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C.M. PERSONALITIES MR. WILLIAM A. SMITH, A.M.I.Mech.E., F.Inst.F., F.Inst.P., who
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is known throughout several engineering and commercial circles as Whirlwind Smith, was appointed general sales and service manager of Armstrong-Saurer Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., on July 1st of last year. He is 36 years of age, but despite his comparative youth, his career has been most successful, probably because of his organizing ability and his happy faculty for overcoming reverses. His judgment, of both men and engineering products, is quick and accurate. Mr. Smith has over 20 patents to his credit, and has formed three companies, all of which assumed considerable importance, and which he has disposed of on favourable terms to his shareholders. He is the unusual combination of successful inventor, engineer, and hard-headed business man. During the war he rose to Regimental Sergeant Major and later was commissioned and commanded a machinegun company. Mr. Smith organized and built up in three months the sales and service department of Armstrong-Saurer Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., and in a similar period took orders approximating £150,000 for oil•engined vehicles. He regards the compression
ignition engine withalmost idealistic fervour.