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After 33 years' service with Halifax Passenger Transport Department, Mr. Harold Bell, chief inspector since 1955. is to retire shortly.
Mr. Archie Pressley, • manager of the machine tool section of the machinery department of Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., has retired after over 51. years' service with the company.
Mr. I. G. Osborne has been appointed North London divisional manager for the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., in succession to Mr. E. C. S. Barton .who has retired.
Mr. George H. Spear has been appointed manager of the new-Telehoist London factory at Sunbeam Road, Chase Road, N.W.I0. Three new representatives of the Telehoist sales organization are Mr. Harold Johnson, Mr. John Jenkins and Mr. V. Bettany.
Bernard Wardle (EverfleX), Ltd., p.v.c.-coated fabrics manufacturers, of Caernarvon, North Wales, have appointed two new directors to their board: Mr. W. Hossson, chief engineer, and Mr. J. W. Sutherland, who will be responsible for new developments and production.
Mr. P. A. Maclaren, export manager (Eastern) of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has been "appointed general manager of Karkhaneh Leyland (France), Ltd. Mr. J. A. R. Jackson, who was personal assistant to the general sales and service manager of Leyland Motors has been appointed export manager (Eastern), and Mr. C. W. B. Walker has been appointed personal assistant to the general sales and service manager.
Mr. Arthur Ruston has been appointed director for production for the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great .Britain), Ltd.. Mr. Ruston, who until recently was plant manager at GoodyearLuxembourg, succeeds. Mr. John Q. Shaul, and will be responsible for the overall production at the firm's two factories at Wolverhampton and Glasgow. Mr. Shaul. who has been director for production for Goodyear-Great Britain for the past three years, is returning to the U.S.A. Mr. C. F. Kearton, deputy chairman, has resigned from the board of Pinchin Johnson and Associates, Ltd., at his own request. The following appointments have been made: Mr. W. T. Branscombe is appointed deputy chairman, having relinquished his position as managing director; Mr. W. Gerard Daroux is appointed managing director; Mr. G. F. Ingham Clark is appointed commercial director: and Mr. W. S. Kerr is appointed a director of the company and will assume the position of sales director.
Mr. Joseph Lincoln Spedding Steel has been appointed chairman of Triplex Holdings, Ltd., in succession to Sir Graham Cunningham. Mr. Steel joined the Triplex Holdings Board in May last year, being at the same time appointed deputy chairman.
He was a member of the Board of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., from 1945 to 1960. and prior to that had been successively director, managing director and chairman of T.C.I.'s Alkali Division. Mr. Steel has been chairman of the British National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Overseas Trade Policy Committee of the Federation of British Industries for over 10 years.
Mr. Peter Wadham, branch manager. Wadhams, Ltd., Petersfield, has been appointed technical director on the board of Wadham (Holdings), Ltd. Mr. A. E. Osgood becomes branch manager at Pete rsfi eld Mr. Harold W. Stoneman has been appointed manager of the Producing Department of Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd.. which will undertake the exploration for gas and oil in specified areas.in the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. This follows the granting of licences to the company for this purpose by the Ministry of Power. M. Stoneman has been with the Esso group of cornpanies for 24 years.
Mr. A. Bolton has been re-elected chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association. The three vicechairmen are: Mr. W. Dodds, Mr. J. T. Steel, and Mr. E. A. Lamson. The treasurer is Mr. F. Broomfield. The area chairmen are: Mr. James Walker (East Midland); Mr. Dodds (Scotland); Mr. S. G. Bellamy (Western); Mr. T. Hoyle (Yorkshire); Mr. H. Allen (North Western); Mr. A. E. Brewer (South Wales); Mr. H. W. B. Richards (West Midland); and Mr. C. C. Hutchinson (London and Home Counties).
Obttuary
We regret to announce the death of Mr. George Beckett, general Manager of Darwen Corporation Transport Department. He was 60. Mr. -Beckett started his career as a bus conductor in Oldham just after the first World War, and had been general manager at Darwen for 16 years.
FEWER PASSENGERS
VIR. N. MORTON, general manager of IVI Sunderland Corporation transport undertaking, in his annual report, says there are no signs of a halt in the decline in the number of passengers using the corporation buses. Last year, he states. the number of passengers fell by million to nearly 82 million, while the number of bus miles covered fell by 309,000 to 6,567,000. Receipts, however, increased by nearly £12,000 to £896.217, and the trading profit was £96.890 aniinst t101.940 the previous year.