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MR. S. JUPP has been appointed advertising manager of the Wayne V. Myers Co., Ltd.
MR, W. J. EN/Ea:kap has taken the place of MR. F. WHITTOCK, who has resigned, on the London Transport Users' Consultative Committee.
ALD. ARTHUR LANG TON has been re-elected chairman of Bournemouth Transport Committee. CLLR. LT.-COL. A. L. PARIS has become vice-chairman.
MR. J. H. Wate-.1-tr has been appointed home sales manager of F. Perkins, Ltd. He joined the company in 1946. Before the war he was transport manager of Evans Sons, Lescher and Webb, Ltd.. Liverpool.
MB. W. G. A. HALL rolling stock engineer of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd. He takes up his appointment on June 16.
MR. LEONARD M.ATTHEWS has been elected chairman of Direct Motor Services, Ltd., Sheffield, the group organization of Sheffield and district hauliers. He was until recently chairman of the South Yorkshire Area of the Road Haulage Association. MR. H. J. TUFF-NELL is the new deputy chairman of D.M.S.
SIR HERBERT MATIIIEWS has been elected president. and MR. FREDERICK deputy •president of the Institute of Traffic Administration. New vicepresidents are MR. E. P. PUTTICK, MR. R. P. BOWYER. MR. A. LAWES COLE, MR. L. C. HARRISON and MR. C. J. PARKER. MR. B. R. MILLER has become chairman of the national council, the vice-chairmen of which are now Ma.
E. H. BURN. MR. T. H. CAREY and MR.
F. N. WHITE, Mr. Harrison is honorary treasurer and MR. C: R. GRIFFIN honorary secretary. MR. R. W. HEAms has been appointed a director of Willowbrook, Ltd.
MR. D. HARDY. general manager of General Motors, Ltd., has flown by B.O.A.C. to New York for a pleasurecum-business trip.
MR. R. FOGELMAN has been elected president of the National Association of Tyre Specialists. MR. W. LIMAN has become vice-president.
GLASGOW-SCRABSTER SERVICE
pSERVICE from Glasgow to i Scrabster is being introduced on June 23 by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., in co-operation with Highland Omnibuses, Ltd. The return fare will
be L3 3s. 9d. Coaches will leave Glasgow on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week.
IN A LINE OR TWO
In 1951, A/B Volvo, Sweden, produced 6,600 goods vehicles, 1,000 public service vehicles and 4,700 tractors.
Contracts had been received by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.. for a special military vehicle, said Mr. G. N. Vansittart, chairman, at the company's annual meeting, last week.
The chairman of the Road l-laulagc
Association's Northants sub-area recently organized a visit of 30 Northampton operators and tyre distributors to the Gravesend factories of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co.. Ltd.