P. S. Turner, who with two other(special directors', K. Baumann and A. P. M. Fleming, had been on the Board since the previous January, was appointed sales director.

In 1937 the comptroller, E. H. W. Cooke, resigned to become managing director of the Daimler Company and a director of the B.S.A. He had done much to assist the necessary capital reorganization in connection with the formation of A.E.I. On Cooke's departure he was succeeded at M-V by his assistant, J. G. Lowe; J. H. Callaghan, accountant at Trafford Park and once a pupil of Paul Einert, went to take over the A.E.I, duties.

In 1930 the manager of the Sheffield works, G. H. Nelson, resigned to join the English Electric Company, of which he became managing director and later chairman; he was knighted in 1943. In his place G. H. Fletcher became manager as well as chief engineer at Sheffield, and he still holds these positions. Fletcher was elected President of the Comite Mixte, an international body composed of representatives of electrical and transport undertakings, in 1937, and he joined the Board of the M-V Export Company in 1948. His wide interests in engineering are shown by a number of academic and industrial appointments in the Sheffield district.

The contracts manager, J. C. Whitmoyer, retired in 1936 after thirty-two years' service; he had been responsible for some of the largest contracts ever carried out by the Company and had added a reputation for straight dealing to that of a keen golfer. His successor, G. T. King, handled many vital Government contracts during the 1939-45 war.

SCIENTIFIC HONOURS
Among the notable distinctions gained by M-V men, one of the most unusual was the award in 1929 of the Lamme Medal of the American I.E.E. to A. B. Field, the Company's consulting engineer. Field, who was for some years professor of mechanical engineering at the Manchester College of Technology, was the first Englishman to receive this honour, an acknowledgment of the importance of his early calculations on the eddy current loss in large slot-wound conductors.

In 1930 K. Baumann was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his paper "Some Considerations affecting the Future Development of the Steam Cycle". Other papers that have gained Hawksley Medals for M-V men are "The Economic Value of Increased Steam Pressure" by H. L. Guy (1927) and "The Utilization of Creep Test Data in Engineering Design" by R. W. Bailey (1935).