Geoffrey Steel is PVOA chairman
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Geoffrey Steel, 38, marketing manager of the holiday and travel division of Wallace Arnold Tours, has been elected national chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. Mr Steel was chairman of the PVOA executive committee for three years and of its Yorkshire area for eight years. His father, the late Mr John Steel, was national chairman in the midSixties. Elected vice-chairmen were Hubert Allen, chairman of Yelloway Motor Services, Rochdale, and Kenneth Sidebotham, a director of the Godfrey Abbott Group, Sale; treasurer is Frank Broomfield, company secretary of Barton Transport, Nottingham; John M. Birch, a past national chairman, becomes chairman of the executive committee.
G. A. H. Cardwell, the National Freight Corporation's chief engineer, is to retire at the end of the year after 42 years in the road passenger and freight transport industries. Mr Cardwell became assistant gm, Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd, after the war. In 1949, he was appointed deputy chief engineer of the Road Haulage Executive, becoming chief engineer, BRS Parcels Ltd, in 1963 and chief engineer, BRS Federation Ltd, in 1965. With the establishment of the NFC in 1969, he has been successively chief engineer of the National Freight Federation (NFCI Ltd and of the Corporation itself. Since 1965, he has also been chairman of the vehicle bodybuilding subsidiary, Star Bodies (BRS) Ltd.
J. A. Davies has been appointed ER F general service manager. Mr Davies joined ERF as an apprentice in 1954 and for the past 2 years has been the assistant general service manager, before that technical service manager. Mr Davies takes over from K. G. Jones, who leaves to take up an appointment as a director of a newly formed transport company.
Max Francis retires today after 35 years' service with the British Road Federation. Mr Francis had played a big part in the BR F's campaign for better roads and has represented the Federation on the RoSPA National Road Safety Committee and its technical section and at international conferences on safety and traffic engineering.
Earl Howe will succeed Lord Chesham as president of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers at the Institute's agm on October 19. The vice-president will be J. R. Burrill.
J. D. Peace, "Orkney's Biggest Bus Operator." is retiring from business and has currently offered for sale buses, minibuses, car-hire units and self-drive cars at St Margaret's Hope. Orkney. The sale will include garage and offices at Junction Road, Kirkwall, and other premises in Stromness.
Richard Brown, 68, transport manager with Hoults Ltd, the Newcastle upon Tyne removals firm, has retired. Mr Brown joined Hoults in 1932 and became transport manager in 1950.
R. C. Mace has been appointed Luton branch, manager, BRS Parcels Ltd. He was previously assistant branch manager, Bristol. Roy Bishop, transport manager of A. A. Jones and Shipman Ltd, the Leicester machine tool manufacturer, has been elected chairman of the transport section of Leicester and County Chamber of Commerce in succession to Leslie Smith, general manager of Leicester City Transport, who has relinquished the appointment because of the pressure of other activities.
George King, 44, takes British Leyland's new post of director, manufacturing controls. Mr King was director of manufacture, truck and bus division. Frank Tilston, 43, takes the new post of director, manufacturing plans; he was previously managing director of the body and assembly division, and is succeeded by Derek Whittaker, 44, controller of the Corporation since 1972.
Simon Gearing, Trailer Express, Newcastle area manager, moves to marketing manager. The Immingham-based firm is the UK subsidiary of the Scandinavian Bilspedition.
C. A. E. Lewis has been appointed manager of the Newcastle upon Tyne depot of Rossleigh Ltd.
A. H. (Bill) Johnson, divisional director, parts and service; and E. Lawrinson, managing director, Regentruck Ltd, have been appointed to the main board of Lansing Bagnall Ltd.
Robert Lockwood becomes assistant to the managing director of Vauxhall Motors. Mr Lockwood has been manager of planning and development for General Motors overseas operations in New York.
Douglas Cant has been promoted company distribution manager of Golden Wonder Ltd. Mr Cant is a previous head of distribution and transport for Spillers. at Cam bridge. Mr D. Cant R. W. Wragg, managing director of North Derbyshire Engineering Co Ltd. is retiring at the end of this month. Ron Wragg designed his first Norde rubber suspension in 1960: it was fitted to a 24-ton artic of North Derbyshire's own make powered by a 250 hp Cummins engine.
OBITUARY
We record with regret the death of J. 0. Charters.
Mr Charters, 49, was transport manager at the Penrith (Cumberland) depot of the Milk Marketing Board's collection services.