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'Ma. E. L. ELLIOT and MR. P. B. LAKE have been appointed directors of the National Steel Foundry (1914), Ltd.
MR. G. M. W1LLIM0NT has been appointed general manager of David Robinson, Ltd., Austin distributors in Bedford.
MR. R. A. Bea(Err, managing director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., is visiting customers and agents in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
MR. R. C. BARKER, deputy chief traffic superintendent of Halifax Transport Department has been appointed chief assistant of the Tees-Side Railless Traction Board.
MR. N. GARRATT, of. Fodens, Ltd., who, as reported last week, has been granted a Henry Spurrier Memorial Scholarship by the Council of the Insti_We of Transport, is to study for a B.Sc. (Economics) degree at Southampton University.
MR. PETER ALL1ST0N has been appointed commercial manager of F. Perkins (Canada), Ltd. He was formerly acting general manager of the Perkins company in Australia. He joined the organization in 1952 from the Ford Motor Co., Ltd.
MR. R. W. HANCOCK, of Messrs. James Hancock, Manchester, won the Harold Firth award in the concours d'elegance for members' cars held during the Road Haulage Association's conference at Harrogate last week. 1-le entered a 1937 Bentley.
MR. L. M. PARKER, chief engineer of the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of the Northern General Transport Co.,.Ltd., in succession 10 MR. JAMES DAWSON, who is retiring. Mr. Parker joined the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., 10 years ago as works
engineer. In 1946 he became chief engineer of S.W.T.
MR. A. B. BELL has been appointed general line representative in Northumberland for The Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd. MR, E. P. Cool( has been appointed general line representative in Co. Durham, and MR. F. TENNANT has taken up a similar appointment in north-west Derbyshire and west Lancashire (excluding Manchester and Burnley).
MR. W. L. DaummoiNto, general sales manager of Guy Motors, Ltd., has returned to England after a two months' tour of Australia, New Zealand and the Far East. In Australia, he visited cities and towns in every state except Queensland, and his Far Eastern itinerary embraced Hong Kong, Singapore. Ceylon and Pakistan.
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MR. W. K. G. ALLEN, chairman and joint managing director of W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd., has been elected president of the British Engineers' Association. MR. E. W. THOMPSON, chairman and a managing director of John Thompson, Ltd., is vice-president. The retiring president, MR. H. S. BROOM, joint managing director of Broom and Wade, Ltd., is honorary treasurer.
MR. R. EmmEasoN, who was Scottish area manager for Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., has become south-western area manager. MR. W. T. BAILEY has moved from Bristol to succeed Mr. Emmerson in Scotland. MR. J. F. FERGUSON, export manager, returned recently from a visit to British East Africa. During his return journey he visited Cairo.
MR. J. L. BREEZE, A.M.I.MECH.E., has been promoted to the grade of senior engineer (transport), New Scotland Yard, to succeed Col. H. S. Adams, M.B.E., D.S.C., who retired two years ago. He is in charge, under MR. A. A. LUMSDE.N COLLIS, chief engineer, of the transport engineering and civilian operating arrangements working from headquarters, Mr. Breeze joined the Yard in December. 1935, after serving an apprenticeship with Austin, which was followed by an Austin staff appointment. Later he was in the inspection department of Rover.
INQUIRY INTO WORKERS' SERVICES
DIFFICULTIES of carrying workers between their homes and places of employment on Tees-side are to be discussed by a working party appointed at Middlesbrough, last week, by a conference of, the Tees-side Industrial Development Board.
A spokesman at the conference suggested the formation of a central bus pool by both municipal and company bus undertakings.
Mr. C. E. Parr, clerk to the Tees-Side Railless Traction Board, said that workers' specials were losing the Board about £1,000 each.