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MR. J. C. GARDINER and MR. L. SANER have been appointed additional directors of Shaw and Kilburn, Ltd.
MR. J. McW.tuaam has been appointed Scottish regional manager for A.C.V. Sales, Ltd. For the past two years he has been area manager at Nottingham.
MR. A. J. DILLINGHAM has resigned from the board of F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, on reaching the age of 75. His services will be retained in an advisory capacity.
MR. S. J. WtuGGLEswort-rn has been appointed deputy managing director of Oldham and Son, Ltd., Denton, Manchester. His personal assistant will be M. ORLANDO OLDHAM, son of the chairman.
MR. CHARLES H. MALL1NSON has been appointed home sales manager for Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd. MR. DOUGLAS R. MARSH succeeds him in Manchester as north-west area sales representative.
MR. G. G. WILSON has been appointed the Institute of Transport's honorary corresponding member for Singapore. He succeeds MR. A. A. EWING, whom he also replaces as general manager of the Singapore Traction Co., Ltd.
MR. E. G. MARSDEN has been appointed secretary of British Road Services, succeed ing MR, J. L. WILLOUGHBY, who is the new traffic manager of B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd. Mr. Marsden was previously chief officer (general duties) at headquarters of the British Transport Commission.
MR. P. W. HOWARD, managing director of the British Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has been elected president of the Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers, in succession to LORD BAILLIEU. MR. D. B. COLLETF, Dunlop director, succeeds Mr. Howard as chairman of the association.
MR. C. J. BUCHANAN-DUNLOP has been appointed manager of the Banbury sales administration division of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. He was formerly with the Birmingham sales office. MR. J. A. AMBLER, formerly head of the metallurgical section of the sales development division, takes charge of the newly formed market research section of the sales department in Banbury.
MR. N. W. ROLFE, secretary and accountant of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd., will go to the U.S.A. and Canada in September to study the organization of road passenger transport. The trip is being financed by the c.M.U.A_ Road Transport Research Fellowship of £600 awarded to him in 1954 by the Institute of Transport. The.-Rees Jeffreys Road Fund will provide a further £200.
B30 MR. R. J. ELLERY has been elected to the board of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd.
MR. A. SAMUELS has been re-elected chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee for a further period of three years,
LT. CDR. I. W. THORNYCROFT has been re-elected chairman of the British Transport Vehicle Manufacturers' Association for the third successive year.
MR. H. F, ENDERSBY has been appointed works manager of Strachans Successors, Ltd., London. He has previously held supervisory posts with Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., and B.M.S., Ltd., Johannesburg.
MR. F. G. MANNINO has been appointed assistant director (general matters) of the British Transport Commission. He is at present administration officer in the funds and general division of the finance department. MR. P. A. SATCHWELL, B.E.A. work study officer, becomes a work study assistant with the Commission.
MR. ALEX FRASER, vice-chairman and managing director of Girling, Ltd., is to retire on July 31. He is to be succeeded by MR. M. W. KENDALL, Who Will become vice-chairman and general manager. Mr. Kendall is at present a director and chief engineer of Joseph Lucas (Electrical), Ltd. The executive members of the board are to be increased by the appointment of MR. A. GODDARD as a director and chief engineer, and MR. C. P. D. DAVIDSON as a director and commercial manager. MR. J. W. KINCH1N is to leave later in the year to take up another appointment. Mr. Fraser, who joined his present company in 1926, studied engineering at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and joined Albion Motors, Ltd., in 1915, Later he became general manager and director of New Hudson, Ltd. For 25 years he has been associated with the Girling brake.