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* Mr. Bus
I am sure busmen everywhere will be delighted, as I am, that Tony Galley is to run the National Bus Company—that is, assuming the Bill becomes an Act. Like many other people in State transport he is still in that limbo or no-man's-land in which everything is based on that one assumption. Until there is an NBC he cannot be its chief executive. (And presumably we shall soon be learning, too, whether Sir Reginald Wilson has definitely accepted the post of chairman of the National Freight Corporation; he has, one hears, been waiting to see what final form the Act would take before formally committing himself.) Mr. Galley has four years to run before reaching official retirement age, and in that time he has a great fund of experience which he can apply to getting the NBC off on the right foot. Nobody could be better placed to ensure that the relationships with other branches of road passenger transport are not weakened or severed in the process, for he is highly regarded throughout the industry in Britain.
He certainly faces a mammoth task: not only will he be ultimately responsible for all the Tilling and ex-BET companies, running over 20,000 p.s.v., but also for the two manufacturing companies (Bristol and ECW) destined to come under the NBC's wing. with our own clime, because of disruption caused by the South East floods, the last date for joining a course for an loTA qualification at the London North Western Polytechnic was extended to last week. But I have it on the authority of education officer R. Almad that anyone applying in the next four or five days won't be turned away.