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MR. N. G. LANCASTER has been appointed an additional director of Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd.
CotR. MOULD-GRAHAM, chairman of Newcastle upon Tyne Transport Committee, has been elected Lord Mayor.
Ma. E. A. WHITEHEAD has been elected chairman of the transport committee of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Ma. J. E. MOORE continues as vice-chairman.
MR. G. Rus(rroN has been appointed sales manager of the retaining-ring division of Geo. Salter and Co., Ltd., in addition to his position as sales manager of the roller-bearing division.
MR. J. L. HEPWORTH has succeeded PROF. W. A. TUPLIN as chairman of the north-eastern centre of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. MR. H. GLEDHILL has been re-elected honorary secretary.
MR. W. J. GREEN, Cheltenham manager of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., retired yesterday. At 82. he was the oldest of the company's 10,000 employees and had given 67 years' service.
MR. F. J. FROST has been appointed head of the administration of advertising on road vehicles in the commercial advertisement division of the department of the chief public relations and publicity officer of the British Transport Commission. He succeeds MR. R. W. 1OLLEY, now sales promotion officer.
MR. W. C. T. CHANTLER has been appointed chairman and MR. B. W. BLEANEY, managing director, of Jack Olding and Co. (Motors), Ltd. This company has been formed to absorb the motor interests of Jack Olding and Co., Ltd., and J. Fricker, Ltd. MR. A. WILCOCKS is secretary of the company.
MR. H. R. LANE, works manager of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., will become chief engineer of the company upon the retirement on July 1 of MR. R. F. CLEIIENT, maintenance engineer. Ma. K. T. SMALLEY, who has been with Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., since 1948, has been appointed assistant engineer of Southdown. He will take up his new duties in May.
MR. A. A. B. Siam has retired from his position as Orinskirk district traffic superintendent of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. He spent his early years prospecting in South Africa and after the First World War pioneered a bus service on Merseyside. In 1928, Ribble acquired the company that he and his brother built up. He took up his position at Ormskirk in 1941.
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MR. M. F. BARNARD has been elected president and chairman of the Mansion House Association on Transport.
MR. WALTER BLADES, export sales manager of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., left on Wednesday for another overseas tour. He is visiting Australia and the Far East and will be away for some weeks.
MR. C. W. E. KERR has been appointed general manager of the automotive division of E. R. Howard, Ltd. He was formerly general manager of the motor division of Kerry's (Great Britain), Ltd.
SIR WILLIAM ROOTES, 111 his capacity as chairman of the Dollar Exports Council, left the United Kingdom last week for an extensive tour of the dollar areas of the Caribbean, the United States and Canada.
OBJECTOR CRITICIZED
REPLYING to an objection by the Plymouth Co-operative Society against an application by the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., for a -licence to carry members of the Totnes United Football Club to football matches, the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, said he could see no reason for the objection. He hoped the society did not expect him to leave people without means for getting to away matches, because he considered that the proposed service was necessary.