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MR. TREVOR GUY, service director of Guy Motors, Ltd., is engaged on a sixweeks' tour of the Far East.
MR. GEORGE KENNING, chairman and managing director of Kennings, Ltd., is making satisfactory progress after a major operation.
DR. GEORG TUOENDHAT has relinquished his Managing directorship of Manchester Oil Refinery (Holdings), Ltd., but remains on the board.
MR. H. J. SATCHWELL, sales and supplies manager of the Willenhall Motor .Radiator Co., Ltd., will retire at the end of the year after 52 years in the motor trade.
MR. T. V. Woons, who recently joined the executive staff of the British .Electric Traction Co., Ltd., is being appointed to the hoards of a number of associated companies.
MR. GORDON J. ATKINS, chief executive for footwear and general sales of Pirelli, Ltd., is. retiring. He joined the company as advertising manager in 1929
and kept this pi:4am until 1954.
MR. G. H. ARMITAGE, principal assistant .engineer with Din-ham County Council, has been appointed to the newly created post of 'traffic engineer with Newcastle on Tyne Corporation. His duties will include dealing with traffic congestion.
MR, HUBERT A. F. NTDA, automotive technical adviser_ to transport operators and motor manufacturers in the north, has become consumer trade manager for the North West Division of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd. He is succeeded by MR. B. E. Huatuv.: MR. PHILIP N. BUCKMINSTER has been elected Managing director of Chrysler International S.A. He will be responsible for the marketing and manufacturing of Chrysler Vehicles and other products outside the United States and Canada, and will be based in Geneva.
Ma. H. B. MACKENZIE has become sales manager of the replacemett division of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He will be assisted by five regional sales managers—South, MR. I. H. HAYMAN; West,, MR. F. J. N. TAYLOR; Midlands, MR. L. A. MCCONNALL; N911.11, Mr. J. A. JOHNSON; Scotland and Northern Ireland, MR. W G. NAISMITH.
MR. L. P. CRONK, district superintendent:at the Lutrin:(Chathain) depot of Maidstone and-----District Motor Services, Ltd., is retiring, and administration in the Medway -towns is to be revised. MR. J. A. H. SNELL, Gillingham Depot superintendent, willi extend his responsibilities to include Luton, with the Post of Medway Towns Area district superintendent. His assistant will be MR. A. J. H. BAKER. . MR. A. L. MORRISON has been appointed finance director of the Dunlop company in Germany.
MR. A. , W. KILLEEN has been appointed Leeds branch manager of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., succeeding MR. A.E. HEELEY.
MR. P. R. PAC.KHAM has been appointed a director of A. Packham and Co., Ltd., hauliers, Highbury Grove, London, N.5, and of Griffin Brothers (Highbury), Ltd.
MR. GEORGE WHITWELL HARPER has been appointed managing director of T.G.B. Motors, Ltd., Clitheroe, Lanes. MR. J. HARPER, SNR., has become governing director.
MR. J. S. LEES, formerly passenger vehicle sales manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been appointed home sales manager for Leyland and Albion goods and passenger vehicles.
MR. J. M. THOMPSON has become deputy chairman and joint managing director of Harry Ferguson (Motors), Ltd., Belfast, and MR. HUGH C. REID is appointed joint managing director.
MR. J. O. RYMER, of the Ministry of Transport's sea transport branch, has been appointed clerk to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. He had traffic experience during the war as a district transport officer *in the EasternRegion.
Ma. G. E. ROBERTS, manager of the Eastern Division of the National Benzole Co., Ltd., is to retire at the end of this month. He joined the company in 1922. He will be succeeded by MR. W. S. WESTBROOK, assistant manager of the division since 1949.
RAILWAYS' DIFFICULTIES
DIFFICULT1ES being experienced by the railways were described to European Ministers of Transport by Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport Commission, in London last week. Steel production had fallen and large quantities of coal were being stocked, and these traffics were the railways' very bread of life.
Although the situation might be temporary, the railways had no resources to cushion themselves against losses which were "hurting a lot."
SCULPTURE BY ROAD
THIS week a granite sculpture, weighing 1 10 tons, was due to be carried from near Falmouth to Western Avenue, Ealing, where a new office building is being erected for the Taylor Woodrow concern. The contractors were T. Hallett, Ltd., 171 Cricklewood Broadway, London, N.W.2, who employed an articulated low-loader.
The sculpture was 18 ft. long. 7 ft. high and 4 ft. wide, and was described as the largest of its kind since the days of ancient Egypt.