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MR. CHARLES F. JOHNSON, general nanager of the Sunbeam Trolleybus Co., Ltd., has been appointed a director.
Ma. T. A. TEMPLE has succeeded MR. H. Roy LEACH as chairman of Gaudy, Ltd. Mr. Leach remains a director. He is moving to the south of England.
MR. F. V. THOROGOOD, special representative of the southern automotive division of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., has complete140 years' service with the company.
• MR. R. DEAN-AVERNS, M.LEVIech.E., M.S.A.E., the well-known designer and engineer, who joined Scarnmell Lorries, Ltd:, at Watford, early this year, has lost his right leg by amputation after an unsuccessful lumbar operation. He is in Ward 7, Peace Memorial Hospital, Watford, but hopes soon togo to Roehampton to be fitted with an artificial limb.
MR. E. DEAKIN, general manager of Chesterfield Transport Department, has been elected chairman of the Sheffield Section of the Institute of Transport. MR. G. I. ASTON and MR. C. F. LAWRENCE KING have been elected vicechairmen, MR. W. BINIGLEY remaining as honorary secretary and treasurer, with MR. P. J. CHESHIRE as his assistant. The immediate past president is Ma. L. MATTHEWS.
MR. CHARLES L. SLADDEN, 0.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.T., M.I.ProdE., is retiring under the age limit on August 14, after completing 39 years with the Metropolitan Asylums Board and the London County Council He was engineer superintendent with the M.A.B. for 15 years, until the work of this body was absorbed by the L.C.C. under the Local Government Act, 1929, when he was placed in charge of the mechanical equipment repairs branch, responsible for the acquisition, maintenance, disposal and sometimes design of the Council's fleet of vehicles. In 1951, he
• Was appointed transport officer to the Council.
• MR. C. K. EDWARDS, M,S.A.E., who has been chief engineer of Shelvoke and Drewry, -Ltd., since 1936, has retired and will Shortly .commenze practice as a consulting engineer with headquarters in Letchworth, Herts. He was formerly with the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., whom he joined in 1912, rising to chief designer and engineer. He was responsible for the design of the K, NS., the first one-step bus, the first covered-top bus, and the first pneumatic-tyred bus of the former London General Omnibus Co., Ltd. He has also been chief engineer of Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., and of Guy Motors, Ltd.
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M. I. U. COOKE has been appointed assistant export manager of A.C.V. SaIes, Ltd., in succession to MR. W. I. K.
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CDR. R. SCOTT-MILLER has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport, MR. J. A. BOYD CARPENTER.
MR. W. E. A. Cunum has been appointed general service manager of the British Motor Corporation. He has been general manager of the cars branch of Morris Motors, Ltd., since 1948.
MR. J. W. MARTIN, London divisional sales manager of Shell-Mex and &P., Ltd., since 1951, has succeeded MR. S. YORSTON as sales manager, Western division. Mr. Yorston has retired after 33 years with the company.
MR. D. 0. SARA, Exeter district manager of the Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., has retired. At a luncheon held in Bristol, the company presented him with a gold watch to mark the completion of 40 years' service.
DORMOBILE A CONTRACT CARRIAGE?
WHEN Archibald McCallum, WoodII' bank, by Campbeltown, appeared before Campbeltown Sheriff Court, last week, charged with using a Dormobile as a contract carriage without a public service vehicle licence, application was made for the case to be adjourned until September, because it would require close study,