National Bus Company appointments
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R. St. C. Sandal!, 44, has been appointed secretary of the National Bus Company: D. W. Glassborow, 48, chief planning and development officer; and T. M. Glass Press and public relations officer. Mr. Sandall has been employed since 1959 in the headquarters secretariat of British Electric Traction Group of Companies, with particular responsibility for the work of BET Federation Ltd., of which he has held the secretaryship for the past two years—an appointment he is retaining temporarily until other arrangements are made. Mr. Glassborow, the author of several papers on transport economics, in 1955 became head of economic research at the Transport Holding Company, a post he has now relinquished. Mr. Glass joined Edinburgh Corporation Transport in 1957 as public relations officer, and was re-classified in 1963 as principal assistant (special projects).
K. P. Brazier, 39, has been appointed traffic manager of ACT Ltd. Mr. Brazrer will co-ordinate the flow of containers between the regional bases and Tilbury. as well as to assist in ACT's overall planning of transport operations. He was formerly transport manager of I. Leftley Ltd., a Transport Development Group haulage company based at Barking. Essex. An occasional lecturer in road transport operations for evening class students, Mr. Brazier was at one time himself a London Transport Board Administration trainee, later holding a variety of positions with the Board mainly in its Central Bus Operating Department.
C. M. Perry, formerly traffic assistant at the Acton branch of BRS Parcels Ltd., has been appointed branch manager at Luton.
R. D. Shaw, accounts assistant in the Scottish area office, has been appointed Scottish area accountant of the company.
George Brook has been elected chairman of Ribble Motor Services Ltd. in succession to A. F. R. Carling, who has resigned from the board. Mr. Carling, who has been a director since 1956, and was managing director until 1960. was elected chairman temporarily in April 1968 when the company became a subsidiary of the THC. W. Leese has been appointed a director, and will continue to hold the office of general manager to which he was appointed last year. Mr. Brook is a director of other subsidiaries of the National Bus Company. and is chairman of Ribble's neighbouring companies, Crosville Motor Services Ltd., Cumberland Motor Services Ltd., and North Western Road Car Co. Ltd, B. C. Bruce-Gardner has been elected chairman of both Metropolitan-Cammell Ltd. and MetropolitanCammell-Weymann Ltd.. the boards having been reconstituted following the acquisition by Gemmel' Laird and Co. Ltd, of the Vickers Ltd. shareholding in Metropolitan-Cammell (Holdings) Ltd. A. H. Sansome has been appointed managing director of Metropolitan-Cammell Ltd. and S. B. Holliwell and W. Scott remain as directors. J. E. Walker joins the board. Mr. Holliwell. who has relinquished his appointment as general works manager of Metropolitan-Ca mmell. becomes general manager of Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann. R. T. Knowles and Mr. Scott remain as directors of M-C-W: W. E. Hicks joins the board.
N. A. Bailey, 32, has been appointed general sales manager of the Commercial Vehicle Division of Stewart and Arden (part of the Henly Organisation). Mr. Bailey has been service manager and deputy branch manager at Wembley Commercial Vehicle Headquarters (Queensbury Road) since 1966. Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, has appointed D. Holmes to be his Principal Private Secretary in succession to J. A. L. Gunn, who is being promoted Assistant Secretary.
John R. Kircheis, 51, has been appointed chairman of the Mobil Oil Company in succession to the late J. C. Gridley. Mr. Kircheis, who joined Mobil in 1946, will continue as chief executive of the company A. C. Vincent, company secretary of George Ewer and Co. Ltd.. has been appointed a director with effect from January 6.
C. F. Elms has been appointed managing director of the John Thompson Transporter Division with effect from February 1. The board recently announced that it intends to invest in the region of Elm in a development scheme of the division's Bilston works. Mr. Elms was until recently a divisional general manager of the Plessey Company.
W. G. Thorpe, 59. a life-long railwayman who was one of two vice-chairmen of the British Railways Board, has been appointed deputy chairman as from January 1. Under the Transport Act 1968 the Board now consists of a chairman and between nine and 15 members, from whom the Minister of Transport may, after consultation with the chairman. appoint deputy and vice-chairmen.
Lord Chesham, executive vice-chairman of the RAC and chairman of the British Road Federation, has been elected a member of the council of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. Lord Chesham is well-known to CM readers as chairman of the annual Fleet Management Conference. Also elected to the IAM council: Olaf Lambert, director of operations. AA. and Maj. Gen. E. H. G. Lonsdale, the army's Transport Officer in Chief.
J. T. E. Robinson has been appointed a director of the Rhondda Transport Co. Ltd. and of Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches Ltd, in place of Col. Sir Godfrey Llewellyn, Bart., who has retired. Sir Godfrey, who founded the Neath and Cardiff Company in 1930, had been chairman and managing director prior to its acquisition by BET in 1953, and had retained the managing directorship up to his retirement. He had been a director of the Rhondda Company since 1959.