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MR. B. A. GAY has succeeded MR. V. V. THORPE as Bristol district manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. LESLIE W. WEST has been appointed sales director of the Weaver Manufacturing ..and Engineering Co., Ltd.
MR. J. S. EsiDALE has succeeded the late MR. E. CLEATHERO as manager of the Leeds depot of the Davies Tyre Co., Ltd.
MR. L. A. STEVENS has succeeded M. F. J. HALE, who has retired, as Croydon area sales representative of the tyre division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
Cot. R. E. M. PRATT, of the British Motor Corporation, Ltd., will be a member of the trade mission which is to leave London on January 29 to visit 'Egypt, the Sudan and Ethiopia.
MR. P. WYTHE has become deputy chairraan of Godfrey Davis,. Ltd. MR. R. I. SHIP ION and MR. C. A. REDFERN have been appointed joint managing directors, MR. GODFREY DAVIS remains chairman.
MR. B. F. CAuNT, managing director of Atkinson Lorries (1933), Ltd., has returned to this country after a visit lasting 10 weeks to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, where he met Atkinson buyers and distributors.
GEN. SIR DARIL WATSON, secretarygeneral Of the British Transport Commission, is to retire in May. He will be succeeded by MAJ.-GEN. LtEwEts-N .WANSBROUGH-JONES, who had been appointed Deputy Quartermaster General for next month, but has been permitted to retire from the Army to take up his post with the B.T.C.
MR. W. A. HAzi...Err, former managing director of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd., has returned to the United States, having spent 1.7* years in this country. He is to take up the position of vice-president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. He received a presentation from MR. A. S. BISHOP, the new managing director.
MR. G. E. H. HALL has been appointed a director of Sheepbridge Stokes, Ltd., and of British Van der Horst, Ltd. MR. R. GORE has become general manager of Sheepbridge Equipment, Ltd., and MR. C. HAND, general manager of the foundry division. MR. J. R. IONKINS has become methods engineer for the southern group of Sheepbridge companies, and MR. E. A. MACDONELL southern area sales representative for Automotive Engineering, Ltd. The manager of the London branch of Sheepbridge Engine Repairs, Ltd., is now MR. F. W. SIMMONS.
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MR. WILLIAM P. STOTE has been appointed a director of G; Beaton and Son, Ltd.
MR. J. GREEN has been appointed engineering assistant of Rochdale Transport Department.
MR. Roy CALVE has been appointed Reading [Berks.] district manager of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. The company have opened a new office in the town under the management of MR. P. J. GREENING.
ALL-DAY WAGE MEETING
AN all-day meeting on the claim of r-k. the unions for higher basic pay and .night-work rates was held on Tuesday by the employers' panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council. The purpose was to consider the case to be argued at the next meeting of the National Joint Industrial Council which is to be held on February 2.
GERMANS SEE B.R.S. DEPOTS QEVEN German transport experts, who are visiting Britain to discuss transport problems with chambers of commerce in this country, inspected general haulage and parcels depots of the South Eastern Division of British Road Services on Wednesday. Discussions are proceeding on whether a pooling of knowledge and a joint study of transport would be of value.
"SPEND ON RAIL TOO"
AORE money for roads should not LVJ be made available at the expense of further capital on modernizing the railways. This opinion is expressed by the council of Leeds Chamber of Commerce in their annual report. They also believe that because expenditure on a number of carefully selected road projects would bring enormous benefits to the country, an elaborate motorway system should not be constructed.
IN A LINE OR TWO Small and Parkes, Ltd., are to apply to capitalize 6250,000 of their reserves.
A new standard has been published by the British Standards Institution, 2 Park Street, London, W.1, on tubular box spanners. It costs 4s.
It is likely that Finland will import more vehicles th:s year than in 1954. Trade talks between British and Finnish representatives concluded in London last week.
All members of the staff of the southwestern branch of the Power Petroleum Co., Ltd., who were eligible to enter for safe-driving diplomas in 1952, 1953 and 1954, qualified for them.
When Mr. A. Miller and Mr. J. R. Corbett, of Ipswich, started their haulage business in 1946 they had two lorries. Today they ran 42 lorries and two coaches, it was stated at the firm's annual dinner, last week.
P. A. Carter and Sons, Ltd., 81 Christchurch Road, London, &EAR, have asked The Commercial Motor to make it clear that their rates for certain specialized haulage work are generally similar to those charged by British Road Services.