Mr. T. A. Read has been appointed to the board
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of F. Perkins Ltd. He will continue to carry out his group staff duties as staff director, legal and secretarial services, and to exercise the function of company secretary to the group.
Mr. W. G. Dalziel, Mr. P. W. R. de la Have and Mr. A. D. Reid have been appointed executive directors of S.M.T. Sales and Service Co. Ltd., coachbuilders of Edinburgh. Mr. Dalziel is the company's area manager at Carlisle and joined S.M.T. in 1938. Mr. de la Haye is Edinburgh area manager and joined the company in 1933. Mr. Reid is Aberdeen area manager and joined the company in 1936.
Mr. W. H. Newman has resigned his directorship with Martin Walter Ltd., of Folkestone, after 44 years with the company. Mr. Newman joined Martin Walter in 1919 and became sales manager in 1922. He was appointed sales director in 1947 and held the offfce until 1955, when Martin Walter Ltd. was converted from a private to a public company. Mr. J. W. Sutton has been appointed director of manufacture and service. He joined the company in 1962 as general manager of production at Dormobile Works, Folkestone. Mr. Sutton was apprenticed to the Austin Motor Co. Ltd. from 1933 to 1937, then joined the Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. as assistant engine test superintendent. Subsequently he served with the Standard Motor Co. Ltd., Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. and Jaguar Cars Ltd. He joined Dennis Bros. in 1957 as works director and was appointed to the board in 1958.
A Duglad Clerk Prize, a scientific award made by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, has been presented to Dr. J. H. Weaving, chief gas turbine engineer of the Austin Motor Co., for his paper on " Small Gas Turbines ". The Institution's most valuable award, the James Clayton Prize of £1,700, is, for 1963, to he divided equally between Mr. P. Jackson, director of research, Wm. Doxford and Sons Ltd., of Sunderland, and Mr. F. B. Levetus, technical director, Keelavite Hydraulics Ltd., of Coventry.
A recent announcement on behalf of Wilmot Breeden (Holdings) Ltd. that Mr. F. J. Hum had accepted an invitation to join the board of that company, implied that he was relinquishing his directorship of S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd. This is not so; Mr. Horn remains on the board of S. Smith and Sons.
Mr. R. D. Kimber has been appointed sales promotion and advertising manager of the Wayne Tank and Pump Co. Ltd., of Bracknell, Berks. Mr. Raymond Tuft, divisional superintendent of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd. since 1930, retired at the end of 1963 after 51 years' road transport service. Mr. Tuft started his career in 1913 with Walsall Corporation and joined South Staffs Tramways Co. in 1915. moving to Birmingham and Midland in 1924.
The Minister of Transport has appointed Mr. J. D. Wallace, formerly a senior engineer in Wales and Monmouth division, as a divisional road engineer, North Western division, in succession to Mr. J. L. Paisley, who has been appointed deputy chief engineer in place of Mr. C. E. Hollinghurst, who retired on December 31 last. Mr. G. F. Norris, formerly a senior engineer in North Eastern division, has been promoted to assistant chief engineer in charge of planning and programming branch at headquarters. Mr. P. G. Lyth, formerly assistant chief engineer, has been appointed joint head of the new London highways division at headquarters; the other joint head is Mr. E. S. Ainley, an assistant secretary.
Mr. W. Henderson has been appointed a director of the Alexandra Transport Co., Glasgow. Mr. P. M. Yates has been elected to the board of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings) Ltd., and Mr. E. Green and Mr. S. Husband have been elected to the board of the subsidiary company, Atkinson Vehicles Ltd.
After 34 years' service with Servis Recorders Ltd., of Gloucester, Mr. L. G. Salmon, representative of the North and West London, Middlesex, Beds, Bucks, Herts and Berks areas, is to retire.
Mr. C. E. Briggs, vice-president of the Chrysler Corporation and general manager of the Chrysler-Plymouth division, retired on January 1. He will continue as a sales management consultant to the Corporation. Mr. P. N. Buckminster will replace Mr. Briggs in the ChryslerPlymouth division. He has been assistant general manager of the Dodge Car and Truck division since 1961 and before then was president and general manager of Chrysler International S.A. in Geneva.
Mr. J. E. Barnwell, 44-year-old financial controller of British Ropes Ltd., has been appointed a director of British Ropes Ltd. Mr. Barnwell, who has been with the company for 11 years, will continue his responsibilities of financial controller.