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Men in the News
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MR. W. E. PEARS(IN has resigned from the board of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
Mss. G. R. FRANCIS has been promoted to the post of traction engineer, British United Traction. Ltd.
MR. W. J. MILLER, commercial assistant of the Liverpool Transport Department, retired last week after 48 years with the department MR. F. L. SNOW has been appointed assistant district manager, motor division, in the Perivale (Middlesex) branch of Kerry's (Great Britain), Ltd.
MR. R. B. FRASER has been elected a director of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd., in charge of manufacturing. He succeeds M. J. BLARE Mtorm_EroN, who is to retire.
MR. JOHN BOARDMAN, deputy chairman of the Burtonwood Engineering Co., Ltd., has returned from a four-week course in business management in the United States.
MR. JOHN C. HURN, general technical consultant of Crypton Equipment, Ltd., has been appointed manager of the company's new educational and training MR. R. FELCATE has been appointed sales executive (northern accounts) for Rubery Owen and Co., Ltd. MR. R. MAXWELL SINCLAIR has been appointed motor division European representative for the company.
MR. H. H. LANSDELL has relinquished his position as adVertising manager of Brown Brothers, Ltd., but will continue as a consultant. MR. F. A. GREENSLADE has been promoted to the post of advertising manager and MR. R. Wynn takes over his former position as assistant.
MR. GEOFFREY COZENS, formerly managing director of Commer Cars, Ltd., and still a member of the board of directors, is to leave on September 22 for a 35,000-mile tour of commercial vehicle markets throughout the world. He will visit 12 countries in a 44-month-long investigation.
MR. G. A. &firm, managing director of John Smith (Keighley), Ltd., a subsidiary of Thomas W. Ward, Ltd., was succeeded by MR. FREDERICK JOHNSON this week as general manager of the company and as a director. Mr. Smith will still be associated with the concern in a consultative capacity.
MR. T. R. R. HARRIES, Swindon district traffic superintendent, Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., was last week presented with gifts from his colleagues before leaving for a new position as Plymouth area traffic superintendent of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd. Mr. Harries has been chairman of the Swindon group of the institute of Transport for the past 18 months. His successor at Swindon is MR. D. F. HOWE.
c 16 MR, W. ADAMS, IOUT8 superintendent of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., is to leave on October 1 to join Southdown Motor Services, Ltd. His successor is MR. C. EmarEToN, at present assistant traffic assistant.
MR. JOSEPH GERALD GRIFFITHS, a British Road Services cadet who was awarded a Henry Spurrier memorial scholarship by the Institute of Transport recently, left for America on Monday to take up his scholarship. He will study the operation of road transport as a freight feeder to air transport. Mr. Griffiths, who is 29, plans to return on October 29. He is employed by the B.R.S. Preston district depot.
OBITUARY WJE regret to record the deaths of MR. VV W. E. ROGERS, MR. W. A. HAZLETT, MR. ARTHUR W. Cox and MR. I. D. 1MILNER.
Mr, Rogers, who was formerly general manager of Solex, Ltd., was one of the original members of Solex when it became a separate company in 1925.
Mr. Hazlett was from 1937 to 1955 managing director of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Cox, who was 78, was in business for 40 years as a haulier at Llangynidr, Brecknockshire, South Wales, Mr. Milner was manager of Ferodo, Ltd., in the Irish Republic. He died in Dublin at the age of 53. He had been with Ferodo for 33 years, and served in London before taking up his appointment in Eire in June of last year.