L. W. Leppington to head Freightliners Ltd
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L. W. Leppington, 54, at present deputy general manager, London Midland Region, British Railways, is to succeed T. G. Gibb as managing director of Freightliners Ltd, from February 21. Mr Gibb has been appointed co-ordinator of a special traffics group which includes Freightliners Ltd. Mr Leppington began his transport career with the former LNER at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1933. After military service, which he left in 1946 with the rank of major, RE, he became a traffic apprentice with the LNER, and held various appointments before becoming traffic costing officer, Paddington, Western Region, in 1955. After several more moves he was appointed a member of the London Midland board in 1969, and deputy general manager in 1970.
H. J. F. Strange has been promoted from transport manager, Guinness, Park Royal, to distribution manager. Mr Strange is senior vice-chairman of the London division of the Industrial Transport Association. The structure of Guinness's new distribution department has now been finalized and T. E. T. Gower becomes operations manager, at the same time retaining his post as distribution planning manager.
Kan Springham has been appointed sales manager of Tr-Wall Containers Ltd, where he has held the positions of sales engineer and area customer service manager during the past three years.
P.O. E. "Tim" Bergqvist has been appointed Continental director of Interoute Ltd, the Buckinghamshire-based international haulage company which specializes in road-rail trunk services to Portugal. Mr Bergqvist used to be international sales manager of Dunlop's earth-moving division.
H. D. Wordsworth, works manager, has been appointed an associate director of Crompton Leyland Electricars Ltd. Mr Wordsworth joined the company last year after service with Rootes Motors (Scotland) Ltd and Swifts of Scarborough Ltd..
Sir William Lyons, chairman of Jaguar Cars Ltd and a deputy chairman of British Leyland, retires from both boards next month having reached the age of 70. He has been invited to become president of Jaguar Cars in a non-executive and advisory role. At the age of 21, William Lyons co-founded the original company, Swallow Sidecar, which ultimately became Jaguar Cars. He was knighted in 1956 and diversified the company into the commercial vehicle field with the purchase of Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd (buses) along with the Daimler car firm, Guy Motors Ltd (trucks and buses), anti Coventry Climax Engines Ltd.
Robert G. Abbot, for the past 31years transport manager for Baughams Frozen Food at Colchester, becomes transport superintendent for Harlow Urban District Council from February 21.
William Leese, director and general manager of Ribble Motor Services Ltd, has agreed in view of the pending reorganization of the N BC to accept an offer of early retirement from March 31 after serving the passenger transport industry for more than 45 years. James G. Methven, an executive director of the Scottish Bus Group, has retired. Mr Methven started as a bus driver with the General Motor and Carrying Co Ltd, Kirkcaldy, in 1927. From 1946 to 1948 he was TGWU passenger group secretary and a member of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry. From 1948 to 1949 he was the divisional staff and welfare officer of the Road Transport Executive later Road Haulage Executive.
Clir D. Gilroy Bevan, 43, who has served on the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority since its inception, has been elected chairman to succeed Aid Sir Francis Griffin. ClIr Bevan, a Conservative member of Birmingham city council, is a past chairman of the former Birmingham City Transport Committee.
Robert E. Walker, 43, has been appointed manager of Vauxhall Motors' £70m plant at Ellesrnere Port. He is succeeded as manager of the Bedford factory at Dunstable by Eric D. Fountain, 42, who has been general production manager at the company's Luton hq since May 1970, William J. Slachta, manager of the Ellesmere Port plant since 1969, is joining the Detroit staff of General Motors overseas operations. Mr. Walker joined Vauxhall in 1964 as assistant to the director of manufacturing, and two years later was appointed production manager of the Bedford truck factory at Dunstable. In March 1967 he became plant manager. Mr Fountain joined the company as an office boy in 1943, served an apprenticeship, becoming successively a planning engineer, Ellesmere Port chief planning engineer, area manager in charge of export boxing operations, Luton plant general area manager of the press, body and paint shops, and production manager in 1969, B. Hale, formerly a salesman in the Birmingham area, has been appointed Kenning Tyre Services national contracts manager. Birmingham. Alan Walder, 38, successively a driver, foreman and operations supervisor at the Croydon depot of PD Wharfage and Transport Ltd (part of the Powell Duffryn Group), has been promoted manager.
H. G. Burkett has relinquished his directorship of Coventry and Jeffs Ltd, the commercial-vehicle distributor, to start a new function called'group products liaison with the Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd Group. He will start sales, service and spares promotion and operator .contacts through the Seddon Atkinson distributor network.
Ron Smith has been appointed a director of Scantruck Ltd; A. Gee is rejoining the company as an area sales manager for Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and West London.