Mr. C. P. Hartrey Retires
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The appointment as advertisement manager of The Commercial Motor held by Mr. Charles P. Hartrey was relinquished by him on July 1 after almost a business lifetime of service on this journal.
Charles Hartrey joined Temple Press Limited in 1916, after being invalided out of the army. He had been in Flanders in November, 1914, with his Territorial regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles. Initially an advertisement representative on The Commercial Motor, he became chief business representative in 1932 and was appointed advertisement manager in I937—thus having completed 21 years in this capacity.
He is a member of the Fellowship of the Motor Industry, has been on the council of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund for many years, and was chairman of the London and Home Counties Centre of this Fund from 1946 to 1950. His work in the latter connection has contributed to the great respect in which he is held and his popularity throughout the commercial-vehicle industry, in many of the higher circles of which he is accepted more as a friend than as a business acquaintance. Whether as a' guest, or a host, he has always been completely at his ease.
Mr. Hartrey, although retiring from the position of advertisement manager, will remain with The Commercial Motor for some time in a consultative capacity.
The successor to Mr. Hartrey_ as 'advertisement manager is Mr. C. John French. He joined Temple Press Limited in March, 1926, and became an advertisement representative of The Motor in April, 1937. After war service he rejoined Temple Press in 1946 and was appointed advertisement manager of Light Metals in the following year.
Since then Mr. French has held various appointments with the company and, at one time, was advertisement manager simultaneously of the three journals Light Metals, Plastics and The Overseas Engineer. He relinquished all these positions in 1956 to become advertisement manager of a new Temple Press journal, Nuclear Engineering.