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Mr. F. G. Bristow, F.C.I.S., 11.Inst.T., the general secretary tof the Commercial Motor Users Association, has, as a member of Westminster City Council, recently been elected chairman of the St. James's Dwellings Special Committee, vice-chairman of the Highways Committee, and vice-chairman of the Traffic and Public Lighting Committee.
Mr. J. Albert Thomson, J.P., has succeeded Sir George Beharrell, D.S.O., as president of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund, he being the first Scotsman to occupy the position. As is well known, Mr. Thomson is the chief of Brown Brothers, Ltd.
Colonel J. Sealy-Clarke has been reappointed honorary treasurer, and Mr. F. Percy Low honorary solicitor to the Fund for the 26th year.
We reproduce on this page a portrait of Mr. Ebenezer Healey, who is about to retire from the Dunlop organization. Since 1927 he has been in charge of the company's rubber-thread business in Leicester. For more than 32 years he was associated with W. and A. Bates, Ltd., joining the company as head of the order department and, at the time of its fusion with the Dunlop organization, occupying the position of managing director.
After the merger, Mr. Healey became general sales manager at Fort Dunlop and, as a result of the growth of the rubber-thread business at Leicester, he has devoted the whole of• his time since 1927 to thread sales and has visited some of the company's foreign markets. As chairman for two years of the general committee of the India Rubber Manufacturers' Association, he accomplished much useful work.
Mr. E. McDowell, for' many years general manager of F. D. Cowieson and Co., of Glasgow, has, we learn, resigned that position to take up the general managership of the old-established concern of R. Y. Pickering and Co., Ltd., of Wishaw, Lanarkshire, which makes forgings, drop stampings and castings for the motor trade and builds bus bodies.