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SIR LEONARD BROWETT has succeeded SIR ARIHUR ROBINSON as a director of Super Oil Seals and Gaskets, Ltd.
MR. G. H. F. PARKES, eider son of the managing director of Small and Parkes, Ltd.. has been appointed a director of the company.
MR H. V STAMMERS D.F.C., has been appointed a deputy member for England and Wales of the Road and Rail Appeal Tribunal. He is managing director of the British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.
MR. S. A. C. H AYNES has been appointed advertising manager of the Austin Motor Co.. Ltd., and its subsidiaries. Mr. Haynes was previously with the Nuffield Organisation, and for
• a eurnbg of years was responsible for Morris-Commercial-. adyertising and sales promotion.
MR. G. G. LUCAS, manager of the Argentine branch of John L Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., has left London for Buenos Aires, and MR. W DANDRIDGE, Thornyeroft representative in South Africa, is returning to Johannesburg after attending conferences in this country.
MR. L. J. HAINES succeeds MR. F. W. BEITS as Pirelli representative for Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Huntingdon. Mr. Betts is leaving the organization to take up an overseas appointment. Additional representation is being provided in Birmingham by the engagement of MR. S. B. MINERS.
MR. J. S. LEES, A.M.I.Mech.E., has taken up the important post, which has been vacant for several months, of divisional manager in Scotland for A.E.C.. Ltd. A former student apprentice at the A.E.C. Southall factory, Mr. Lees has held a number of posts in the civil and military trans
port world. MR. R. NETTLESH1 11' becomes A.E.C. area representative in Yorkshire. He has been engaged on commercial-vehicle sales for some 21 years. MR. V. G. LAcav has joined the Manchester depot of Wilmot-Breeden, Ltd., as technical representative, having come to the company from G. D. Peters, Ltd.
MR. R. LEFEVRE, general manager of Bury Corporation Transport Department, has been elected honorary secretary of the North Western Centre, Automobile Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in succession to MR. G. W. Rona.
MR. N. G. BASSETT SMITH, compositions manager of Dunlop Special Products, has been appointed manager of the flexible plastics division. in addition to his present post. Heewdll have charge of the supply of flexible "" plastic sheetings used for upholstery by coachbuilders and vehicle manufacturers.
Ma. D. F. W. McNata.,• service manager of F. Perkins. Ltd., has left England for Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda to establish full service facilities for Perkins oil engines employed by the Overseas Food Corporation in the Groundnuts Scheme. While in Africa Mr. McNair expects to visit the main South African centres.
CAPT. K. WILKINSON, Who for the past six years has been sales manager for Q Vehicles, Ltd., is leaving the electric-vehicle business to take up the position of sales manager of the Government sponsored Educational Foundation for Visual Aids. He will be responsible for the encouragement of the distribution of films and other visual aids to all national educational authorities.
MR. R. E. Cox, deputy manager of I3olton Corporation Transport Department, has been appointed general manager of St. Helens Corporation Transport Department in succession to Mr. G. W. Robb who, as announced in 'The Commercial Motor" of July 15, will be leaving St. Helens to take up the position of general manager to the Cape Electric Tramways Co., Ltd.
MR. GEORGE J. WEST a member of he Road Haulage Association's head office staff, has been appointed secretary of the employers' panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council. Mr. Weg, who originally came to Associated Road Operators in 1937, returned to the
R.H.A. after serving in the Forces.. •
MR. GORDON L. JACKSON, director and general manager of Chaseside. Engineering Co., Ltd., and his technical assistant, MR. JAMES LovE, are making an intensive tour of Canada to sell the
Chaseside -cubic yd. mechanical shovel. They " are travelling in an
'articulated lorry, which carries a demonstration shovel and a small car for use in cities. Thoir tour is expected to occupy 40-45 days and to cover 4,500 miles. MR. GEORGE H. JACKSON. managing director and father of Mr. Gordon Jackson, evolved the shovel 25 years ago. More than 5,000 of these Mta. F. J. HURN, director and general manager of Smith Motor Accessories, Ltd., has taken over the duties of MR. C. W. NICHOLS, on the latter's retirement from his position as sales director, and now becomes responsible for the whole of the Motor Accessory Division. He has been with the company for 30 years, and was appointed director and general manager in 1944. To allow him more scope and time for his additional responsibilities, the general day-to-day administration and management of the commercial and sales activities of th's Division, apart from contract business, have been passed to MR. S. E. BURLINGTON, Who is also a director. Another change is that MR. P. BLAIR, previously sales manager of the associated company, Radiomobile, Ltd, becomes its general manager. M1'.. Nichols started with the concern in 1901, and a few pioneers may remember his visits, about 1906, to agents and garages in a three-cylinder Panhard with fiat canopy roof and batteries of instruments and accessories. He was untiring in his efforts and will be greatly missed in the industry, but the company will still have the benefit of his advice.