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The broad hint dropped by Sir Dan Pettit last week th would not return for a third term as NFC chairman whe present contract expires was not unexpected. Ever energetic Sir Dan needs to recharge the batteries once while.
Leading the NFC through some heavy weather in recent Years cannot have been easy but in his dealings with his colleagues, competitors, and dare I say it, the press, the man from , Merseyside shows understanding, diplomacy and wit backed up by a sharp commercial brain .
Oh dear, this begins to read like an obituary — I had no such intention. Indeed, Sir Dan has a lot to do before handing ever_ At the end of the summer he's off Down Under on a business trip and therefore, won't be chairman of FMC '78. He looked genuinely sorry when he told us.
But before he goes he's asked us to a party — on De cember 8 to be precise. Tha NEC will be 10 years old.
Speculation is rife about follows Sir Dan but it wou imprudent and impolite for join in. All we can say is tha time last week the Depart of Transport or possibly I correctly, the Government not made a choice. Fos: reason is that they won't b, Government when the vac Occurs.
Now, since politicians c and go, would it not be an for Sir Peter Baldwin, the manent Under Secretary a Ministry, to invite the maina of NFC's operating compe to nominate — in secre course — their choice chairman?