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MR. A. E. SEARLE has been elected chairman of the London Division of the Industrial Transport Association and MR. H. E. C. YOUNG' has been elected honorary treasurer. They are manager and assistant manager respectively of the Transport and Depot Stocks Department of Castro!, Ltd..
MR. ARTHUR HOSIER, production manager of the headquarters factories of Leyland Motors, Ltd., since 1951, has been appointed works manager of these factories. MR. F. BuLtotruit has been appointed factory manager of Spurrier Works, one of the Lancashire factories of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
MR. SYLVESTER G. GATES, chairman of Teatlernit, Ltd., has left for a visit to Sierra Leone, which this week became an
• independent state. Mr. Gates, as chairman of the Bank of West Africa, is taking part in the celebrations. MR. T. R. HARDMAN, Teealemit sales director, is at the present moment in India, and MR. J. E. DRINKWATER, the production director, is on a visit to Canada and the U.S.A.
MR. 0. E. R. DAVIES has been appointed manager, Trade Services, Tyre Replacement Division, of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., working from Wolverhampton. Mr. Davies joined Goodyear in 1948 and has worked as sales representative in the Norwich area until taking up his new appointment at Goodyear Head Office. MR. J. G. BOWMAN has been appointed district manager, Southern Division (Southampton District), of the Goodyear company. PROFESSOR A. BEACHAM has been appointed chairman of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for Wales and Monmouthshire in place of the late Mr. R. G. M. Street.
MR. J. C. CHEWS has been appointed works manager of Sheepbridge Stokes, Ltd., Chesterfield. Mr. Childs was previously methods engineer with Sheepbridge Alloy Castings, Ltd.
MR, T. H. SUMMERSON has been reappointed a part-time member of the British Transport Commission until April 30, 1962. Mr. Summerson is chairman of the North-Eastern Area Board of the B.T.C.
MR. 1. C. CRUICKSHANK, who has been in charge of small tool production for Leslie Hartridge, Ltd., since 1955, has been appointed company secretary. MR. R. S. EMERSON has been appointed engineer-designer, Test Rigs Division.
MR. D. F. BALAAM takes over the post of London manager, W. P. Butterfield (Engineers), Ltd., from May 1, in succession to MR. J. C. DE;DGEoN who is retiring from active management but will still remain on the board. Mr. Salaam will be succeeded as London area technical representative by MR. D. J. FAIRBRASS.
MR. D. J. MEREDITH has been appointed assistant district superintendent of Maidstone and District Motor Services' Medway Towns area in succession to MR. A. J, H. BAKER who recently became assistant traffic manager of the company. Mr. Meredith joined M. and D. last August after spending three years with Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. DR. T. U. MATTHEW has been appointed Director Manufacturing, Massey-Ferguson (United Kingdom), Ltd. Dr. Matthew is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Production Engineers.
MR. CHRISTOPHER T. BRUNNER has been elected chairman of the council of the International Road Federation on the retirement of Sir Reginald Biddle. Mr. Brunner is a director of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., and also of the National Benzoic Co., Ltd., and of the Power Petroleum Co., Ltd.
MR. EDWARD FRASER, Who has been a Northern area examiner for over 27 years, and one of the longest serving examiners of the Ministry of Transport, has been appointed senior traffic examiner to the North Western Traffic Area. He expects to take up his appointment in Chester within the next two weeks, MR. ALAN DAWSON has been appointed truck sales manager, Car and Truck Domestic Sales Division, of Ford Motor Co., Ltd. He joined Ford of Dagenham in 1943 and spent several years in the company's Export Division. Three years ago he joined the Domestic Sales Division and subsequently held appointments as fleet sales representative and as area representative for Central London,
MR. GEORGE NOBLE, a director of Esso Petroleum Co„ Ltd., retired on April 1. For the past 31 years he had held responsible positions in the Esso group of companies. At the Esso Refinery, Fawley, he was successively superintendent of technical services, assistant refinery superintendent and became refinery manager in 1947. In 1952 he became general manager (Refining) and in 1953 he was appointed a director.