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MR. S. HaTtiawav, traffic superintendent of Rochdale Transport Department, is to take up a similar appointment with Stockport Transport Department.
MR. E. H. BURN has been elected chairman of the new Hull centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. MR. G. HENDRY SMITH has been appointed secretary and MR. C. E. PROCTER treasurer.
MR. T. P SEARIGHT has resigned from the chairmanship of H. M. Hobson, Ltd., but remains a director. MR. S. W. HUGHES has been elected chairman and continues as managing director. MR. T. Sitarsoi4 has been appointed assistant managing director and MR. P. H. STOK ES technical director.
MR. J. R. EDWARDS has been appointed general works manager of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., in charge of allfactories at Longbridge. He was previously production manager, a position now assumed by MR. W. V. LYONS with MR. R. NIVEN as his assistant. MR. L. MAT-mews has become works superintendent In the new commercial' vehicle factory. MR. CORDING MANLEY is to take up on November 1 the position of assistant manager and engineer of the Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co.
MR. C. S. DUNBAR, M.INsr.T., transport officer of the Colonial Development Corporation, leaves by air for East Africa on November 12. He expects to be away for about a month. His task is to survey the corporation's undertakings.
MR. GEORGE F. CRAVEN, until 1947 general manager of Halifax Transport Department, has offered to come out of retirement and take up his former post without salary until a successor to MR. F. Cook, who died suddenly last week, is appointed. His offer has been accepted by the transport committee.
Ma. A. STANLEY DEN-roN, of Bradford Transport Department, has been appointed assistant traffic officer of Hull Transport Department, where he succeeds MR. N. MCDON4LD, who has become deputy general manager of Burton-on-Trent Transport Department. Mr. McDonald replaces MR. R. SIENSON, who IS retiring after 48 years' service.