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MR, James K. WEER has been elected a director of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Ltd.
Ma. J, M. RILLANE has been appointed overseas sales manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. C. G. CowNos has been appointed a director of Steel Barrel, Scarnmells and Associated Engineers, Ltd.
MR. R. J. PE1T1TT, sales director of B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., has returned to duty after a long absence through illness.
MR. W. E. FOSTER has succeeded MR. W. F. P. Bistiw as secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Area of the Road Haulage Association. Mr. Foster comes from the head office of the R.H.A.
MR. A. E. WesTota, late of the D. P. Battery Co., Ltd., has joined Hindle, Smart and Co., Ltd., as manager of the company's Birmingham branch. His office will be at I, Moore Street, West Bromwich, SIR ALLAN GORDON SMITH, chairman tff the Smith group of companies, left London last Sunday by air for America. He will be away for three weeks, spending a week in Canada and a fortnight in the U.S.A.
MR. H. J. Heivirrr, Ma J. G. FLETCHER and MR. GORDON R. CLARK have been appointed sales representatives of Pirelli, Ltd., to operate in the Birmingham, Scottish and Manchester regions respectively.
MR, T. R. CHARLESWORTH has been appointed chief technical engineer to the Laycoek Engineering Co., Ltd. He will be concerned particularly with research and development of Layrub propeller shafts and allied components MR. F. E. Maert, works director, and MR. W. ANDERSON. foundry manager, of the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., left for the U.S.A. on Wednesday. They expect to stay about three months to study industrial, technical and managerial methods.
MR. L. B. HUTCHINSON, C.B., at present under-secretary (general) at the.. Ministry of Supply, has been appointed a deputy secretary to the Ministry. Ho succeeds SIR GEORGE TURNER, K-B.E., C.B., when the latter takes up his appointment as Permanent Undersecretary of State for War.
MR, JOHN OLDHAM, 0.B.E., J.P., chairman and joint managing director of Oldham and Son, Ltd., is on a business visit to the United States. He . was joined in New York by three of the company's executive directors, MR, H. Hour (technical developments), MR. F. Boom (storage battery research), and MR. J. DOWSE (production). Mr. Oldham and his team are staying in America for six weeks.
A28 SIR ROBERT LETCH. M.Inst.T., member of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, has been elected a vicepresident of the Institute of Transport.
MR. P. L. FLEMING, chairman of the Union Commercial Investment Co., Ltd., and other companies, has been appointed a director of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd.
MR, D. H. PHILLIPS, A.C.I.S., F.I.M.I., director and general manager of the Bristol Motor Co., Ltd., has been appointed managing director in succession to the late Mr. Arthur E. Johnson. Mr. Phillips is chairman of the western counties region of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
MR. J. B. McGuioaN, of Glasgow Corporation transport department, has received from the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association a diploma and a prize of £5 5s. for having obtained the highest aggregate marks in Scotland in all subjects for which he sat during the three years' course under scheme B of the Royal Society of Arts. Other awards have been made to Ma. W. B. CAMPBELL (Scottish Tar Distillers, Ltd.), MR. W. LYLE (Scottish Motor Traction Co„ Ltd.), and MR. W. B. SAVAGE (Glasgow Corporation transport department) for their successes in the examinations_
MR. ARTHUR H. BOLL, export technical adviser to Oldham and Son, Ltd., has been appointed export manager, and MR. H. C. EDMONDS, formerly sales promotion manager of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., has taken over the newly created post of manager, overseas sales development. This arrangement has been made to place the export department under the joint control of two senior executives. MR. A. G. TOWNSEND, who until recently was in charge of the export department, is joining the board of a new Oldham company now being formed in collaboration with S.A. D'EcIairage et D'Applications Eleetriques of Arms, to provide full manufacturing and • service facilities for Oldham lamps and batteries in France. Two other Oldham concerns are to be established in India and South Africa.