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MR. E. RODGERS has been appointed traffic manager of Pleasley and Pleasley Hill Co-operative Society.
Ma. D. P. F. GRAHAM has resigned his position as advertisement manager of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., to join Associated-Rediffusion, Ltd. His successor is MR. R. A. ADAMS.
MR. W. H. MALLETT has been appointed deputy to the labour relations officer of the London Transport Executive, with the grade of principal executive assistant. He joined London Transport in 1930.
MR. I. B. GARRETT has joined the board of management of British Road Services in a part-time advisory capacity. A former senior officer of B.R.S., having been manager of the Eastern and South-Eastern Divisions and chief officer (organization), Mr. Garrett was until recently assistant traffic adviser (freight) to the British Transport Commission. MR. L. D. S. GARDEN, manager of the 'Lothian and Borders branch of B.R.S., has become traffic officer of the Scottish Division.
MR. FOSTER M. STEWART Ofl Saturday assumed the position of managing director of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd. He succeeded MR. G. R. MCNEAR, who held the position from 1950. and who will remain for some time as a director in an advisory and consultative capacity, Mr. Stewart was, last year, loaned •by the United States Rubber Co., the main stockholders of North British Rubber, to co-ordinate the planning for the modernization of the Edinburgh company's plant. For the past four months he was Mr. McNear's assistant. Mr. McNear will return to the United States to take up an executive post with the American company. SIR VICTOR RANCE'S., K.B.E., M.P., has been appointed a director of Pirelli, Ltd.
Ma. G. • JACKSON, commercial sales manager of Sherwood Bros., Ltd., Dar lington, has retired. He joined the company 25 years ago.
MR. W. J. FARRAND has been appointed manager of the food engineering department of Henry Simon, Ltd., which is responsible for the supply of bulk-flour delivery vehicles.
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FINES of £10 were imposed at Grantham, last week, on the owners of a bus carrying too many standing passengers and which was in the charge of an unlicensed conductress. The owners were Wilfred Joseph Simmons
and his wife, Eveline Simmons, of Holmelea, Great Gonerby.
A police witness said that 19 passengers, including nine children, were standing in a 42-seat bus.
The husband was fined £3, and the wife E2, for each offence. The conductress, Sheila Stevens, 13 Sydney Street, Grantham, was fined £1• for not having a licence.