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MR. H. R. MOORE has resigned his directorship of Wilmot-Breeden (Holdings). Ltd.
MR. H. E. SNOW and MR. M. R. BanaoEmma, managing directors of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., have been appointed deputy chairmen.
MAJ.-GEN. W. G. Fryer has been appointed deputy chairman of the Free Piston Engine Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Associated British Engineering. Ltd.
MR. W. KEENAN, the Ulster Transport Authority's assistant district passenger manager for Belfast, has retired after more than 30 years in transport.
MR. G. R. GUEST has been appointed deputy home sales manager of F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough. He will retain his present duties as industrial branch manager.
MR. M. S. MAcDotstALta has been appointed plant manager of the Scottish factory of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd. The factory will shortly be in full pro= duction.
MR. ERIC PETHT has been appointed North of England sales representative for Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd. He replaces MR. E. S. WALKER, who has left the company to take up a position with a northern engineering concern.
MR. ALBERTONIE HERMAN BROEKSMA, Q.C., has been appointed vice-chairman of Guy Motors Africa (Pty.), Ltd., an associate company of Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton. He is also a director of the Golden Arrow Rail Feeder Bus Service, Ltd., and a large South African insurance company. the Southern Life Association.
MR. W. J. SULLY, joint managing director of Sterling Metals, Ltd., and MR, W. C. JORDAN, deputy managing director of Birmetals, Ltd., have been appointed to the board of Birmid Industries, Ltd., Smethwick. Retiring directors are MR. A. E. PEARCE and MR. H. GOODWIN. MR. J. W. BERRY, at present a Birmid director, has been appointed deputy managing director of the company.
MR. S. E. CLOTWORTHY, managing director of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., has succeeded MR. W. FRASER BRUCE as the company's representative on the Aluminium Development Association. MR. B. L. PAGE, a director of John Dale, Ltd., has succeeded MR. J. F. PAtuE, former managing director of William Mills, Ltd., as representative of the aluminium founders' organization, L.M.F.A. Development, Ltd. Appointed to the executive committee are MR. R. T. RAVEN (Birmetats, Ltd.) in place Of MR. HAROLD GOODWIN, and MR. DESMOND JAMES (TI. Aluminium, Ltd.) succeeding MR. W. Fl. BOWMAN.
A30 MR. ANDREW ANDERSON has been appointed senior representative for the Scottish area of the automotive division of E. R. Howard, Ltd., Ipswich.
MR. EDMUND V. Lusts has been appointed London and Home Counties sales representative for Marshall Motor Bodies, Ltd., Cambridge. He was previously with the Ministry of Supply and the Cunard Body Building Co., Ltd
MR. A. D. IVIAckAy, who was recently appointed to the board of Associated British Engineering, Ltd., is visiting major manufacturing centres in the U.S.A. and Canada to increase dollar sales by companies in the A.B.E. group.
19-COACH BUSINESS BUILT UP IN FIVE YEARS
THE coach business of Mr. A. Box, Lower Gormal, near Dudley, Staffs, has been acquired by Hazeldine Hire Services, 3 Walsall Street, Bilston, following the retirement of Mr. Cox because of ill-health.
Five vehicles are engaged on excursions. This acquisition brings the total number of coaches operated by Hazeldine Hire Services to 19.
The firm started as coach proprietors five years ago after nationalization of their haulage business. They have since' acquired the coach business previously operated by Messrs. A. T. Hardwick in Bilston.
COAL AND FLOUR DRIVERS GET HIGHER PAY
lUIEN in the coal distributive trade, 01 who drive lorries weighing over 5 tons, have secured a pay increase of I ls. a week. Drivers of lighter vehicles, together with horse-carmen and other workers, have been awarded 8s. a week. In future, drivers of vehicles of low carrying capacity will come in the "up to 5 tons" category.
Drivers of vehicles weighing over 16 tons gross employed in the flour-milling industry outside London are being paid 16s, a week more. Other increases in this industry are: 8-16 tons, 12s.; up to 8 tons, Its.; mates, other than in C mills, 10s.; mates in C mills, 9s. 6d.
WORCESTERSHIRE CONCOURS
rOMMERCIAL vehicles owned and
run by a Worcestershire trader, or by a national company with depots in the county, may be entered in a concours d'elegance to be held at Victoria Park, Malvern Link, Worcs, on September 8 at 2 p.m. Further details can be obtained from Mr. R. A. Gammons, Winter Gardens, Malvern.