Bright leads Honours
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Deregulation in 198(3 has seen new buses, routes and operators as well as the sale of many NBC companies to their managers, yet, ironically, the top award to the transport industry in the new year's Honours List goes to Keith Bright, chairman and chief executive of London Regional Transport, not yet part of the de-reg programme. Bright has been selected for a knighthood.
Peter Allsebrook, chairman of TNT (UK) since its foundation in 1973, Dewi Evans, director of the Eastern Region of the Department of Transport, and Alan Halchett, deputy chairman of MO Containers all become Commanders of the British Empire.
Orders of the British Empire are awarded to Peter Fairclough, managing director and chief executive of Castrol, Eric Fountain, director of public affairs at Vauxhall Motors, Robert Fryars, recently retired adviser to the vehicles and systems assessment department, Transport and Road Research laboratory, William lbbotson, ex-transport and safety co-ordinator, Albright and Wilson, Vivian Knight, director of highways and transport with Cheshire County Council and Road Haulage Association elder statesman, Bert Neely. Neely is the RHA's immediate past national chairman and is awarded the OBE for his services to the road transport industry.
New Members of the British Empire include John Bowden, senior section engineer with Surrey County Council, David Buckle, district secretary of the Oxford Transport and General Workers' Union since 1965, Stan Kelly, plant manager with Ford at Southampton, where the Transit is built. Susan Kitchell, assistant export parts administrator with ERE and Joy Evans, a personal secretary with the DTp's Western traffic area since she joined in 1942 at the age of fifteen.
British Empire Medals have been awarded to the following: A L Bhatti, a driver with Rossendale Transport; L T Francis, Stansted airport's motor transport and mechanical engineer; C Fraser, a driver with Southampton City Transport; J Monice, a driver with Fife Scottish Omnibuses; B Neild, foreman warehouseman with Longtons Storage and Transport; A Singh, a foreman in production packaging with Ford and C E Yorke, recently retired warehouse manager with Flowers Transport. Bob Pearce, a vehicle inspector with the Freight Transport Association, has also gained the BEM.