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MR. 0. C. POWER, J .P lel .INST.T., has been re-elected chairman of the Birmingham Horse and Motor Vehicle Owners' Association for the 28th year in succession, Ma. W. E. ROOTES has been elected president of the Society of Motor Ma.nufacturers and Traders for 1939-40, in succession to Lord Kenilwortb, C.B.E.
MR. J. ALBERT THOMSON, LL . D. , J .P . is re-elected deputy president, and Me. H. SHANKLAND and CAPT . A. C. R. WAITE, MC., have been elected vicepresidents. Mr. Rootes is chairman and headof the group of companies which includes the Comrner, Karrier and Sunbeam concerns. Mr. Thomson is managing director of Brown Brothers, Ltd., and of Thomson and Brown Brothers, Ltd., and is associated with many other companies in the motor industry.Mr. Shankland is director of National Services, Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., and the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.; he has spent 42
years in the tyre industry. Capt. Waite is director and London manager of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd.,
MR. G. DOORAKKERS , formerly of the Daimler concern of Coventry, and the Moss Gear Co., Ltd., of Birmingham, has recently been appointed sales manager of British van der Horst, Ltd., Sheepbridge Works, Chesterfield.
MR. H. BELL THOMPSON, managing director of Sternal, Ltd., the wellknown lubricant concern, has been chosen, for the 11th year in succession, to represent the lubricating-oil trade of Great Britain on the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries.
MR. H. J. ASHBY, sales manager of the general sales division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., is moving his headquarters from Birmingham to London and expects to be at Albany Street within the next few weeks. MR. E. Muctreee continues as London manager.
MR. MICHAEL CORNER has severed his connection with Appleyard of Leeds, Ltd., Central Yorkshire distributor of Morris-Commercial products, after acting for 16 years in the capacity of sales manager of the commercialvehicle department. He wishes to obtain an engagement with a commercial-vehicle manufacturer or large distributor on the sales side.
MR. G. KEITH DREW. director of Delco-Remy and Hyatt, .Ltd., has been elected to the council of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. He joined the Delco concern 12 years ago, and was made sales manager five years later. After seven years with the company, be was appointed general sales manager and, last year, v. as made director in charge of sales.
MR. ROBERT TAYLOR, secretary of the Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association, is publishing a diary recording his impressions during his Visit to Russia, last year. Mr. Taylor was chairman of the British and South African trade-union delegations Which went to Soviet Russia. Since his return in December, he has given 25 illustrated lectures, on Russia and its people, in all parts of Scotland.
MR. J. H. HOLDER,, whose portrait. appears on this page, has been a member of the salts staff of F. Perkins, Ltd., of Peterborough, since the early days of the company. He has been most successful in the " diesenzation " movement in the north, and has now been appointed northern area sales manager of the company. He has been associated with various concerns in connection with oil-en gilled vehicles from the time that such machines were first used in this country: He served his apprenticeship with the Garrett concern at Leiston, and was a Pilot-lieutenant in th R.A.F. during the late war. He takes over his new duties on May 1.