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field service engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has now been appointed sales engineer (Western Hemisphere) of the company.
MR. RONALD W. CREBER has been appointed a director of G. Beaton and Son, Ltd., the vehicle component manufacturers, one of the 600 Group of Companies.
LORD BRABAZON OF TARA, chairman of Associated Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., has agreed to accept nomination as president ,of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund in succession to Mr. H. G. Henly.
DR. A. E. W. AUSTEN has been appointed an executive director of C.A.V., Ltd., of Acton, London, W.3. Dr. Austen, who was appointed chief engineer of the company in 1959, was chief research engineer from 1946.
MR. D. G. STOKES, sales director of Leyland Motors, Ltd., and managing director of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., is a member of the delegation from the Federation of British Industries which is visiting Nigeria before attending the Nigerian Industrial Development Conference in Lagos.
MR. H. J. BRIGG, a director of Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., and of its subsidiaries, Duple Motor Bodies (Midland), Ltd., Willowbrook, Ltd., and H. V. Burlingham. Ltd., is appointed general manager. MR. R. L. BANNISTER, formerly works manager at Atkinson Lorries. Ltd., is appointed general manager at H, V. Burlingham, Ltd., Blackpool.
MR. J. R. PAYNE has been elected a director of Esso Petroleum Co. (Ireland), Ltd., and Cleveland Petroleum Co., Ltd. He relinquishes his position as manager of the company's Midland Division and takes up his new duties immediately at the Esso headquarters, 36 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.1. MR. G. G. DSMAR. formerly sales man iger of Esso's Scottish Division, has been appointed Midland divisional manager to succeed Mr. Payne.
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MR. R. CORN has been appointed assistant accountant of the Northern General Transport' Co., Ltd., in succession to Mr. H. Armstrong.
MR. JOHN OLDHAM, chairman of Oldham and Son, Ltd., left Manchester last week on an eight-week visit to the Oldham Group's companies in Africa. During his visit to South Africa, Mr. Oldham will be joined by his son, MR. ORLANDO OLDHAM, now assistant managing director of the company.
MR: R. A. BECKETT, managing director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., will be leaving London on January 27 to visit Bombay, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. From Australia he will travel to Mexico and Montreal, and from Canada he will return to London at the end of March. In two world-wide tours during 1960, Mr. Beckett visited overseas companies of the Beclawat organisation and agencies in the Far East. MR. ALICK S. DICK, chairman and managing director of Standard-Triumph International, has been awarded the Royal Society of Arts' Benjamin Franklin Medal for 1961 "for his contribution to industrial progress in the motor car industry."
MR. K. D. Vick, London director of Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., left London on Monday to visit the oilfields in Libya. The main object of his visit is to investigate field conditions and the oilfield equipment at present in use and, if possible, advise on the typo of equipment most suited to the gruelling conditions in the Libyan Desert.
MR. M. A. HOLMES, chairman of the Tilling Board of Management, has been appointed chairman of the Road Operators' Safety Council for 1961. The following h-ave been appointed vicechairmen: MR. R. W. Butch (B.E.T.), MR. F. BRO014FIELD (P.V.O.A.), MR. B. H. HARBOUR (L.T.E.), ALDERMAN S. P. HILL (M.P.T.A.), MR. R. MACKENZIE (S.R.P.T.A.) and MR. A. J. TOWNSEND (T.G.W.U.). • MR. J. R. BICKERTON, chief chemist at the Hyde plant; MR. J. BIRCHENOUGH, works manager at the Hyde plant; MR. R, A. MILLER, divisional sales manager in the North London division; and MR. S. V. TILLEY, senior technical representative in the Midlands and South Wales, have been appointed to the board of Fletcher Miller, Ltd., makers of industrial degreasants, of Hyde, Cheshire. In addition, the board have approved the appointment of MR. D. W. HOWE as their Northern area manager, Engineering Division.