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24th April 1959, Page 38
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MR, JOHN C. HANNA, JNR., general manager of C. R. Averill, Ltd., has become a director.'

MR. S. H. LEAKE has been reappointed a part-time member of the London Transport Executive until 1962.

Ma. A. G. WILSON, managing director of Self-Changing Gears, Ltd., is to go on a world-wide sales promotion tour.

MR. W. H. VINE has been elected chairman of the Yorkshire section of the Institute of Transport. Vice-chairmen are MR.

C. T. HUMPIDGE, MR. J. T. CHADWICK and MR. T. THORNTON. MR. A. STONE is secretary.

MR. T. W. JACKSON has succeeded MR. J. W. Et.Lis as chairman of the national council of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses. Vicechairmen are MR. R. W. TREE and MR.

D. K. ARCHBOLD.

MR. A. A. 1. WATSON has been elected chairman for the eighth successive year of the Devon and Cornwall Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. MR. W. R. WEsr and MR. E. M. SHAW are vice-chairmen.

MR, W. HOBBS has retired from the position of joint secretary of the British Motor Corporation, and has been succeeded by MR. E. PRICE. Mr. Hobbs will remain a director of B.M.C. and Morris Motors, Ltd. Mr. Price. will continue as deputy chairman of Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd.

MR. H. A. RICH is to become manager of the new north-west retail division of Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.. and Ma. C. B. COTTERELL is IO succeed MR. W. J. FRIER, who retires shortly, as northern retail manager, following the announcement by the company of the construction of a new ocean-fed terminal at Ellesmere Port. MR. G. S. ORR has succeeded MR. A. TODD as Scottish divisional manager for the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd. He became district manager with the northern retail division last May

B4 Loan Rooms, chairman of the Dollar Exports Council, is touring the U.S.A., Canada and the Caribbean.

MR. J. MACKLE has been elected president of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association, with MR. R. MACKENZIE as vice-president.

MR. H. A. DAY, chairman of H. Day and Sons, Ltd., removers, London, S.E.27, has been elected chairman of West Norwood Chamber of Commerce.

MR. J. A. BARKE has been appointed director of the product division of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., and MR. H. H. JEFFRIES is now director of manufacture.

MR., A. F. WarroN has been appointed area manager of British Road Services' London parcels area as from May 18. MR. N. J. KEVAN is now headquarters operations officer of parcels.

MR. G. COLLIN HEPWORTH has relinquished his directorship of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., and its subsidiaries to join the board. OfAssociated Engineering, Ltd., and 'become managing. director of the engine component division. MR. JACK L. HEPWORTH, Who was previously joint managing director, now takes over as chairman and sole managing director of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., and subsidiaries.

DEATH OF MR. A. P. CHALKLEY

WE deeply regret to announce the death WV last Sundayof MR. A. P. CHALKLEY, editorial director of Temple Press Limited. He had edited The Motor Ship since 1920, when he founded it. He was also editor of The Motor Boat and , Yachting from 1912 to 1955, and of The Oil Engine and Gas Turbine from 1933, when he founded it, until 1945. He was 73.

Mr. Chalkley had spent his life furthering with great success the development and use of the internal-combustion engine, especially the Diesel. in the early days of this type of engine he collaborated for some time with Dr. Rudolph Diesel in Munich.


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