Mr. D. J. Meredith, district superintenent, Medway towns, Maidstone and
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listrict Motor Services Ltd., has been ppointed assistant traffic manager of the lorthern General Transport Co. Ltd. le succeeds Mr. K. Holmes, who has ecome traffic manager of East Yorklire Motor Services Ltd. Mr. Meredith, • ho takes up his appointment on June 8, ampleted his training with Ribble under B.E.T. scheme before joining the laidstone company in 1960; his Medlay towns appointment was made in une last year.
Mr. Victor L. !arter, chief ngineer at Alford nd Alder (Enginers) Ltd. for the ast five years, has een appointed a irector of the ompany. Mr.
!atter joined dford and Alder 1 1942nd became hief i engineer in 959, which posiion he will retain.
Mr. J. E. Johnson, works superintenent. Northern district, B.R.S. Ltd., has een appointed district engineer for this istrict, to take effect from June 14.
Mr. William Clark, works director of le John Bull Rubber Co. Ltd., has been ppointed vice-chairman of the Rubber lantifacturing Employers' Association.
Mr. IL T. Baker has been appointed hairrnan of Tyres (Scotland) Ltd., conNuent on the retirement from the cornany of Mr. F. C. Watt. Mr. A. B. lilne, director, has also retired from the ompany.
Mr. H. G. Follenfant, new works ngineer, London Transport, has been ppointed douty chief civil engineer.
Mr. J. J. Brookman, Lubrequipment ianager. engineering division, Castro! Id., has retired after more than 38 years' ervice with the company.
After 31 years as chairman of George mgus and Co. Ltd., Newcastle upon -yne. Col. E. G. Angus has resigned r-ona that position; he has been desigated president of the company, and will Iso remain on the board. Mr. C. L. G. taker has been appointed chairman. Mr. Ian Cunningham, deputy general manager of Bournemouth Corporation transport department, has been appointed general manager in succession to Mr. Ronald Cox, who will shortly move to Edinburgh Corporation transport department as general manager. Mr. Cunningham was prestiously with the Edinburgh undertaking.
Mr. R. S. Beacham has been appointed managing director of Dunlop Rhodesia. Since 1961 he has been overseas sales manager in Britain.
Mr. Monty Prichard, managing director of the Perkins Group, has set , off on another overseas tour which will take him to Brazil, where engines are produced by Motores Perkins S.A.; Argentina (Perkins Argentina. S.A.I.C.); the U.S.A., where a dales and service company is based in Detroit; Canada. and Japan. Already this year he h been in Australia, North America, 1India, France. Spain and Germany. He`travels, he says, as " part engineer, part manager and part diplomat ".
The Minister of Transport has appointed CHIN S. A. Bell a member of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the North Eastern area.
Mr. Peter Russell has been appointed technical liaison officer for Tudor Accessories Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex. Prior to joining the company he was a design engineer for one of the major car manufacturers.
Mr. Howard Anstee has been appointed f ie 1 d sales manager of Clayton Dewandre Ltd., Titanic Work s, Lincoln. Mr. Anstee joined the company in 1953 as a representative and became commercial assistant to the technical director last July.
Mr. W. K. G. (" Ken ") Ward, Press relations officer for Joseph Lucas Ltd., is leaving the company in July to become group publicity manager of an electronics organization in Berkshire. He has been with Lucas for 18 years.
Mr. J. Godsell and Mr. T. P. Keeling have been appointed directors and joint general managers of Industrial Hydraulics Ltd. This follows a decision to develop the sales activities of the company, which manufactures and markets a group of fundamental hydraulic units. Mr. J. M. MacInnes has been appointed sales director of Atkinson Vehicles Ltd., Preston, to take effect from July 1. He fills the post vacated last year by the retirement of Mr. P. Burgess. Mr. A. R. Young continues as sales manager at Preston. Mr. Maclnnes is at present a director and general manager of Atkinson Vehicles (Scot-. land) Ltd.:, Airdrie, and will retain his scat on the board o f the , Scottish company. H e joined. Atkinson in 1959 to represent Mr. Machines, them in Scotland.
Following the acquisitionby. Bennis Bros. Ltd: of the Mercury :Tritek: and
• Tractor Co., Ltd.,'' Mercury' Airfield Equipnient • Ltd. and • Mercury Snow Control Ltd:, Mr.' T. H. Sharman has been appointed chairman of the Mercury companies.Mi. R. T. Barufield, managing director of :the Mercury companies, has been .appointed to the board of Dennis Bros. Mr. D. Foster and Mr. P. W. Lewis, directors of Dennis Bros., have also been appointed to the Mercury hoards.
Mr. L. Landon Goodman was re-elected chairman of the National Joint Council on Materials Handling at its first annual general meeting: Mr. S. J. Noel
B rown was re-elected deputy chairman.
Mr. John Payne has been appointed Northern Ireland area manager for Joseph Lucas Ltd., in succession to Mr. Reg Cross.
Mr. J. A. Fox has been appointed sales promotion supervisor for Total Oil Product (G.B.) Ltd., at the company's Humber branch headquarters in Wood Street, Wakefield.
At the annual general meeting on Tuesday of the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain Ltd., Lord Wakefield of Kendal was re-elected president of the Association for the year 1964-5. Mr. N. J. Smith (Harborough Construction Co. Ltd.) was elected chairman and Mr. G. H. Holding (Electro-Dynami,: Construction Co. Ltd.) vice-chairman. The retiring chairman was Mr. I. A. Lowe (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd.).