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MR. P. R. BLAKE, who has been associated with the B.E.T. group for 44 years, is retiring on June 30 from his appointment as managing director of South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., and Swansea Improvements and Tramways Co., Ltd. He will, however, remain a director of both.
MR. G. T. FREEMAN has been appointed advertising manager of Dunlop's tyre group in succession to MR. C. L. Swill, the new general advertising manager. ,Mr. Freeman, who was sales development manager at Fort Dunlop, joined the company in 1925. He was transferred to Fort Dunlop last August after being resident representative for the Channel Islands.
. MR. R. W. SEW ILL, former national director of the Road Haulage Association and now an executive of Aims of Industry, recently received a presentation from MR, FRANK MILTON, northern area secretary of the Road Haulage Association, on behalf of area secretaries and the headquarters staff of the R.H.A. Mr. Milton spoke of the magnificent fight put up by Mr. Sewill against nationalization. MR. HORACE WYATT traced his association with Mr. Scwill over the past 21 years.
DR. H. J. GOUGH, C.B., M.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S., the new president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, will be welcomed by the reception committee of the Institution on May 31 at that body's summer meeting in Liverpool. He was superintendent of the National Physical Laboratory Engineering Department in 1930, and has received many honours and awards, including the Crompton Medal of the former Institution of Automobile Engineers. In 1938 he was the first Director of Scientific Research to the War Office, and in 1942 became Director-General of Scientific Research and Development to the Ministry of Supply. In 1945 he received his present aPpointment as engineer-inchief of Lever Brothers and Unilever, Ltd.