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MR, C. H. HARRIS has been appointed works manager of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He has served the company for 32 years.
Ma. A. F. AIKEN, manager of the metal foundry of the Hoyt Metal Co., of Great Britain, Ltd., has retired, after occupying that position for 32 years.
MR. G. C. CAMPBELL-TAYLOR, general manager of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for the past 23 years, is retir
ing at the end of September on account of ill-health.
After 46 years' service, Ma. J. McDowm has retired from his post as chief purchasing agent to the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. He is succeeded by MR. J. P. ANDERSON.
After a 35,000-mile trip, principally by air, MR. EWART GUY, a director of Guy 'Motors, lstd., has returned to Wolverhampton from South Africa. During his visit he interviewed every Guy operator and practically every potential customer in South Africa and Kenya.
MR. J. H. HEMINGWAY, superintendent of the South-western trolleybus district of London Transport, has retired. He helped to start the first trolleybus service in Bradford in 1911, and drew on his Yorkshire experience when the London United Tramways began conversion to trolleybuses in 1931.
MR. HAROLD J. CAMPLIN has been appointed manager of the London sales and service depot of Albion Motors, Ltd., at Brentfield Road, Willesden, N.W.10, in succession to MR. EDWARD M. MELVILLE, who has become manager of the depot at Booth Road, Bedminster, Bristol, 7. Mr. Camplin has for many years been manager at Bristol, MR. H. J. HOLMES, until recently Director of Tyres at the Ministry of Supply, has returned to the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. He was the company's district manager for South-east London
when he was seconded to the Ministry in August, 1941, as chief assistant to Lord Rothes. In June, 1945, Mr. Holmes succeeded Lord Rothes as Director of Tyres.
MR. HARRY AUSTIN, brother of the late Lord Austin, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his entry into the British motor industry. In 1906 he came to the Longbridge Works of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., as superintendent of the chassis-erecting shop, and has been engaged in that work ever since. A few weeks ago he superintended the production of the millionth Austin.
MR: T. R. Nteot.t., South-western area sales manager of Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., has been appointed service manager of the Daimler group of companies. During the war he served for six years in R.E.M.E. and was released with the rank of lieutenant
colonel. Previously, he was assistant service manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd. Ma. C. G. OLIVER has resigned from his position of service manager to the Daimler Co., Ltd., to enter business on his own account.
MR. H. C. MALLEIT, managing director, and Mr. F. M. S. BEST, sales manager, of Tilling-Stevens, Ltd., and Vulcan Motors, Ltd., have recently completed a 4,000-mile tour of the Continent, visiting their distributors in Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. The two companies have already made large shipments of
vehicles to Europe, and the potentialities of the European market were thoroughly investigated by Mr. Mallett and Mr. Best. They found that British commercial-vehicle manufacturers were ahead of their American competitors in shipments of vehicles to the Continent, and that overseas distributors were taking the necessary steps to give good after-sales service.
The retirement of MR. J. &WARMAN, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.A.E., from the posi lion of road motor engineer to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co.. is announced. Mr. Shearman joined the old London and North-Western Railway Co. in 1903 as a premium apprentice, and received an appointment under the road motor superintendent of the L.N.W.R. after the 1914-18 war. The company's fleet then consisted of about 200 vehicles. After the formation of the L.M.S.R., Mr. Shearman became road motor engineer to that company, with a fleet of 1,447 vehicles. The fleet has now grown to over 10,000 units. Mr. Shearman took a large part in the preparation of the original design of the mechanical horse, and was responsible for the experiment with vehicles that would run on either road or rail. He is a railway-nominated director of the Ribble, Cumberland, and Crosville companies. He is succeeded by MR. W. E. YATES, M.1.A.E., who has been his assistant since 1925. Mr. Yates is L.M.S. representative on the Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee.