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MR. W. F. HALL has been appointed heavy-vehicle sales manager (home and export) by Scammell Lorries, Ltd.
MR. J. M. MOORE has been appointed private secretary. to SIR GILMOUR JENKINS, secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
MR. ALAN PIGGorr, sales manager of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., has now fully recovered from his recent operation and has resumed his duties with the company.
MR. A. C. Jon, European sales manager of the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., is leaving England by air on June 8 to visit engineering works in Austria. Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland.
SIR CYRIL MACOMB, chairman of the British Transport Commission, accompanied by LORD ASHF1ELD, last week visited the works of Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., to inspect bus bodies in course of construction.
MR. J. L. SHAW has been appointed by the North British Rubber Co, Ltd., as tyre sales representative for the Sheffield area, and MR. T. A. SHARPE has taken a similar position in the Southamptonarea.
SIR ARNOLD MUST°, C.I.E., M.I.C.E., Western Licensing Authority, is to act in a similar capacity in the South Wales Area, pending the appointment of a SUCCeSSOT 10 MR. H. TREVOR MORGAN,
M.C., K.C., J.P., who has become a County Court Judge.
MR. F. J. SPEIGITT, national chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association, and MR. F. A. WALKER, national secretary, were welcomed last Week at a meeting of the Scottish branch of the Association. .Mr. Speight referred to the application which was being made on behalf of a member for an injunction to restrain London Transport from running a daily service over a route which the member had been covering for the past 16 years. MR. W. G. P. ARNOLD, for 11 years chairman of the Tunbridge Wells subarea of the Road Haulage Association, was recently honoured by the local branch. A presentation was made on behalf of local operators by MR. C. LAMBERT, whose business has been in existence over 101 years. Mr. Arnold's concern has been operating for 104 years, and for the past 75 years in friendly competition with that of Mr. Lambert. The new chairman is Mn.. C. M. 0. STREETEN.
The Manchester branch of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., has been removed to 46, Fountain Street.
• The first large-scale transfer of plant from the Kingston factory of Leyland Motors, Ltd. (now sold to Hawker Aircraft, Ltd.), to Farington, took place this week.
The London sales office of Austin' Crompton Parkinson Electric Vehicles, Ltd., is now at Holland Park Hall, Holland Park Avenue, W.11.• The service depot remains at Brixton. "
Although there will be few American vehicles at the Commercial Motor Show, there will be representatives from many countries, and it will be of an extensively international character.
A prize of £100 will be awarded for the best commercial vehicle to be shown in the Concours d'El4gance to be held by the Measham Motor Sales Organization at Measham, Burton-onTrent, on June 8.
Edmonton, Canada, is using an old Leyland Lioness single-deck bus as a travelling playground, from which Recreation Commission workers can supervise children's games in parts of the city where there are no playgrounds.
COUNCILLOR HENRY Simm, chairman of Newcastle-on-Tyne City Transport and Electricity Committee, has been elected deputy Lord Mayor.
MR. C. B. BARRATT, sales director of Beckett, Laycock and Watkirison, Ltd., has returned to business after a long illness.
MR. A. J. LINDSAY, traffic superintendent of Oldham Passenger Transport Department, is to retire in August after 40 years' service.
MR. J. D. STARK has been elected chairman of the York centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry. His deputy is MR. A. W. RICHARDSON.
Mn.. R. A. IonoN, senior planning engineer in the medium-plate shops of G. A. Harvey (London), Ltd., has been awarded a prize by the Institute of Welding for the design of a Work-piece.
MR.H. W. HATTERSLEY, sales and export manager of Dennis Bros., Ltd., has just returned from a European tour, during which he met agents of the company and a number of leading operators.
M. C. J. MAYS has been appointed schedules superintendent (road transport) of the London Transport Executive, in succession to MR. A, F. ANDREWS, who has retired after 42 years' service.
Mn.. W. G. E. DYER, secretary of the East Midland Area of the Road Haulage Association, has resigned to take over full-time duties, as from July 1, as area secretary of the Traders' Road Transport AssociMion.
MR. T. L. C. StuaNGE has been appointed traffic manager of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., in succession to Mit. T. G. DAVIES, who became general manager of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., on June 1. Mr. Strange Was an area traffic superintendent with Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.