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Jeffrey Harrison, formerly marketing manager of York Trailer Co Ltd, has been appointed a sales director of Neville Truck Equipment Ltd. He handled sales promotion matters for York Trailer for nine years. At NTE Mr Harrison will be responsible for marketing the company's range of Uni-dump and Tandemdump trailers as well as the radius-cornered semi-trailer tipping bodies. NT's marketing and service association with York on dumper models will be unaffected by a new management structure at Kirkby. says managing director George Neville, who adds that other forms of specialized NTE bodywork are to be announced shortly. Six men are apppinted directors. They are: Cecil Jones, service and equipment: Peter Bloomfield, -component manufacturing: George Harrison, manufacturing at Northallerton; Ron Eatnonson, manufacturing at Corby: Arthur Doughty, industrial relations: Robert `Alin, product engineering.
Neville Moulding, 41, has been appointed managing director of Abel Systems Ltd, Birmingham-based distribution specialist and demountable body manufacturer. Mr Moulding joined the company as a director and distribution systems consultant on its formation in October. 1970. M. A. Grant, 45, has been appointed general manager of W. J. Boyes and Son 'Ltd. the recently acquired company of Scotts of Nottingham Ltd. From 1958 Mr Grant was manager of the automotive and oilfield equipment division of Mitchell Cotts and Co (Libya) Ltd. returning to the UK to join the Cummins Engine Co Ltd, and later leaving the motor industry for fork-lift truck and power pack manufacturing.
Geoffrey S. Moss, 45, who has spent most of his life on the engineering side of shipbuilding rising to managing director of Gemmel! Laird and Co Ltd, has been appointed to the board of Edbro (Holdings) Ltd. For two years Mr Moss has been running a consultancy specializing in management and marketing.
W. G. (Bill) Foster has been appointed a director from October 1 of Samuel Williams Transport Ltd, a member of the Williams Hudson Group. Mr Foster has been successively a works engineer, chief works engineer and manager, and among other things he introduced a repair service for vehicles belonging to people outside the company.
Eric R. Hart, 47, has joined Rubery Owen-Rockwell Ltd as managermanufacturing from Wellworthy Engineering Ltd where he was works manager.
Frank Zwa nenburg, managing director of Edbro Europa, Holland, joins the board of parent company Edbro (Holdings) Ltd which has acquired control of the Dutch concern. Well-known in New Zealand and Australian transport circles, Mr Zwanenburg is a director of Transport Specialities (NZ) Ltd and of Transpec Ltd, Melbourne, which he founded and which is now the biggest concern of its type in Australasia.
W. D. (Bill) Hawkes has been appointed manager of the Bulk Liquids Division of Samuel Williams, Thames Terminal Ltd, a member of the Williams Hudson Group. Mr Hawkes joined the Group by way of Harrisons (London) Ltd.
M. H. L. Lewis has been appointed to the board of R. A. Lister and Co Ltd, Dursley, Glos, as deputy chairman and managing director, to take effect from December 1, 1971. He will also join the board of Hawker Siddeley Diesels Ltd, of which R. A. Lister is a subsidiary. Since 1970 he has been chairman of Noyes Bros, the Australian subsidiary of Crompton Parkinson.
William Masterton, financial director of the British Aircraft Corporation (Holdings), has joined the board of David Brown Corporation. Raymond T. Davis has been appointed air freight manager, London Airport branch, BRS Parcels Ltd. He was previously a management trainee.