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Mg. H. I . DowsErt, chairman and managing director of the Dowsett group. has left for a visit to Dowsett Engineering (Australia) Pty., Ltd. , MR. K. R. THOMAS. M.B.E., has been appointed recruitMent; training and education officer of the London Transport ExecUtive.
Mr. P. N. Gam'. who took a leading part in the negotiations ending in the building. of the new bus, station at Guildford, is general manager of ,the Aldershot and District Traction Co. • MR. H. W. PAYNE has joined Ante Sales (London). Ltd:. as_ sales manager. handling the compny's Dodge and other d si rib u to rshi ps.
Mn. A. T. WII,FoRt-3, B.Sc., has been appointed director of research of the London Transport Executive. He will be a member of the. Research Co-ordination Committee of the British Transport Commission.
MR. H. 1Rwtia, who jo:ned• Triplex.(Northern),•'Ltd., as general manager in 1946. has been elected to the board.
Mn. H. F. OUTEN, of Messrs. °Uteri and Armitage, and a member of the national council of the Road.Haulage Association, has been re-elected to Luton Borough Council and reappointed chairman of the municipal transport committee.
MR. J. M. BIRCH, of Birch Bras., Ltd.. has been elected chairman of the national council of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. Vicechairmen are MR. F. J. SPEIGHT Of George Ewer and Co., Ltd., Ma. W. SEDDON and MR. G. J. Miller. MR. S. D. Ornav .is the treasurer.
MR. H. C. R. Mui.I.F.tas has been appointed director of exports of Nuffield Exports, Ltd. He was formerly on the board of Morris Motors, Ltd. The general manager of Nuffield Exports, Ltd., MR. C. E. ALDRIDGE, is' shortly to retire. He will be replaced by MR. J. W. MALONE, general' sales manager, who will, in turn, be succeeded by MR. G. C. luck., sales pro
motion manager. , MR. L. G. Amiss was installed last Wednesday as president of the National Tyre Distributors' Association. Originally with the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., from 1922-32, he joined Messrs. Stella Tyre Experts. of Birmingham, in 1933, becoming a director in 1936. He was chairman of the Midland Region of N.T.D.A. in 1942, has been a national council member for several years, and treasurer for the past eight.
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Mn. 1, W. S. BRANEKER, general manager (commercial), British Overseas Airways Corporation; Mn. C. "f. BRUNNER, director and joint general manager, Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.; Mn. S. KENNEDY, chairman. Tilling Group management board; MR. V. A. M. ROBER'ESON, C.B.E., M.C. chief civil engineer, British Railways, Southern Region; Mn: A: B. B. VALENTINE, a member. of the London Transport Executive, and MR. DostarDSONI WRIGHT, formerly director of Donaldson Wright, Ltd., have been appointed vice-presidents of the Institute, of Transport. As reported last week, Mr. J. S. :Wills. is president-elect.