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Mr. H. T. H. Dean has been appointed acting branch manager of Mercantile Credit Co., Ltd., in Edinburgh.
Mr. D. G. Houghton, sales director of the Gardner organization, accompanied by Mr. Paul Gardner was leaving the U.K. today for a business tour of Greece and Near East and Middle East countries.
Mr. J. M. Barr has been appointed chairman and managing director of Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd. Sir G. W. Martin has been appointed deputy chairman and Mr. S. A. Barr, deputy managing director.
Councillor James Bennett, a road haulage agent, retained Labour's seat in the Parliamentary by-election in the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow last week. His Conservative opponent was Councillor Malcolm McNeil, a Glasgow road haulage contractor.
A director of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., since 1955, Mr. F. V. Barker is resigning from the board at the end of November on his retirement from the company. He has been with Vauxhall since 1921, rising over the years from tool-room foreman to director of production engineering.
Mr. P. C. Wickens, at present chief engineer of The South Wales -Transport Company, Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of the Western Welsh Omnibus. Company, Ltd., in succession to Mr. F. A. Mason, who has 'been appointed
general manager of The Rhondda Trans port Company, Ltd.
Mr. W. Lang, chief engineer of Greenslades Tours, Ltd., of Exeter, has retired after 40 years with the concern. At a dinner in his honour, presentations were made to him on behalf of the company and the staff. His place .as chief engineer is taken by Mr. T. Maria, who has been assistant engineer for three years.
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Mr. T. W. Tillson, chief engineer to Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., has been elected technical director of the company.
Mr. Derek Hormel has been appointed to the newly created position of marketing manager of the Dunlop tyre division at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham.
Maj.-Gen. J. S. Crawford, formerly a director of Guy Motors, Ltd., has been elected an honorary member of the British Transport Vehicle Manufacturers' Association.
Mr. Ronald Cox, general manager and engineer of Rochdale Corporation Transport, has been appointed general manager of Bournemouth Corporation Transport Department He will succeed Mr. W. D. Reakes, whose retirement is to take place on February 28 next.
Mr. J. E. Miles has been appointed a director of J. Gliksten and Son (Hardwoods), Ltd. His successor as representative for hardwoods and plywood in the Eastern Counties, will be Mr. Stanley Bowles, at present -a London representative. Mr. George Moore succeeds Mr. Bowles in London. Mr. K. T. Saxton, who is included among recent appointments to the beard of Blundell, •Spence and Co., Ltd,, is to have overall responsibility for the Industrial Division and will be located at Slough. Also appointed to the board is Mr. A. L. Small, who has specialized in promoting transport finishes; his appointment emphasizes the growing importance of this side of the company's
business. •
Mr. Geoffrey Wilson, M.P. for Truro, has retained the chairmanship of the Conservative Party Transport Committee in the Commons for a further session. The number of vice-chairmen of the committee is to be increased to two and Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke (Twickenham) and Wing-Commander R. G. Grant-Ferris (Nantwich) have been promoted from their former appointments as joint hon. secretaries.
Mr. F. H. Tate has been elected deputy chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce in succession to Mr. R. L. Wills, who has resigned owing to his heavy commitments as a member of the Rochdale Committee. Mr. P. S. Henman has been elected to fill the office of treasurer vacated by Mr. Tate. Mr. Tate is a managing director of Tate and Lyle, Ltd., chairman of Fisher and Stacey. Ltd., Pease Transport, Ltd., Silver Roadways, Ltd., and director of John Walker and Co. (Sugar Refiners), Ltd.; Silvertown Services, Ltd., Tate and Lyle Investments, Ltd., and Greenock Bulk Handling Co., Ltd. Mr. Henman is chairman of the Transport Development Group, Ltd., the Square Grip Reinforcement Co. (London), Ltd., and a director of Temperance Permanent Building Society.