Airspeed Limited of Christchurch Aerodrome, Hampshire, announces that Major Hereward de Havilland, D.S.O., hasjoined the Board of Directors of the Company and he and Mr J. Liddell arc appointed Joint Managing Directors. They will share the responsibility for the company's administration. Mr A. Townsley, as works director, will devote all his attention to increasing production activities, which include the contribution made to de Havilland manufacture as a whole. The positions of Mr A. E. Hagg, as technical director, Mr P. E. Gordon‐Marshall, as sales director, and Messrs F. T. Hearle and F. E. N. St Barbe, as de Havilland directors on the Airspeed board, remain unchanged.