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Mr. D. K Gisby has been appointed works director of Stormont Engineering Co., Ltd., and Sennocke Engineering Co., Ltd.
Mr. C. E. L. Green, formerly with Mercedes-Benz (Great Britain). Ltd., has joined Jackson's Garages, Jersey, as general manager.
Following the take-over of Guy Motors, Ltd., by Jaguar. Mr. Robin Guy. 37. technical director. and Mr. Trevor Guy, 32. director in charge of service. have had their appointments terminated. Mr. Robin Guy had been with the firm for 20 years and Mr. Trevor Guy for 12 years.
Mr. G. M. Wolfe, chairman and managing director of Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd., left by air for Australia last Saturday on a four weeks' business trip. He was being met at Perth by Mr. .1. 0. Bovi11, managing director of the Australian associate company. Wolf Sales Pty., Ltd.
Councillor W. E. Messenger, Mayor of Malden and Coombe. has been appointed group distribution manager of Pinchin, Johnson and Associates, Ltd., London, with effect from November I. His resignation as commercial sales manager, fleet division, of Henlys, Ltd.. London. takes effect at the end of this month.
Mr. H. N. G. Harrison has been elected to the board of Edmunds. Walker and Co., Ltd., following the retirement of Mr. J. T. McNeil. Mr. Harrison will continue to handle publicity and sales promotion operations and to act as personal assistant to Mr. T. E. Walker, managing director. Mr. McNeil retains his seat on the board.
Mr. F. D. M. Gamble was installed as president of the Diesel Engineers and Users Association at the annual general meeting of the association last week. The Percy Still medal for 1961 has been awarded to Mr. John Griffith for his paper "Diesel Propulsion for . Small Vessels" presented at a meeting of the association in February.
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Mr. John Creek succeeds Mr. A. H. Davies on November 1 as managing director of Fibreglass, Ltd. Mr. Davies becomes vice-chairman.
Mr. C. W. Page has been appointed sales manager of the Industrial Division of Castro], Industrial, Ltd., a newly created post. Mr. Page has been with Castro! for 34 years.
Mr. W. S. Renwick has been appointed assistant divisional superintendent for the southern division of London Transport's network of country bus and Green Line coach services. Mr. Renwick started his career in transport as a bus conductor.
Mr. J. Bowman is to head a new international public relations division being established by the Perkins Group. Other members of the new division, which will co-ordinate sales promotion activities. include: Mr. F. G. Hooper, group Press and U.K. public relations manager; Mr. K. W. Reed, employee publications manager; Mr. R. H. Thompstone, Press officer; Mr. H. Henson, factory visits co-ordinator.
Forthcoming Events
October 11-211.—Earls Court Motor Show.
October 24.27.—Royal Dairy Shaw, Olympia. October 28-November 1.—Turin Motor Show. October Mt.—Traders Road Transport Association
Annual Dinner and Dance. Grosvenor House, Landon, October 3I.—British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association Dinner. Grosvenor House. Park Lane, London.
November 10-18.—Seouish Show. Kelvin Hall. Glasgow.
November 13-16.—National Maintenance Conference and Exhibition. Central Hall. Westminster.
1962 February 22-March 4.—Amsterdam Show.
Apra 74.—National Coach Rally. Blackpool. April 30-May 5.—F.I.S.1.T.A. Ninth international Automotive Technical Congress. Church House, Westminster.
May 5-IL--Mechanical Handling Exhibition. Earls Court.
May 15-17.—Public Transport. Association Conference Harrogate, May 29-June 1. -Institute of Transport Congress, Cardiff September 21-29.—Commercial Motor Show. Earls Court.
October 15-17.—Road Haulage Association Conference. Bournemouth, October 17-27.—Earls Court Motor Show.
Fallowing are the provisional dates of Continental shows for 1962: Copenhagen—March 7-1t: Geneva— March 15-25; Paris—October 4-14: Turin—October 3 I -November 11.
New Ferry Ship Means Daily Service
THE latest vessel for the Transport Ferry Service fleet, the 2.600-ton m.v. '' Doric Ferry," was launched from the Ailsa shipyard at Troon on Tuesday. The new vessel provides 17,000 sq. ft. of shipping space and is the second to be launched this year for the Transport Ferry Service. She joins her sister ship, the m.v. " Cerdic Ferry," on the TilburyAntwerp/Rotterdam route early next year. With the " Doric " will come a daily service to Antwerp and Rotterdam for lorries and freight trailers.
Mr. L. Colkett, Mr. K. C. McCarthy and Mr. G. H. Thornley have been appointed to the hoard of Castro!. Ltd.
Herr Willy Max Rademacher, German M.P. and president of the West German forwarding agents' and warehousemen's organization, Arbeitsgemeinshaft Spedition told Lagcrei e.V., of Bonn, has been elected president of the International Federation of Forwarding Agents' Associations (FE ATM, of Antwerp.
Obituary
WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. VV J. M. Ridley, Mr. F. S. Caplin, Mr. T. Siddle and Mr. S. Hedgecock. Mr. Ridley, who died at Hexham. Northumberland, founded the road haulage firm of J. M. Ridley. Ltd. He was 50.
Mr. Caplin, who was 60. had been transport manager of the North Thames Gas Board since 1949 and served the Board for 31 years. Mr. Siddle, who was 84, was a pioneer in the' motor coach business in Penrith, Cumberland.
Mr. Hcdgecock was a director and chief engineer of Laystall Cromard, Ltd. In his 34 years with the company he was responsible for many Laystall projects. including the development of Cromard cylinder liners.
Too Much H.P.
HiRE-PURCHASE commitments on 'vehicles he bought totalled £212 a month—far in excess of his ability to pay—a former haulage contractor said at his public examination in bankruptcy at Newport last week.
The former contractor. Rhys Evans. po of New Street, Newrt, now a £10 a week van driver, said he had debts of £3,757 with 28 creditors and no assets at all.
He set up business as a haulage contractor in October, 1958. with borrowed capital. His first lorry cost £1,530 and at one time he had four or five on the road.