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MORE management restructuring has followed the Wincanton Group's appointment earlier this year of DAVID YEOMANS as its managing director. From this month, SIMON BOWN becomes director of transport, rentals and finance, with responsibility for Wincanton Vehicle Rentals, Unigate Commercial Contracts, Auto-Rentals Nationwide, and group finance and systems.
CHARLES LAWRENCE becomes director of transport operations, responsible for Wincanton Bulk Haulage, Wincanton Chilled Distribution, technical services and personnel. BETTY ROGERSON is marketing co-ordinator for the Wincanton Group.
The Bus and Coach Council's training executive is MAURICE JONES, a former senior manager with the Paper Industries Training Board. He began his working career in 1959 in industrial training with GEC, and moved later to Elliot Automation, Hoover, and Imperial Metal Industries. He joined the PITB in 1969. His appointment is the result of the BCC taking over the Road Transport Industry Training Board's bus and coach training responsibilities, and he will assist in identifying and implementing training policy. BRIAN JOHNSON, who was acting training executive, has returned to his training post at Greater Manchester Transport.
JASPER PETTIE, the Scottish Transport Group accountant, has become Scottish Bus Group secretary. He started with Eastern Scottish in 1969.
GEOFF LARNER is the newly appointed systems and programming manager on the management services team at Quinton Hazell's Balsall Common premises. He was previously group computer services man ager with Golden Wonder. PAUL COOK takes over as personnel manager at OH's Redditch plant, having previously been employee relations officer at group headquarters at Leamington Spa.
HARRY WEBSTER Automotive Products' group engineering director, is a new non-executive chairman with SKF Steel. His career began in 1932 when he was engaged as an apprentice by the Standard Motor Company, and he became Standard Triumph's director of engineering in 1957, responsible for many cars produced at that time. He became head of the Austin Morris engineering division in 1968, and moved to AP in 1974.
ARCHIBALD SHIELLS has had his appointment as chairman of the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority, in Northern Ireland, extended by a year until September 1983. Irish Transport and General Workers Union district officer BRENDAN CAMPBELL replaces MARTIN KING as a member of the authority.
The Simplification of International Trade Procedures Board has taken on JEAN WADLOW, managing director of Wadlow Grosvenor Productions as an ordinary member. Her appointment coincides with the resignation of Mr H. V. J. BROOKS (Unilever) and Mr G. C. T. BRIDGES (British Airways).
ALAN FREEMAN, executive editor of Middle East Transport has won the Guild of Motoring Writers' 1982 Michelin Travel Award, worth £850. The award has been made to support Mr Freeman's research into exporting to the Middle East, including travel across Eastern Europe to the Middle East.