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• MR. E. PARKER, who has left the Little Horton Garage Co., Bradford, is now a director of Motor Services (Bradford), Ltd., Thornton, Bradford, MR. J. McDowELL, chief purchasing agent of the Dunlop Rubber Co , Ltd., at Fort Dunlop, has been elected president of the Ulster Association of Birmingham and District.
MISS P. B. BRIDGE, secretary of the East Lancashire Road Transport Association, has returned home after an operation and is progressing favourab13, MR. DAVID ATKINSON, transport manager of Hawick Co-operative Society, has been appointed a magistrate for the burgh of Hawick. He was co-opted a member of the town council two years ago.
MR. JOHN J. IVIcCianiv, B.Sc. (Engineering), A.M.I.Mech.E., has been appointed frOm Fort Dunlop to be manager of general planning and liaison in the new Dunlop factory at Speke, Liverpool. Since joining the Dunlop concern as a trainee in 1927, he has been enaaged in tyre and sports-goods production, material control, liaison with overseas factories, and labour relations. On a number of occasions during the war he was loaned to the Ministry of Supply to recruit labour in Ireland for the tyre industry as a whole.
MR. V. E. BRIDGEN and MR. C. H. WARRILOW have been appointed joint managing directors of Godfrey Davis, Ltd. The Rootes Group has agreed to release them from their previous positions as senior executives. The new appointments are Understood to foreshadow a big reorganization and expansion of the business of which MR. GODFREY DAVIS is chairman.
MR. W. H. 0. STEER has resumed his duties as district manager of the district office and warehouse which the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has re-opened at 47, Streatham Hill, London, S.W.2, with the object of adding still further to the efficiency of its service and distribution in the London district south of the Thames and in Southern England.
MR. C. F. BarsioNE has been appointed Midland branch manager of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., and has taken up his duties at the cornpatty's office at Lansdowne. House, 41, Water Street, Birmingham, 3. MR. E. V. PANNELL Will be retiring at the end of the year after 34 years' service with the company.
MR. L. P. LORD has been elected chairman of the board of directors and managing director of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd. He joined the company as works director in March, 1938, and on the death of Lord Austin became deputy chairman and joint managing
director. MR. J. GitisoN .1ARVIE and MAJOR A. C. HERRING, V.C., A.C.A., have been appointed directors of the company. The former is well known in the City as chairman of the United Dominions Trust. He served forrn two years as Regional Port Director in the nortlY-western area. Major Herring is also well known in City circles as a partner in Messrs. Laing and Cruikshank, stockbrokers.
COUNCILLOR R. H. Sara has been appointed chairman of Newcastle-onTyne Transport and Electricity Committee, in succession to Alderman G. Dixon. COUNCILLOR H. Simm is the new vice-chairman.
MR. L. R. Mont, deputy highways engineer at Leeds since .1937, has been promoted highways engineer for the city, a post in which he succeeds MR. H. G. FIRTH, who is retiring after nearly 50 years' service in the corporation's highways department.
MR. Si PERRY has been appointed sales manager of the general upholstery section in the Dunlopillo division of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., which he joined in 1930 from MM. Eugene Marechal et Fils, of Venissieux, France. His headquarters, we understand, will be in London. .
ALDERMAN J. D. RINKS, of Darlington, has been appointed chairman of the Northern Area of the Municipal Transport Association. He has been chairman for six years of Darlington Gas, Electricity and Transport Committee.
LIEUT,-COLONEL FRED REEVE S, R.A.O.C., formerly deputy district manager in Leeds for the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has been mentioned in despatches. He joined the Dunlop concern in 1925 at Liverpool, where he was service chief when appointed, in 1934, as commercial-vehicle salesman in Manchester. He went to Leeds to lake over his appointment• as deputy district manager in 1938.
MR. M. W. E. WILD, N.D.A., who represented the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., on farm-tyre sales until May, 1940, when he joined the R.A.F., has rejoined the company. Serving as a Flight Sergeant and later promoted Warrant Officer, he suffered serious injuries in August, 1940, when the aircraft in which he was the reargunner crashed. It was not until early 1942 that he was finally discharged from hospital; the following September he had to "bale out" after a raid on Bremen. For nearly a week he evaded capture but was eventually caught and placed in Stalag 344, where he took an active part in helping to organize a Farmers' Club, and was one of the tutors on agricultural subjects ;r1 the Stalag School.