Following the merger between the Leyland Motors Group and Associated

21st September 1962, Page 246

21st September 1962

Page 246

Page 246, 21st September 1962 — Following the merger between the Leyland Motors Group and Associated

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CommercialVehicles. Ltd., the Leyland chairman and managing director, Sir Henry Spurner, has joined the board of A.C.V., together with Mr. Stanley Markland, deputy managing director, and Mr. Donald Stokes, sales director. Lord Brabazon, A.C.V. chairman, and Sir William Black, managing director, have been appointed to the board of Leyland Motors, Ltd.

Captain J. Douglas, previously director and manager of Small and Parkes (Ireland), Ltd., has been • appointed .fulltime director of a new company, Birfield (Ireland), Ltd. On the bOard will be Mr. H. E. Hill (chairman); Captain J. Douglas, Mr. K. W. Evans, Mr. J. N. Ross and Mr. K. Walker. Mr. Evans is managing director of Hardy Spicer, Ltd., Mr. Walker is joint managing director of Laycock Engineering, Ltd., and Mr. Ross is a solicitor practising in Dublin.

Formerly general works manager of Fort Dunlop, Mr. Norman Mould has been made responsible for all Dunlop tyre production in the U.K. He will hold the title of works director, tyre division, and his appointment is part of a largescale programme of rationalization designed to meet the ch'allenge of increasingly competitive markets. Mr.

• W. Holyoak becomes general works manager at Fort Dunlop.

Mr. R. A. Beckett has been appointed chairman of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., as from September 1. 1962, in succession to Mr. Joseph E. Beckett, founder of the company. Mr. R. A. Beckett will also retain his present managing directorship of the company and Mr. J. E. Beckett will still remain a member of the board of directors.

Mr. W. S. Ault, previously manager. technical department, has been appointed assistant general manager of retail sales. Shell-Mex and B.F., Ltd. He is a vicepresident of the. Institute of Petroleum. Mr. G. Richardson, previously manager, industrial fuels department, has been appointed assistant general manager, Operations, Shell-Mex and B.13.. Ltd.

It has been announced that, in view of the growing interest in the products of Weston Works (Birmingham), Ltd., in the wider field of industrial hydraulics, a special technical sales representative, Mr. J. B. Revell, has been appointed for the south of England.

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Mr. A. B. B. Valentine, chairman of London Transport, left London last Friday for a series of visits to transport undertakings in Canada and the United States. Among the cities he will visit are Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and New York.

Mr. C. Biggs has been appointed manager of the tyre group, for Brown Brothers, Ltd., succeeding the late Mr. C. G. Armstrong. Now ranking as an assistant general manager of the company, Mr. Biggs was previously sales promotion manager (tyres), and before that, tyre manager at Brown Brothers, Ltd., Acton branch.

• Mr. A. J. Lansdown has been appointed to the sales force of the new team which is handling the old-established West Country coachbulding firm of Miles Tankers—now a division of Armstrong Whitworth Equipment, of Hucclecote, Gloucester. The project manager of the division is Mr. Ken Hand.

Mr. R. Graham has been appointed by Aerostyle. Ltd., of Acton, to represent them in Yorkshire for sales of wet and dry paint spray booths, spray guns, compressors and other equipment manufactured in their works. Mr. Graham is taking over part of the territory previously covered by Mr. C. Constant, who has represented Aerostyle. Ltd., since 1954 and is at present superVising their northern representatives.

Mr. J. A. Middleton-Joy will retire from the chairmanship of Edward Joy and Sons. Ltd.. on October 1; but will remain on the 'board as a director. The new chairman will be Mr. A. C. F. Warner, and Mr. J. M. Warner will be sole managing director.

Mr. R. J. Edwards has been appointed group works manager of the Evode Group of Companies, Stafford. He was previously general works manager of The Tayside Floor Cloth and Linoleum Co., Newburgh. Fife, and successively, development chemist, works manager and development manager of British Enka, Ltd.. Aintree, Mr. Alfred Roberts, who has served as an assistant general secretary of the National Union of Vehicle Builders for the past 10 years, has now, been elected general secretary of the union; he replaces Mr. F. S. Winchester who retired on September 15 at the age of 65. Mr. R. C. Allen, deputy to managin director of Perkins Engines, Ltd., wh was general sates manager of the Perkin Group during its important period c growth following World War II, has bee given a .special advisory assignment i South America. Mr. Allen, who ha recently been acting in a eonsultativ capacity at Peterborough, will be base. with Motores Perkins-S.A., of Sao Panic 'the company's subsidiary in Brazil. H will assist in the organization an development of the Brazilian company' marketing and sales activities.

Astley announce the appointment c Mr. R. K. F. McInnes as .manager of thci Leeds Branch.

Temple Press in the Midlands TN order to strengthen their editoria 1 representation in the Midlands, Tempi Press, Ltd., publishers of The Commercit Motor, are to redeploy their Coventry an Birmingham staff. Mr. Harold •( Hastings,.at present stationed at Coven tr) is to become midland editor, Tempt Press Specialist Journals, and will mov to the Birmingham office, Bayliss Hous( Hurst Street, at the end of this montt The office.at 50 Hertford Street, Coventr) will be closed. Mr. P. A. C. Brockingto continues as Midland editorial represents tive of The Commercial Motor.

Obituary •

WE regret to record the 'deaths of Mt P. S. Gaddass, Mr. W. G. Hunt aril Mr. J. Pringle, Mr. Gaddass, who was 64,. was a eierl in the Northern Traffic Area courts an was a popular and helpful man know to hundreds of Northern haulien Tributes were paid to him in Newcastl upon Tyne last week by Mr. G. W Duncan, Northern Deputy Licensin Authority, and by legal representatives o transport operators.

Mr. Hunt, who was 57, was superir tending engineer, mechanical, at th Ministry of Transport. He joined th Ministry in 1931 after early service wit Leyland Motors, Ltd. He was awarde the O.B.E. in 1461.

Mr. Pringle, principal in the haulag concern of James Pringle and Sor Bridgend, Innerleithen, Peebles; die' suddenly last weelc. . ,