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MR.. R. T. ROBERTS, traffic superintendent of I3irkenhead Corporation Gas .Department for 25 years, has retired after 40 years' service.
MR. LESLIE BURGIN, Minister of Transport, is on a sea voyage to Madeira, after which he is going to Switzerland for a tramping holiday.
Following his appointment as general manager, MR. W. VINCENT 1VAITE, 0.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., has joined the directorate of F. E. Tranter and Co., Ltd., Farnborough, Rent, a concern manufacturing motor components.
MR. Husain. SCOTT-PAINE has been appointed acting chairman of Henry Meadows, Ltd., in succession to the late Mr. Henry Meadows. Apart from being a director of Imperial Ainvays, Ltd., Mr.. Scott-Paine is chairman of the British Power Boat Co.
' We learn with regret that MR. FRED COOK, managing director of Fred Cook (Transport), Ltd., the well-known transpOrt contractor operating between Hull and LOndon, has met with a serious motoring accident in France while on holiday with his family. Mrs. Cook was killed, and Mr. Cook and his eldest daughter, also a friend in the car, were severely injured.
The president of the Institution of Automobile Engineers for the coming session will be MAJOR-GEN. S. CAPEL PECK, C.B., D.S.O. He was one of the first holders of a University Degree to be appointed diiectly to a regular commission in the Army.
After serving in India and Northern Nigeria, he graduated at the Military College of Science, and, from 1908 to 1914 held positions as assistant experimental officer and assistant inspector of the Inspection Department at the Royal Arsenal. During the Great War he commanded a battery of Royal Artillery for two years and was then appointed to the staff. In 1922 he became assistant director on the staff of the Master General of Ordnance, at the War Office, and in 1928 was appointed Director of Mechanization. • General Peck originated the Mechanization 'Board, which was the first real liaison between the Army and the engineering institutions, so he has particular interest in the work of the Institution of Automobile Engineers.