'THE CHARTERED Institute of Transport's 22 United Kingdom sections have
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elected chairmen who also serve as ex-officio CIT council members. Those with road transport connections are MALCOLM ROXBURGH, National Bus planning department (Barks.
Bucks, and Oxon); STUART BRADLEY, deputy docks manager, Hull, British Transport Docks Board (Humberside); PETER MAKINSON, West Midlands PTE training manager (operations) (Marcia); TOM McLACH LAN, Grey Green Coaches director (Metropolitan); KENNETH DURNELL, Gloucester
City Council (Midland); BASIL CORCORAN, Vincit Carriers trans
port manager (North Western); ROGER BAGNALL, Tyne and Wear PTE (Northern); IRVINE MILLAR, Ulsterbus (Northern Ireland); BRIAN HIRST, Yorkshire Traction general manager (Sheffield); FRANK WOODWORTH, formerly National Bus (South Eastern); TIM DAVIES, Devon County Council transport co-ordinating officer (South Western); JOHN HUBER, Campings Luxury Coaches managing director
(Sussex); GORDON DURHAM, G. Durham and Company manag
ing director (Teesside); BOB PINDER, Bristol Omnibus training officer (Western); and BOB DAVIES, ex-director, West Yorkshire PTE (Yorkshire).
The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is moving its headquarters from Leicester to the London area next month, and director general JOHN WELLS is being made AVRO
executive. JOHN ROGERS becomes acting chairman, BRIAN
DRURY vice chairman, JOHN WOOLDRIDGE treasurer, and DAVE THORLEY and JOHN SOFTLEY board members.
AVRO's public relations committee is being reconstituted, under the chairmanship of DAVE McALLISTER. ALAN NEWDICK is secretary, DAVE THORLEY is res ponsible for events, and other members are ALAN HODGINSON (council), JOHN ROGERS (ex officio), JOHN WOOLDRIDGE (coopted), and FRANK SMITH (AVRO News).
Amalgamated Passenger Transport general manager GEORGE SHAW becomes group technical engineer at National Bus on October 1. He started his career with Leyland Motors in 1955, joined Eastern Counties as a senior management trainee in 1961, and was general manager of Lincolnshire Road Car from 1978 until he took charge of APT In 1981.
HARRY BLUNDRED, Oxford
South Midland's traffic manager, is being seconded to the National Bus Midlands and West region from September 1, to assist regional executive JOHN BODGER who is taking temporary charge of Western National from that date.
Cab-Craft, a Mitchell Cotts engineering company, has made ALISTAIR DOUGLAS managing director, and JOHN MARCHBANK production director. Mr Douglas has been director and general manager since he joined CabCraft last year from Coventry Climax, and Mr Marchbank has been production manager for two years. Both started their new jobs on July 1.
Mitchell Colts Precision Engineering, based at Weston-superMare, has made KERI WILLIAMS its director and general manager. He has been with Mitchell Cotts since J. C. Peacock was taken over in 1968.
TIM WERNLY is now chariman of Scantruck, as well as Scania (Great Britain), and CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, who joined the company in December last year, has moved from being general manager to succeed RAY FISHER as 'managing director of Scantruck.
Correction JOHN THOMPSON is managing director of Wincanton Garages and not of Wincanton Group as was stated in last week's "People on the move". DAVID YEOMAN is the Wincanton Group's managing director.
Obituary We record with regret the death of GRAHAM BRANT at 57.
Mr Brant was chief executive of York Trailer's service division, and joined the company in 1960 after years of service in the aluminium industry, and started as chief development engineer. He took charge of York's export business in 1968, and was made a Member of the British Empire in 1974. He also had environmental interests, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1973. He leaves a wife, son, and daughter.