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Mr. Erie Kay, formerly technical assistant (executive) to the chief engineer, Leyland Motors Ltd., has been appointed technical manager (prototype) and is now responsible for the engineering division prototype programme.
Mr. Leonard A. Raynor, who joined Sheffield City Transport 50 years ago as a bodymaker's apprentice, has recently retired as body superintendent. For the past 26 years he has been in charge of the bodywork for the undertaking's fleet. Mr. Raynor was invited to the luncheon which followed last month's meeting of the MPTA, Yorkshire area D, when a tribute was paid to his loyal service.
Mr. H. S. Butterworth has been appointed a director of Castro] Industrial Ltd. and general manager of Castrol's industrial division.
Mr. F. B. S. Harnby has joined the board of the Appleyard Group Ltd. as marketing director. Aged 40, Mr. Hamby has spent the past four years as a senior marketing executive of the British Motor Corporation Ltd. and previously held a number of sales appointments with the Ford Motor Co. Ltd.
Mr. H. E. Tudor has been appointed managing director of John Thompson Pressings Ltd., of Wolverhampton, consequent on Mr. C. R. Thompson relinquishing this position to devote more time as a main board director of the John Thompson Group. Mr. Tudor has also been appointed to the main board. Mr. R. W. Peace returns to the company as general manager after three years of managing another group subsidiary.
Mr. Cyril G. Charlish has joined the board of Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd. as sales director. Mr. Charlish joined the company in 1934 as a sales representative and became general sales manager in March, 1965.
Following a reorganization in the public relations and publicity division of Simms Motor Units Ltd., Mr. W. R. Haywood, formerly manager, is now known as public relations officer. The division is now responsible for all public relations matters within Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation Ltd. Mr. D. Redfaarn, controller of technical publications, is responsible for advertising and technical publications, while Mr. D. Wood, assistant publicity manager, handles all exhibition and creative work. Mrs. V. Wickrodt, of Simms Motor Units (International) Ltd., has joined the public relations division to organize visits and overseas travel arrangements.
Mr. P. J. Twyman is now operating with Mr. Bill Mather as Speedwell Gear Case Co. Ltd. representative in the south east. As recorded briefly last week, Mr. Christopher David Foster has been appointed director general of economic planning at the Ministry of Transport. His appointment falls into the pattern of the reorganization announced last September, when new emphasis was placed on transport research within the department. Mr. Foster, who is 35, read History and Economics at Cambridge and was later a research fellow in Economics at Pennsylvania University. Between 1957 and 1964 he held several research fellowships in the UK and since October, 1964, he has led a Ministry-sponsored team at the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics, investigating urban transport problems. Last year he was given leave to work part-time as senior economic adviser in the Department of Economic Affairs. He has written widely on transport investment, cost benefit analysis and road pricing.
Mr. L. W. Arnold, district traffic superintendent, Nottingham, of Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd., has retired after 51 years in the omnibus industry. Mr. Arnold started in the operating department of the London General Omnibus Co. in 1914 and had been with Trent at Nottingham since 1946. He has been succeeded by Mr. D. Wilson, who was the company's assistant district traffic superintendent at Derby.
Mr. Brian Stacey, director and chief engineer of Dennis Brothers Ltd., left last weekend for the United States and Canada. After attending the Conference of The Society of Automotive Engineers and making various visits in the Detroit area, he will travel to Indiana. From the USA he will go on to Canada, where he will see manufacturers and operators of the latest snow-clearing equipment. He will also visit the Dennis distributors in Montreal. In both countries he will observe the constructional and -operational differences between British and transatlantic systems of fire fighting and refuse collection.
Representatives of the Scottish section of the Transport and General Workers' Union said farewell to Mr. Wm. Sboles, their regional secretary this week. Mr. Sholes, who was appointed Scottish secretary in 1958, was before that group secretary of the commercial transport section covering road haulage members' interests in Scotland. He has left to take up a Government post and is succeeded by Mr. Raymond Macdonald, who, for the past three years, has been group secretary of the Union's clerical and administrative division.
Mr. R. G. Heyworth has been appointed commercial executive (equipment) of V. L. Churchill and Co. Ltd. Prior to joining the company on January 3, Mr. Heyworth was general sales manager of Suntester Ltd.
Yorkshire loT Dinner: All past-chairmen of the 'Yorkshire sectitin of the Institute of Transport are to be invited as guests to the section's annual dinner to be held at the Griffin Hotel, Leeds, on March 11. Other guests will include Mr. A. R. Dunbar, the IoT president, and Sir Roger Stevens, vies-chancellor of Leeds University, where a centre of transport studies is being set up.