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Hall and farewell Chris and Phil
Page 38
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IT WAS a °hampers welcome for Christopher ThorneycroftSmith when he returned last month to OAF Trucks (GB) 88 marketing director. But there was no time to daily, with the Motor Show looming up end television and radio programmes to be organised in a hurry, as well as all the other Intricate arrangements that the blenniel beano entails.
One of his most urgent tasks was to complete the arrangements for the farewell reception for Phil Ives, who was retiring, much too soon, as managing director. In partnership with Chris, Phil carried on and developed a special relationship with the press that began with David Mansell a decade ago.
That rapprochement found tangible expression in a presentation by the press to Phil on board HMS Belfast on the Thames. He is the only motor industry executive I know to have been honoured in this way by transport journalists, just as Chris is, so far as I am aware, the only manufacturer's executive to have received a wedding gift from them. This is a memorable double first. And I was privileged to make both the presentations.
Roger Phillips, the new managing director, and Chris are much the same age and are determined to prove that this is a young man's world.