Mr. Wray, who lives at 68 Ragged Hall Lane, St. Albans, will be responsible for the management of the department. excluding the research department. Responsible for research and advanced development will be Mr. H. V. Beck, of 6 Manland Way, Harpenden, who has been appointed Research Manager.

Mr. Wray was educated at Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined Marconi Instruments in 1944 and was appointed company physicist in 1952. Later he took charge of the design of a wide range of multi-channel microwave test equipment, and atomic power station instrumentation.

In 1960 he was appointed deputy chief engineer. Apart from his company activities, Mr. Wray is a member of various committees of the British Standards Institution dealing with electronic measuring techniques. He is also chairman of the Programme and Papers Committee of the British Institution of Radio Engineers, and a member of the institution's council.

Mr. Wray was first elected to St. Albans Rural Council in 1960. and was elected chairman last June. A Conservative, he represents St. Michael's Ward. Aged 38, he is married and has two young children.

Mr. Beck obtained his degree in physics at King's College, London. Following three years service with a chemical engineering company, where he investigated the physical properties of plastics, he was appointed Physicist with the Cambridge Instrument Company.

In 1957 he joined the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, as Head of the Electronics Section, with responsibility also for the second-year electricity practical class. He joined Marconi Instruments as chief of advanced development in January, 1962.

Mr. Beck is chairman of the I.E.E. professional group for electronic measuring instruments and techniques, and a member of the Electronics Divisional Board. He has written a number of papers on practical class work.