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MR. GEORGE BRACKEN has been appointed manager of the new branch factory at Oak Mills, Clayton, Bradford, of Jowett Cars, Ltd.
MR. J. L. BROCKHOUSE, M.A., managing director of J. Brockhouse and Co.. Ltd., has been elected chairman, on the death Of MR. E. B. BURTON.
MR. C. N AKEROYD has been .re-elected chairman of the Yorkshire (West Riding) Area Tipping Vehicle Operators' Functional Group of the Road Haulage Association.
• MR. MICHAEL CLARK HALL has resigned his position as public relations officer to the British Road Federation, and will on March 1, become public
• relations officer to King George's Fund for Sailors. •
MR. S. MARKLAND, 0.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., director and chief engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., and MR. N. TarrEicsaLL, M.I.Mech.E., the company's ressarch engineer, have been awarded the Starley Premium by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for their recent joint paper entitled "Some Notes on the Design, Development and Production of High-speed Compressionignition Engines."
MR, S. W. NELSON, Minst.T., chairman of the Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles and Licensing Authority for Goods Vehicles for the Northern Traffic Area, is, for the time being, to act in a similar capacity in the Scottish Traffic Area. As already announced in "The Commercial Motor," MR. A. HENDERSON, Minst.T., Scottish Licensing Authority, recently accepted an invitation to become a fulltime member of the Road Transport Executive of the British Transport Commission. MR. R. ASKHAM has been appointed a director of the Deighton Motor Co., Ltd., Sheffield.
MR. HARRY SMITH has been elected to succeed MR. E. BROWN as chairman of the Skipton section of the Motor Agents' Association. MR. F. WHITEHEAD is the new vice-chairman, in succession to MR. H. Hoomt-rut. For the seventh year. MR. T. A. LOVELL has been elected chairman of the Peterborough section of the South-East Midland Div isipn of the M.A.A.
SIR Witiiam Rooms, K.B.E., chairman of the Rootes group, accompanied by his son, MR. BRIAN Rooms, has left for a further tour of the United States, and will visit Canada, the Caribbean and various South American countries, in the cause of British exports. Incidentally new Commer 5and 7-tonners are aheadbeing exported to America. Before leaving. Sir William stressed the need for a reduction of prices and for more steel for the industry to permit it to work to capacity.
SIR WILLIAM J. THOMSON, who built up the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., out of nothing, was entertained at a private farewell dinner in Edinburgh, last week, on the eve of his departure for a two months' trip to the United States and the Bahamas. He recalled that his most momentous decision was when he scrapped 1,000 petrol engines with a stroke of the pen in favour of oil engines. At that time there was no duty on heavy oils, and the change-over paid for itself handsomely.
TALK ON MAINTENANCE AT a meeting of the Scottish centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers to be held in the Engineers' and Shipbuilders' Hall, Glasgow, at 7.30 pm. on March 8, Mr. C. S. Lodge, A.M.I.Mech.E., of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., will speak on "The Maintenance of Motor Vehicles."