Reshuffle at Leyland
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• All three Leyland Daf manufacturing plants have gained new managing directors. John Gilchrist is new managing director of Leyland Operations with responsibility for all manufacturing activities including the Leyland assembly plant, chassis components operations and knock-down operations. Until last week he was manufacturing director at Leyland Trucks.
Graham Morris, formerly operations director at the Leyland assembly plant, becomes managing director of Freight Rover while John McGrowaty is promoted from operations director to manag ing director at the Albion axle plant in Glasgow.
Aart Van der Tempel joins Leyland Daf as purchasing director with responsibility for all buying activities within the new company, in the latest round of senior appointments. He was firmerly based at Oafs Eindhoven headquarters.
Other new Leyland Daf director appointments include Van der Tempel; Howard Kirkham, who becomes finance and systems director; Ian Purvis, personnel director; John Jones, quality director and Peter Capon, director of product development.
Structure The final structure of the merged Leyland/Daf company has been announced. The Eindhoven-based holding company is Daf By, 60% owned by a new company Daf Be!leer, and 40% by rover. Daf Beheer's shareholding roughly parallels the structure of the old Daf empire, with major shareholdings in the hands of the van Doorne family, the Dutch State Mines and Daf Trucks itself.