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MR. H. W. EVANS, has been appointed to represent the Hermetic Rubber
• Co., Ltd., in London and the Home Counties.
MR. H. A. NIDA, of United Automobile Service', Ltd„ has been appointed assistant engineer of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., from September 1.
MR. W. A. BusramENre, Minister of Communicatiops in the Jamaican Government, spent the last day of his recent visit to this country in an inspection of London's transport undertaking.
MR. KENNETH HORNE, sales director of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., left on Tuesday for Bermuda, and will return via New York.
MR. P. T. SOMERVILLE-LARGE has been appointed acting chief engineer of Coras lompair Eireann, in the absence, through illness, of MR. T. R. LEONARD, chief engineer.
MR. A. C. LEWIS, Glasgow branch manager of the British Wagon Co., Ltd., has been appointed manager for Scotland. MR, C. P. GURREY has also been appointed representative of the company, working from the Edinburgh office.
MR. COLIN C. BAILEY, of the bodybuilding department of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is joining Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., as director and general manager. He has travelled extensively and has a wide knowledge of bodybuilding requirements in overseas markets.
MR. R. E. BROWN, sales director of Duple Moto? Bodies, Ltd.. left England in the "Empress of Canada" on Tuesday, on a trip to Canada and the United States. He will investigate the latest methods of construction and equipment used in passenger vehicles, particularly those for the South American markets. He will return in the" Queen Elizabeth" towards the end of this month.
MR. B. F. KINGSTON has been appointed advertising manager of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co.. Ltd. Until recently, he was sales representative at the company's North London branch. MR. H. J. WErroN, district manager for Birmingham, has been appointed manager for Scotland, in succession to MR. C. G. Cstaausti. who has become branch sales supervisor at Brentford.
MR. GEORGE ORTON, who, as stated last week, has become public relations officer to the Road Transport Executive, left his former position as chief officer for public relations, Western Region, British Railways, on the 45th anniversary of his entry into railway service. Appropriately, he began his career in the publicity department, subsequently working in many others, but returned to publicity in 1923.
MR. F. C. G. MILLs, F.B.I., M.I.T.A., has been appointed south-eastern divisional manager of the Road Transport Executive. The names of five other divisional managers were published last week. In 1931, Mr. Mills joined Carey, Davis and Thomas, Ltd., which later became Transport Services, Ltd. (now absorbed by the British Transport Commission). He is chief executive officer of the company and chairman of others.
MR. J. S. Wills, M.INs-r.T., managing director of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., and chairman and/ or director of man' bus companies in this group, vice-president and member of the Council of the Institute of Transport, and past chairman of the Public Transport Association, is a comparatively young man, who has achieved success in many directions by a combination of knowledge and business acumen with a most pleasant personality.Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, he joined the B.E.T. organization in 1922 and was secretary to a number of companies in the group between 1924 and 1926. He then became general manager of the East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., at Hull, until 1931, when he was appointed a director of that company and of several others associated with B.E.T. It will be interesting to see what position he will occupy if road passenger transport eventually becomes nationalized.