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Ma. W. BUDDELL has recently joined Oldsmobile Distributors, Ltd., as general manager of the company's commercial-vehicle department.
Well-informed banking circles in Berlin have confirmed a recent report of the impending resignation of Sirs DETERDING as director-general of the Royal Dutch Co.
MR. ROBERT BARR, chairman of A.R.O. Yorkshire Area, was defeated by 230 votes in the municipal elections at Leeds, where he was Conservative candidate in the Woodhouse Ward.
MR. D. F. BEAUCHOP. manager of the Leyland branch in New Zealand, has arrived in England on a two-months' visit, and will spend considerable time at the headquarters factories of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
A presentation has been made to MR. GEORGE BISSETT, chief electrical engineer of W. Alexander and Sons. Ltd., who is leaving to take up an appointment as chief engineer to Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd.
We are pleased to learn that MR. II. S. CHAPLIN, general sales manager of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., of Inchinnan, has made such good recovery from a recent operation that he hopes to attend the forthcoming Scottish Show.
MR. E. H. SIDDALL has been appointed manager of the Dublin branch of Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Lincoln, in succession to MR. T. C. IvEs. For the past seven years he has been attached to the company's Glasgow branch. Mr. Ives, who has managed the Dublin branch for the past 12 years, is leaving Ireland at his own request and is not severing his connection with the company, which has covered a period of 36 years.
Road-transport operators will be vitally affected by anew move of the L.M.S. Railway CO. With a view to improving its passenger-traffic organization in West Yorkshire, the company has created a new post, that of district passenger manager at Leeds, to which MR. H. A. flootcs has been appointed; The area, which includes 154 stations, was formerly supervised from Manchester.
• MR. Earn REA is to join the staff' of R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd., Dursley. He has been appointed agricultural adviser to the company and its associated interests, and takes up his duties on February 1, 1937. He has been agricultural organizer for Gloucestershire since 1931 and has been responsible for the county's educational service, both theoretical and practical, in this sphere.
MR. WILLOUGHBY BULLOCK has resigned his post as deputy to the chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, and MR. E. RuSSF.T:I. GURNEY has been appointed to assist in dealing with applications for goods licences in the Yorkshire Area.
MR. LF.WIS CHAPMAN has resigned from the board of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., so that he can devote his whole time to the greatly increased activity of the steel com panies in the B.S.A. group. He is managing director of William Tessop and Sons, Ltd., and J. J. Saville and Co., Ltd., both being controlled by the B.S.A. concern. With a greater demand for special steels, particularly for oil engines and aircraft, and for the machine-tool industry, both these concerns are playing an increasingly important part in B.S.A. affairs.
Northern Authority Requires Publication of All Applications.
At a sitting of the Northern Licensing Authority, in Stockton, last week, Sir John Maxwell announced that, whereas, in the past, certain types of application had been granted after investigation in his office and without publication, these would, in future, be published and dealt with in the ordinary way.
The applications referred to are in connection, with variations involving the deletion from a licence of two or more authorized machines and their replacement by a lesser number of vehicles of similar aggregate unladen weight. The ruling also applies to licences in respect of vehicles to be taken over with a business.