FORD ENGINEER IS NEW BMC COMMERCIALS CHIEF
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STANLEY H. DEWS joins the British Motor Corporation on November 1 to take up the new appointment of director of commercial vehicle design. For the past 13 years he has been employed by the Ford Motor Co. in the commercial vehicle and car design and development field. Mr. Dews' recent posts have been mainly in the UK commercial vehicle section. His last two appointments were as executive engineer on light commercial vehicles—working on the Transit range—and then as executive engineer, commercial vehicle component engineering. He is 43. Mr. Dews was born in Birmingham and served an apprenticeship as a trainee draughtsman and later design draughtsman at the Austin Motor Co., Longbridge.
. . and stylist switches too
ALSO joining BMC from Ford, but on 6 November, is Roy D. Haynes who as director of styling for Pressed Steel Fisher Ltd. will be responsible for the styling of all BMC vehicles. He joined Ford in 1954 and for three years was senior stylist in charge of all truck and car interior styling. Later he supervised exterior design also. After a three-year spell with Lansing-Bagnall he rejoined Ford and in 1966 became executive responsible for all truck and car styling in the Ford of Britain design office.
G. M. Newberry, 48, at present general manager of the Potteries Motor Traction Co. will join the executive staff of BET on January 1, 1968, with a view to his appointment tc; the boards of associated companies. Mr. Newberry entered the BET group training scheme in 1948 and, since 1955, has held senior appointments with bus companies associated with BET. Sir Arthur Algeo has been appointed for another term as chairman of the Ulster Transport Authority. Sir Arthur is to hold office until September 13, 1968, or until the dissolution of the Authority, whichever is the sooner.
Among new appointments by the Minister of Technology to the Advisory Council on Technology is that of A. G. G. Marshall, of Marshall of Cambridge (Engineering) Ltd.
In a reorganization at Hall and Ham River Ltd.. A. W. Trigg becomes the member of the newly formed group management board responsible for transport engineering.
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C. J. Bullard: manager of Botwoods, a branch of Mann Egerton and Co. Ltd. in Bury St. Edmunds.