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MR. L. A. BEARE has been appointed sales representative for Europe of Nuffield Exports, Ltd.
MR. C. H. SUTHERLAND has resigned from the board of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
SIR Wit,riam J. LARKE, K.B.E., has been elected president of the British Standards Institution in succession to LORD MCGOWAN, K.B.E.
MR. SAMUEL Swim, chairman of Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd, Newcastle-on-Tyne, who has been ill, for some time. has had a relapse. He is 77 years old.
MR, C. H. PCARCE. a field engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., recently returned to this country after spending 14 months in the Middle East, where he has been giving instruction in the servicing and maintenance of Leyland vehicles.
COL. G. W. PURSER, 0.E., left by air last Tuesday for India and Pakistan. Col. Purser, who recently retired from the Indian Army, was the first Director of Mechanical Engineening in Pakistan, and is making an extended tour of India and Pakistan on behalf of Guy Motors, Ltd., and the Sunbeam Trolley Bus Co., Ltd.
MR. A. L. S. COPE, export manager of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., is on his way home by sea from Sydney, Austran lia. and expects to arrive in the first week in September. He had originally planned to visit all the principal cities of Australia and then tour South and Central Africa, but his trip was curtailed by illness. He Was, however, able to tour New Zealand, and arrange for Replacement Parts (Pty.), Ltd., Melbourne, to represent Simms Motor Units, Ltd., in Victoria and Tasmania.
MR. GEORGE W. BAKER. director Of sales for AC-Sphinx Spark. Plug Co., Ltd., has just returned from a Continental selling mission. He was able to counter American competition by offering guaranteed delivery within three weeks. To carry out this promise, production at the Dunstable factory wilt have to be speeded up. With him on the tour were MR, GODFREY COTTON, public relations manager of the company, and MR, W. BLAKE, manager of AC and D R.H. Products, General Motors Export Corporation
MR. E. S. Canisi, A.M.1.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E., has been appointed transport manager of the North Thames Gas Board. Serving his apprenticeship with the Gnome and Le Rhone Engine Co., Mr. Caplin has successively been employed with Fiat (England, Ltd., Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., and Stewart and Arden, Ltd. He joined the Gas Light and -Coke Co. in 1930, was demobilized from the Services as a Lieut.-Colonel in 1946, and rejoined the A30
MR. E. DEAKIN, deputy general manager of Chesterfield Transport Department, has been offered the post of general manager in succession to MR. R. HOGOARD, who retires on August 31.
ROYAL VISITORS SEE BRAKE FACINGS MADE
DURING a three-day visit to Yorkshire, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburghcalled at Scandinavia Mills, Cleckheaton, where brake facings and other asbestos products are made by the British Belting and Asbestos Co., Ltd.
Spenborough Urban District Council has passed a resolution thanking Col. W. C. Fenton and his co-directors of the company for the excellent arrangements they made for the Royal visit.