Sir Archibald Ross, the former British Ambassador to Sweden, has
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succeeded Goesta Nilsson as chairman of Scania-Vabis (Great Britain) Ltd, subsidiary of Saab-Scania of Sweden.
Leonard R. Williams, manager, power and industrial division, General Motors Ltd, has been appointed manager, power and industrial, General Motors Overseas Corporation. Mr Williams joined the overseas vehicle department in 1936.
Eric Shaw, 43, has joined Abel Systems Ltd at its Tupton, Chesterfield, unit as engineering executive, from Rolls-Royce.
R. Beckham, distribution executive, FiHM Foods Ltd. and F. Moore, transport manager British Celanese Ltd., have been elected vice-chairmen of the Freight Transport Association. J. Foster, traffic manager, Chance Bros. Ltd, and F. Potts, transport controller, William Timpson Ltd, have been re-elected as vice-chairmen.
George W. Henshilwood, 34 has been promoted sales director of Kismet.
Lord Stokes, managing director of BLMC, has been installed as the new president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
G. R. Palliator has been appointed manager, Basingstoke branch, BRS Parcels Ltd. He was previously a traffic examiner with the company's southern office.
E. Hutchinson, hitherto assistant traffic officer (planning), Tyneside PTE, has been appointed to the new post of area operations planner, and is replaced by R. W. Davis, assistant traffic officer to the South Shields division. J. G. Moffett, chief inspector, succeeds Mr Davis, and T. V. Pybum, deputy chief inspector, has been promoted to chief inspector.
John Jeffreys, Middlesbrough branch manager of the British Steel Corporation's supplies and transport division, has been elected president of Teesside Chamber of Commerce. He replaces A. Batty (Head Wrightson and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough), G. C. Smith, general manager of East Midland Motor Services Ltd, is to become gm of Southdown Motor Services Ltd in succession to L. S. Higgins, now with the Maidstone company. Mr Smith started his career with Eastern Counties Omnibus Company in 1929.
John F. Maxon, 37, has been appointed Reliant Motor Co Ltd fleet sales manager. Mr Moxon served his apprenticeship with Morris Commercial Cars Ltd before gaining technical sales experience with BMC.
OBITUARY We record with regret the death of John Edmund Dorey. Mr Dorey, 60, who has died in a Manchester hospital after a long illness, was national transport manager, milk group, of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.