Men in the News
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MR. R. G. DODDS has been elected works director of Hills (Patents), Ltd. He joined the concern in 1956.
MR. W. E. CROOK has been appointed general sales manager of the tyre division of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd.
MR. ALAN JOHNSON has become manager of the coach sales department of Coaches and Components, Ltd. He joined the company in 1948.
MR. H. R. CARVER, technical and sales director of Jonas Woodhead and Sons, Ltd., has returned from a visit to customers and agents in Scandinavia and Holland.
Ma. T. W. TwsoN, chief engineer of Dennis Bros., Ltd., is leaving today for a two-week tour of commercial-vehicle factories in the eastern part of the United States.
MR. JOITN WARREN has been appointed transport manager of Bury Co-operative Society, succeeding MR. J. L. BINN1E, who has taken up a similar post with York Co-operative Society.
MR. L. C. LLOYD has been appointed assistant works superintendent (Aldenham)of the London Trans p-o r t Executive. He was previously at• the Executive's Chiswick works.
MR. G. M. WOLFE, joint managing director of Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd., sets out on a round-the world tour next month to visit subsidiary factories and agents in the Commonwealth and Siam.
MR, R. M. VAN DYCK, export manager of Trico-Folberth, Ltd., has returned from a four-month tour, in which he visited five Commonwealth countries, Turkey, BOrma, Thailand, Japan and America.
MR. D. G. SMITH has become general manager and DR. D. A. HowEs assistant general manager of a new department of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., which will specialize in the manufacture of petroleum chemicals.
LORD BRABAZON OF TARA, chairman of Associated Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., was taken ill at the week-end and suffered another heart attack on Monday. He was reported to be comfortable on Tuesday.
Ma. E. J. COYCHEAD, manager of the Birmingham Parcels Branch Of British Road Services, has completed 50 years' continuous service in the transport industry, and has been presented with a gold watch by the B.R.S. board of management.
MR. D. P. BturoN, sales director of the Vigzol Oil Co., Ltd., is to take up residence in South Africa and will have personal charge of the company's affairs in the Union. MR. JOHN D. LODGE Will succeed him as sales director as from October 1. MR. S. P. HILTON, MR. N. F. BILTON and MR. J. W. SMITH have been appointed executive directors