Restructured team installed at Hestair
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A REORGANISATION within the engineering side of Hestair, has resulted in the following senior personnel moves.
Jeremy Stoke, formerly managing director of Duple Metsec, has become the managing director of' Dennis Eagle.
h e for nunproduction director of Dennis at Guildford, Steve Burton, is now the managing director of Dennis Specialist Vehicles, while the former deputy managing director of Dennis, Guildford, Richard Owen, has been promoted to chief executive at Hestair Duple.
Barrie Mealing, meanwhile — previously deputy chairman of Hestair Duple — takes up a Hestair Vehicle Group role, as a director of each company, responsible for product development at all the Group's three sites.
According to Hestair Duple, the reorganisation is due kar completion by the end of the year. It involves the rehousing of the refuse vehicle manufacturing plant in a new 125,(i00ftfactory at Warwick (Dennis Eagle), while the reorganised bus and tire chassis lines are well On the way at Guildford (Dennis Specialist Vehicles).
In addition. Metsec has moved to its new office block in Oldbury and the manufacture of the M2tsec bus body kits is now housed in Duple at Blackpool, along with the
manufacture of cabs for tire and municipal chassis. Bifort Engineering is in the process of moving to Duple'sVicarage Lane site.
Mealing was responsible for the design of the Eagle Phoenix refuse collector, which is now the UK's best seller, and more recently for the new range of Duple coaches, the Integral 425 and the 300Series body-on chassis. His new role will not only include these, but will encompass both fire and bus products as well.
Owen and Burton have been with Hestair for several years — the former being responsible for the manufacture of fire and bus chassis at Guildford; the latter, responsible at Blackpool for the coach and cab building activities, as well as for Duple Services Ltd and Hestair Duple Sales.
Peter Wragg, managing director of Ilestair Duple Sales, remains responsible for sales, marketing and distribution and all dealer activities of the company within the UK, but the formation of the new company marks the importance that Hestair places on expanding Duple activities both within the UK and abroad.
be new vehicle companies, including Bilort Engineering and Metsec, will be under the chairmanship of Geoff Hollyhead.