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Ma. G. W. SF.sa has been appointed Eastern Traffic Area representative of the Thornycroft. organization.
MR. R. B. WHEELLII, formerly chief engineer of the City Coach Co., Ltd., has joined Birch Bros., Ltd., in a similar capacity.
SIR JOHN BLACX, deputy chairman and managing director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., has sailed to North America to study market conditions there.
MR. N. J. BELL, who has joined Hawson, Ltd., Sunbury-on-Thames, as export sales manager, was formerly an export sates representative of the Rootes group.
MR. R. F. BUSHROD, M.B.E., traffic manager of Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., is to become general manager of the Southern Weds Omnibus Co., Ltd.
MR. G. E. BEH ARRELL, deputy chairman and managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has been nominated president of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund for 1953-54.
MR. HAROLD WA1 KINSON, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, will speak at an informal luncheon of the Institute of Transport on February 24 at the Connaught Rooms, London, W.C.2.
MR. A. T. LENNOX-BOYD, M.P., Minister of Transport, will be the principal guest at the annual luncheon of the Mansion House Association on Transport, at the Trocadcro Restaurant, London, W.1, on March 27.
MR. H. WinsFraw, 0,B.E., Dunlop's chief engineer, is on his way to Brazil to assist in the construction of a new factory for Dunlop do Brasil and the installation of plant there, This is the latest Dunlop factory to be erected overseas.
MR. W. K. PARKER, Nottingham district sales manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd.. has been appointed Midland Regional sales manager in succession to the late MR. F. GARDNER. Mr. Parker joined the company in 1946. Mr. B. S. Pickup has succeeded Mr. Parker at Nottingham.
MR. F. Y. FRAZER, general manager of Lincoln Transport Department, MR. T. L. Kisn,Ev, deputy general manager of Glasgow Transport Department, and Ma. R. MACKENZIE, general manager of Halifax Transport Department, are on the short list of applicants for the post of general manager of Aberdeen Transport Department, which will be considered by the town council next month. MR. R. C. HARROWER has been appointed assistant manager of the Birkenhead lubricants works of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.
MR. I. E. MAUND has been appointed service engineer and factory representative of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., in South Africa. He will co-ordinate the activities of the four Simms depots in Johannesburg, Capetown, Durban and Welkom.
SIR CLIVE BAILLIEU, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., on whom a barony was conferred in the New Year's Honours, will take the name, style and title of Lord Baillieu of Sefton, in Australia, and of Parkwood in Surrey. He is the third Australian to become a peer.
'13,139 MORE C-L10ENSEES THERE were 13,139 more ancillary I users and 37,593 more C-licence vehicles in December, 1952, than a year earlier. The number of operators rose from 403,544 to 416,683, and the number of vehicles from 796,343 to 833,936.