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10th October 1975
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Haulier to sit in judgment

FOR the first time a haulier will pass judgment on other hauliers when Bernard J. Foster takes up his appointment as Northern Licensing Authority in December.

Mr Foster, who succeeds J. A. T. Hanlon, is 62 and started in the industry at the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was appointed coal transport officer of the Kidderminster Co operative Society.

In 1955 he bought a coal and haulage business and formed Foster and Wilson Ltd. He joined the RHA in 1956 and became Dudley sub-area chairman and later vice-chairman of the West Midland area.

After four years service he retired last year as chairman of the RHA licensing committee. He will also now give up his posts as chairman of the RHA regional tipping service and the tipping vehicle operators' national functional committee.

For his vvork as a magistrate and a local councillor he was awarded the OBE in 1970.

Moving on from the courts to the ports, Frank Cousins has • been appointed as the independent chairman of the Joint Port Trade Development Committee for the Port of London, Scottish Gas has nearly 2,500 drivers working for it and Dundonian Jim Hunter beats the lot, For last week he competed against drivers from all over Scotland to win a lorry driver competition.

After 10 years filling various roles in international road haulage in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, John F. Hastie becomes Middle East freight manager of Abadan Services (UK) Ltd of Fareham, Hants.

Mr Hastie has been involved in route planning for a number of UK companies to destinations throughout the Middle East for the past two years and recently he was a European and Middle East transport consultant in London.

Ken Cameron, transport officer at the Highlands and Islands Development Board, is moving across Scotland at the end of this month to join the Tayside region as the depute director (development and planning) transport section.

Bill Strath has retired as managing director of Speedy Deliveries Ltd of South East London and for health reasons is moving to Walmer in Kent. Bill was formerly traffic manager with Cubbit Town Transport and before that worked in the traffic department of J. Spurling Ltd, a TDG company. He is a past chairman of the London Transport Managers Club.

Bill's place at Speedy has been filled by Ian Abdee, the son of Fred Abdee, company secretary of Thomas Paine and Company.

We record the death of Miss Agnes (Nessie) Robertson, an administrative assistant of 'the Scottish area of the RHA. Miss Robertson joined the Association in 1955 and in addition to her official duties was responsible for much of the social activities in the area.

William Harold Fowler, of Charrington Villa, Holbeach Drove, Spalding, a motor coach proprietor since 1947, has died suddenly at the age of 63 while attending a traction engine rally at Roxton Park, near Bedford.

On the trade front the biggest news this week is the appointment of Sir Ronald Edwards as non-executive chairman of the British Leyland board. Sir Ronald, who retired in May as chairman and chief executive of the Beecham Group, is also a former president of 'the Electricity Council.

The appointments of four other non-executive directors was also announced. They are Robert Clark, who sat on the Ryder team; John Gardiner, an ex financial journalist who is now chief executive of the Laird Group; Lord Greenhill of Harrow; and Ian McGregor, chairman of a mining company.

Lord Stokes has agreed to act as president of the new company with a largely "ambassadorial" role.


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