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MR. W. WHITTAKER, technical manager of Claude Rye Bearings, Ltd., has joined the board.
MR. C. S. LANE has been appointed chief designer for E. BoydeIl and Co., Ltd., manufacturers of Muir-Hill equipment. .
THE HON. ALEXANDER HOOD has joined the board of Petrofina (Great Britain), Ltd. He is a director of J. Henry Schroder and Co,, Ltd., the merchant bankers. Petrofina's south east region manager, MR. G. W. M. WIGGrigs, has been appointed motor fuel department manager at head office, changing places with MR. N. R. GRIFFITHS.
MR. R. WADE, assistant traffic manager of Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., last week took up a similar appointment with the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd. He is succeeded by MR. 0. C. MERCER, formerly assistant traffic manager of the Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd. MR. B. T. I-IANCOcK, previously assistant engineer of C.M.S., now holds a 'similar appointment with Thames Valley, and has been succeeded at C.M.S. by MR.
B. Sessford, who was formerly with the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.
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MR. M. M. V. CUSTANCE has been appointed a deputy secretary to the Minister of Transport. He replaces MR. A. H. WILSON, who is taking up a new appointment with the Ministry.
Aro. G. W. HUTSON has been appointed a member of the East Midlands Transport Users' Consultative Committee. Ma. E. W. CRAIG has become a member of the Scottish committee, and MAJ.-GEN. G. W. HOVEN has become a member of the West Midland committee.
MRW. T. N. WA LFORD, buying manager in Birmingham for the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Birmingham branch of the Purchasing Officers' Association. He succeeds MR. A. B. Smrrx, chief buyer and executive officer of the Rover Co., Ltd.
DR. C. D. J. STATHAM has become general sales manager of Oldham and Son, Ltd. He was previously in charge of mining division sales. Ma. T. J. MARTIN, previously controller of the S.L.I. sales division, becomes purchasing manager, and MR. H. C. Eramortos, formerly export sales manager, takes over as home and export sales manager in the S.L.I.