Transport's CBEs
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BRITISH Road Federation chairman Tony de Boer and Scottish Transport Group deputy chairman and managing director Ian Irwin top road transport's share of the New Year's honours list. Both have been made Companions of the British Empire.
Mr de Boer has been BRF chairman since June 1972, and holds directorships of Tarmac, Chloride, Burmah Oil, British Transport Advertising, Anvil Petroleum, Tomatin Distillers, and Steel Brothers Holdings. He is also the longest serving parttime member of the National Bus Company, having served on it since November 1968.
Mr Irwin, who is also a parttime NBC member, is chairman of the Scottish Bus Group, and was president of the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport in 1980. He is currently vice-president of the International Union of Public Transport.
Alan Donald, senior consultant with Ernest A. Notcutt and Company, and insurance broker to the Road Haulage Association, Freight Transport Association and CPT, has been made a Member of the British Empire.
David Brown, the County Durham engineering company managing director who offered to buy Leyland Vehicles in December 1979, is another CBE, as is James Fowles, an executive
director with the Department of Transport at Swansea.
Orders of the British Empire have gone to Bryn Davies, a South Wales Traffic Commissioner (for long and outstanding service), newly appointed Sealink UK deputy managing director Len Merryweather, P&O European Transport Services executive chairman E. Percival, and to Transport and General Workers Union North Wales district officer J. M. Griffiths.
London Transport depot engi neer Brian Fairchild, BL private secretary Mrs A. J. Gough, Department of Transport senior executive officer Eithne McGrory, OK Motor Services of Bishop Auckland adviser, and former Northern Road Owners Association chairman Fred Wade, and Royal Corps of Transport Maj. A. R. McAdams and
Warrant Officer P. Colclough have been made Members of the British Empire.
A British Empire Medal has gone to Bill Kirkham, a 74-yearold heavy goods vehicle driver with Goodier and Sons Ltd, of Preston. Mr Kirkham, who started as a horse and cart driver in 1936, still holds a Class 1 licence, and undertakes parttime local work for the company.
Other BEMs have gone to W. P. Harvey, transport foreman with the Department of Environment in Scotland, Scottish Omnibuses (Eastern Scottish) inspector G. Stewart, and the Royal Corps of Transport's Staff Sgts J. Baker, and D. C. Cleeton, Sgts I. A. Emberton, A. E. Forrow, J. Gray, and D. A. Walters, and Cpl D. Pratt.