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Ma. H. W. ELEY, advertising manager of the Dunlop Rubber .Co., Ltd.,-is making good progress after an operation and expects to return to his
post in a few weeks. .
. R, C. ROBINSON has been appointed service manager of the, India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He has spent 25 years in the tyre trade and has been connected with the India make, in the London region, for the past 15 years.
J, M. CALDER, A,M.I.E.E., A.M.I.MECH.E., well known as manager of Reading Corporation Transport, will retire at the end of March. His successor is. to be MR. W. M. LITTLE, B.Sc., A.M.INsr.E., at present manager and engineer of St. I felens Corporation Transport.
Ma. HAROLD MAYO, M.B.E., A.M.INsr.T., chief assistant to Mr. J. H. Stirk, the Regional Transport Commissioner, North Midland Region, has been appointed an Assistant Director of Sea Transport at M.O.W.T, headquarters, London. Mr. Mayo has been in Nottingham about seven years and recently received the M.I3.E.
MR. G. W. P. WILLIAMS, who, for the past four years, has been with the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., in connection with the design and layout of W.D.vehicle bodies, has joined the staff of Jeffreys Commercial 'Motors (Swansea), Ltd., Neath Road, Swansea, as designer-engineer. While . with the . Midland " Red " Mr. Williams was concerned with design and inspection,. he has also been, with Brush Coachwork, Ltd.,. where he ,,.?s engaged on the design. and layout of 'singleand double-deck :bodies and with T. Harrington, Ltd. . He, won the first prize and silver medal for bus design in the I.B.C.A.M. competition of 1938.
MR. ARTHUR WOOD, of Barnsley, traffic superintendent of the Yorkshire Traction Co., is about to retire after 42 years' service with the company. He took over his .present position in 1919. His successor is MR. RONALD COUTTS, former manager of the old Dearne District Light Railway, who. has been assistant traffic superintendent to the Yorkshire Traction Co. since 1935.
ALDERMAN WALTER BRADLEY, j.p., Mayor of Bolton and chairman of the Bolton Corporation Transport Committee, was, at the annual meeting, on February 8, of the National Joint Industrial Council for, the Road Passenger Transport Industry, elected chairman for 1943, in succession to MR. A. MONK, J.P. MR, F. COYLE, a national officer of the T.G.W.U., was elected vice-chairman. Alderman Bradley, who is a member of the Council, and a past-president of the M.P.T.A., had occupied this position previously, from January, 1943, to February, 1944, when he proposed that Mr. A. Monk should become chairman because the latter would' be retiring from trade-union service early in 1945.
MRS. CHRISTINE-R. TAYLOR, prospective Comnion Wealth Parliamentary candidate for the Warwick-Leamington Division, has packed much experience
into her 48 years. After working in the machinery, refrigerator and gramophone industries, she was occupied during the war of 1914-18 in the reception of raw materials and finished goods, their passage through the factory and their dispatch, for a concern manufacturing essential fitments for transport purposes. Later, she became London secretary to a freight agency, but since 1927 has been engaged in
Press work. She is chairman of the Wothen's Traffic Club of Great Britain, national chairman of the Women for 11-,,tminster Movement, is on the Parliamentary Committee of the National Council of Women, and a member of the Women's Engineering Society.