been elected chairman of the general council of the British Standards Institution in succession to SIR ROGER DUNCALFE, who has been elected vice-president. ViscotasT WAVERLEY has been re-elected president of the Institution for the third year. Mr. Ryan is vice-chairman of the Metal
Box Co., Ltd.
MR. A. CARLETON WHITLOCK, managing director of Whitlock Bros., Ltd., has recently returned to this coantry from a tour covering Turkey, Pakistan, India and East Africa. He attended the Royal Kenya Show in Nairobi, at which the company took a stand. Substantial export orders, particularly for trailers, have been obtained as a result of the tour,
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Mn. J. C. CALDWELL, IP., general manager of Scottish Oils, Ltd., has been appointed a director of the company.
MR. W. F. PAILING, director of the Maudslay Motor Co., Ltd., has joined E.N.V. Engineering Co., Ltd., as works director. He remains on the Maudslay board, but relinquishes his executive position.
MR. W. WHITEHEAD has been elected chairman of the Merseyside and North Wales Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association, and MR. A. L. BAGLEY vice-chairman, The retiring committee has been re-elected, with the addition Of MR. G. T. FITZPATRICK, MR. E. L. GREAVES and MR. T. G. Donn to fill vacancies.
Ma. W. Seonost (Mills and Seddon, Ltd., Farnworth, near Bolton) has been unanimously elected chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. He has been a member of the national council of the P.V.O.A. for many years. He was elected vicechairman two years ago. Tribute has been paid by the national council to the work of Mas,J. M. BIRCH as chairman for the past three years. New vice-chairmen are MR. F. J. SPEIGHT, MR. A. E. BREWER and MR. F. BROOMFIELD, Mn. S. D. ODDY is honorary treasurer.
,B.R. VEHICLES "SUPPRESSED"
ALL petrol-engined road vehicles operated by British Railways in the area to be covered by the new television transmitter at Wenyoe, South Wales, have been fitted with suppressors to minimize interference. Heed operating within range of the other four transmitters have been similarly equipped, the total cost for the 11,000 vehicles involved being £3,000.
In reply to a question in the House of Commons, last wee. the Assistant Postmaster-General declared that it was intended, early in the next session of the House, to make a regulation providing for the compulsory equipment of new cars with suppressors. At the monient. suppressors were being fitted voluntarily at the rate of 300,000 a month. •