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Mn. H. E. JOHNSON, secretary of Dennis•Bros., Ltd., has been appointed a director.
SIR JAMES GRIGG has become a director of the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.
MR. HEDLEY A. DAY, of Flinders Motors, Ltd., Leyland agent in Adelaide, South Australia, has arrived in England on a business trip.
Mn. SAMUEL SMITH, chairman of
Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, has returned from a business visit to South America.
MR. H. GREENWOOD has been appointed production control manager of Wingard (M.A.), Ltd., and MR. D. R. COLLISTER has taken over the post of production engineering manager.
MR. J. A. STANLEY, manager of the highway transportation department of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd., has gone to America to attend conferences and study the methods of the major bus operators.
MR. H. A. PARSON has been appointed manager of the tyre sales division of Pirelli,. Ltd. He first joined the Pirelli company upwards of 25 years ago, and has represented it in the London area, Southampton and finally in the Midland area, where he was regional manager.
SIR CYRIL HURCOMB, chairman of the British, Transport Commission, left London on Wednesday on a three-day tour of rail, road and dock installations in Cheshire and Lancashire.. MR. J. H. BREWER, chief public relations and publicity officer, MR. V. M. BARRINGTON-WARD, Railway Executive, and MR. G. L. DARBYSIHRE, chief regional officer of the London Midland Region, British Railways, accompanied him.
LORD SEM?ILL, president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, attended the International Automobile Congress organized by the International Federation of Associations of Automobile Engineers and Technicians and the Associazione Tecnica dell'Automobile (Italy), in Turin,' last week, and react a paper on "The Social and Moral Role of the Engineeand Technician in the Struggle to Save Western Civilization."
SIR CHARLES TENNYSON, C.M.G., secretary of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., since 1928, is retiring as from to-day. When he joined Dunlop 20 years ago, Sir Charles had been eight years deputy director of the Federation of British Industries. Before that he was at the Colonial Office as assistant legal adviser for seven years. He will continue to assist Dunlop in an advisory capacity, remaining a member of its central training committee.