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M. EDWARD BRIMELOW has been elected a director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd.
MR. S. W. KALLEND, A.C.A., has resigned his executive appointment with Chrysler Motors, Ltd., and Dodge Bros. (Britain). Ltd.
MR. MATTHEW Mao, Commissioner for Nigeria, last week visited Guy Motors, Ltd., where a number of Nigerian apprentices hasbeen trained.
M. R. C. TURNER, general manager of the motor group of Brown Brothers, Ltd., has joined the board of Brown Brothers (Aircraft), Ltd., the manufacturing subsidiary.
MR. S. C. BOYS has been elected chairman of the Southampton Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association in succession to the late MR. B. C. WREN. MR. R. CULL and MR. D. A. PETERS have become vice-chairmen.
MR. E. A. HUNT has been appointed production controller and MR. T. D. LUND senior production engineer of the Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd. Mr. Hunt was formerly with the industrial hydraulics division of the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd.
MR. J. G. ARNOLD, assistant manager of the Manchester heavy haulage branch of the Pickfords Division of British Road Services, has been appointed traffic officer of the Division, succeeding MR. G. MACLEAN, recently appointed chief removals and travel manager.
MR. W. A. WINSON, a member of the national council of the Traders* Road Transport Association and honorary treasurer of the London and Home Counties Division, has been appointed a member of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee to represent ancillary users.
MR. A. SAMUELS, chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, is to speak at a luncheon meeting of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association, at the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, London, W.1, on December 14.
MR. K. A. APPLE-TON has succeeded the late MR. K. J. SPENCER as manager of the Liverpool depot of Ferodo, Ltd. MR. A. H. COLT.INSON, formerly competitions manager, succeeds Mr. Appleton as manager of the sales (replacements) department. The new competitions manager is MR. R. SYDNEY HENSON.
MR. GEOFFREY JANES has been appointed manager of the inspection department of F. Perkins, Ltd., a new post under the control of the general manager of the manufacturing division. The position of chief inspector will cease to operate, and MR. G. BIRD, who previously held the appointment, will be responsible to Mr. Janes for outside supplier contacts.
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MR. A. R. YOUNG has joined the sales staff of the Nightingale Engineering Co., Ltd.. distributors of Atkinson vehicles. He will cover the areas of Kent, East Sussex and Surrey. Mr. Young was previously with Theatre Garage. Ltd., Sunderland.
MR. EDWARD BARFORD has become executive chairman of Aveling Barford, Ltd., instead of chairman and joint managing director. MR. H. C. RYAN has been succeeded as secretary by MR. R. A. STONHAM and has been appointed joint managing director. MR. J. L. RITCHIE has become sales director.
VEHICLE FOR URGENT REPAIRS
A VEHICLE required for the carriage fl of steel rollers for urgent repair, to prevent long hold-ups in textile mats, was added to the A licence of the Smallshaw Transport Co., Ash ton-underLyne, by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority last week.
Mr. J. A, Dunkerley, for the applicants, said that their one existing A-licence vehicle was unable to meet urgent demands. They would be prepared to have as the normal user "mainly within 30 miles of base."
For British Railways it was agreed that there was ground for a grant if the normal user was restricted.
OBITUARY
WEregret to record the death of MR. C. A. PRICE. Mr. Price was the south-western regional manager of A.C.V. Sales, Ltd. He joined the Associated Equipment Co. at Walthamstow in 1913.
LEYLAND OUTPUT UP EYLAND production so •far this year has already exceeded the total for 1955. Output in 1954 was 12 per cent. higher than in 1953, and that in 1955 21 per cent. greater than in 1954