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COUNCILLOR J. A. Swim has been elected chairman of the transport committee of Sunderland Corporation.
ALIN RICHARD BROADLEY has been elected chairman of Burnley, Colne and Nelson Joint Trankport Committee.
MR. E. R. HONDELINK has been appointed Director General of the European Central Inland Transport Organization by the Executive Board of that body.
MR. GEORGE S. MADDEN, who has returned from active service, will take up duty, on December 1, as local manager at Londonderry of the Northern Ireland Transport Board.
MR. W. G. E. DYER has been adopted Liberal candidate for Sherwood Ward, where a vacancy has occurred on Nottingham City Council. He is senior regional executive officer of the National Road Transport Federation.
MR. LEONARD T. /vIERRALL, deputy transport manager of Leigh Corporation, has been appointed general manager of Ravvtenstall Corporation bus undertaking. He succeeds MR. W. H. BARKER, who has been appointed to Preston.
MR. F. G. G. ARMSTRONQ has resigned from the managing directorship of Armstrong Shock Absorbers, Ltd., in favour of MR. W. ARMSTRONG, but will continue in office as a director and technical adviser.
MR. R. J. HOWLEY has resigned the chairmanships of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., and Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., but continues to serve on the board of each company. MR. W. T. JAMES succeeds Mr. Howley as chairman of the former company, whilst MR. R. P. BEDDOW has been appointed chairman of the Trent concern. Both companies are associated with the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., of which Mr. Howley is chairman.
*R. REAY GEDDES, who was in India for the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., when war broke out, has rejoined the company's overseas department as overseas sales manager and deputy to the director of overseas sales. As circumstances permit, he hopes to visit many overseas organizations. He joined the Dunlop concern in 1935, going to India three years later. As a member of the R.A.F.V.R. since 1937, he became a pilot at the outbreak of war in India, and later in the South-east Asia Command. In January, 1944, he was appointed to the Air Ministry in London and was Deputy Director of Air Transport be f ore he was demobilized with the rank of Group Captain. He has been awarded the 0.13.E, for his services. LORD BURGHLEY has rejoined the board of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., following the completion of his term of office as Governor of Bermuda.
MR. JAMES MCKNIGHT, traffic superintendent at Wigan, has been recommended by the transport committee for appointment as general manager of the transport department of the corporation, a position rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr. J. Brierley.
WING COMMANDER J. H. GLADSTONE has rejoined the board of W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd., from which he resigned in December, 1939, to join the R.A.F. He is a B.Sc. (lions.) of London University and, since the surrender of Italy, has acted in the capacity of technical adviser to the Italian Air Force. His experience in many theatres of war will prove of much value to the company in its postwar developments.
Mn. DENIS HAYS has been appointed sales manager of the transport section in the Dunlopillo division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. He joined Dunlop's in October, 1930, and has been a salesman of commercial-vehicle tyres, a general salesman and contact man for Dunlopillo, and, since 1937, amlopillo sales manager. He has just left the Army with the rank of Lt.-Colonel. His headquarters will be at the factory at Walton, Liverpool, which is now being equipped to make Dunlopillo
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MR: J. HARPER, A.M.I.R.T.E. whose portrait appears on this page, h.as been appointed to the board of Used Units, Ltd., Whittlefield Garage, Burnley. In 1919, upon his demobilitation from the A.S.C. (M.T.) after overseas service, he returned to Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., and was in charge o4 the commercialvehicle reconditioning and repair shops. He was appointed works and service manager in 1926 and held that position until 1934, when he resigned to take the position of general manager with Used Units, Ltd. CAPTAIN S. J. M. BEALE, A.M.I.E.E., upon being released, from the Army, where he served in the R.E. and R.E.M.E., has been appointed general manager of the Q Vehicle Co., Ltd.
COMMANDER W. A. MOENS, R.N., has returned to the road transport division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., with headquarters in London. Throughout the war he was on escort duties at sea, including convoy work to North Russia, and last year was mentioned in despatches. He has been with the Dunlop company since 1926, latterly as manager of the mileage contracts department.
SIR ALLAN GORDON-SMTTH, K.B.E., Di., has been appointed chairman of S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd., and its associated concerns. He succeeds the late Mr. Walter Henderson Cleland, M.C. Sir Allan, whose grandfather and father founded and built up the business of S. Smith and Sons, became managing director in 1913 when the firm became a limited company, which is now grouped into four main divisional companies, each of which controls a number of associated concerns.
MR. EDWARD W. MARTIN has been `appointed to the board of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., which he joined in 1912. He served throughout the 1914-18 war in the Royal Field Artillery, rejoining the sales department of the company upon demobilization. He was appointed sales manager in 1931, and has recently been placed in executive control of both home and export sales and service departnients, for Standard and Triumph products. He represents Sir John• Black, deputy chairman and managing director, on the Council of the S.M.M. and T., and is a member of the Fellowship of the Motor Industry.
SIR JOHN MAXWELL, C.M.G., is to retire on December 31 from his position of Regional Transport Commissioner for the Northern Region and chairman of Traffic Commissioners. MR. S. W. NELSON has been appointed R.T.C. for the Northern Region and chairman of Traffic Commissioners for the Northern Traffic Area in succession to him. Sir John has been chairman of Traffic Commissioners since the coming into operation of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, originally for the Northern Scotland Traffic Area, and since 1933 for the Northern Traffic Area, at Newcastle. Mr. Nelson was Clerk to the Traffic Commissioners for the West Midland Region until 1936, when he was seconded to the Colonial Office to act as chairman of the Transport Licensing Board in the Federated Malay States. In 1941 he was seconded to the Government of Ceylon to examine the transport system there and to make recommendations for the co-ordination of traffic on roads and railways, being made Director of Transport in that country in 1942.