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LORD BURGHLEY has joined the. board of F1irrnid Industries, Ltd.
MR.. .I. W. IC INCHIN,, chief engineer of Girling, Ltd., has become a director of 'the company. •-,.
MR E. B. WILSON has been appornted assistant managing director of the E.N.V. Eneineering Co., Ltd.
• ,_, MR. riowAtto uormtrv. chairman of Skurray's, Ltd.; Swindon. has been elected president of the Motor Agents' Association ' — --
MR H EDRIDGE. M.B.E., cleansing superintendent of Chesterfield, has been re-elected president of the Institute of Public Cleansing.
MR. R A. FRYARS, experimental engineer. and MR. E. J. WICK ENOCH are among A.E.C. representatives at the New York Show.
Me. A. W. NASH has been re-elected chairman of the Wolverhampton Sub-, area of the Road Haulage Association. MR. A. &Anal is the new vicechairman.
• MR. A. DAY has been reappointed chairman and MR. E. ROGERS icechairman, of . the national sugar-beet committee of the Road Haulage Association.
MR... W. A. SMYTIf M.rhAVCH,t.., director and eine manager of Henry Meadows, Ltd., has been appointed managing director of W. G. Bagnall, Ltd., Stafford. .
MR. STANLEY S. DAWEs has been elected president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, in succession to MR S. G DAVIES, and will be installed at the annual general meeting in July.
MR. W. •WOODCOCK M .1.R,T.E., AssociNsT.T., has resigned from his position as Sheffield and Rotherham divisional transport manager of the East Midlands Gas Board, having acquired a motor business in the Isle of Wight.
MR. CHARLES A. LEIGH has ,been appointed fleet engineer to Lakeland Laundries, Ltd., and Will take up duties there on May I. His son, MR. L. B. LEIGH, who recently completed his ser-. vice with the Forces, will become fleet engineer of Aerowata, Ltd., Manchester, in his father's stead.
LORD LUCAS OF CHI LWORTH, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, will be the ,guestof _honour at the annual dinner :Alf tte Traders' Road Transport AssoWtion, atrGrnsvenor House. London. W.1, on April 25. LORD TEYNH AM , chairman of the Road Group in the House of Lords, and M AJ.GEN. G. N. RUSSELL. chairrnap of the Road Haulage Executive, will also be present.
A32 MR. A. H. BULL, export manager-of Oldham. and Son, Ltd., has recently returned from a world business tour.
MR. H. HUNT ER has been elected chairman of the Hull Area of the Road Haulage Association, with MR. F. Awscasi as vice-chairman. New Subarea chairmen are: MR. C. W. NICHOLLS, Ma. T. ROBINSON. Driffield; MR. J. Hrwsot4, How denM arket
• Weighl011; MR. M D. THACKRAY, Mahon; and MR. W. NewtaAm DAwsotc, Scarborough.
MR. JOHN E. EVAN COOK, J.P., joint managing director of Evan Cook's Packers, Ltd., and other companies in the Evan Cook group, has been elected to the new position of chairman of the
Institute of Packaging. In effect. he
succeeds MR. G. M. ASH WELL, who has been president since June, 1948. MR. E. H. DICKENS, M.B.E., has been elected vice-chairman and replaces MR. A. H. TYTHERLEIGH,'M.B.E., the retiring vicepresident.
MR. M AURICE PLAIT. M.ENG., M.I.MECH.E., has been elected chairman of the Luton centre of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile Division) One-time technical editor of our associated journal, "The Motor," he is executive engineer of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. The new chairman of the North-eastern centre is MR. L. H. CHALLIS, M.B.E., M.I.MEcti.E. He is Northern regional maintenance officer of the Ministry of Transport.
MR. W. R. BISHOP, formerly sales manager of Wellworthy Piston Rings, Ltd., one of the companies in the Associated Engineering Holdings, Ltd., Group, has taken up a new position as general sales manager of the following group of companies:—The Sheepbridee Stokes Centrifugal Castings Co.; Ltd., and British van der Horst, Ltd., of Chesterfield; the Sheepbridge Stokes Centrifugal Castings Co., Ltd., and Sintered Products, Ltd., of Sutton-inAshfield, and the Automotive Engineermg Co., Ltd.; Twickenham.