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ALAN BUCKLE will occupy the new post of marketing manager for Cartransport Limited. Responsible for liaison with established customers and for developing new business he will shortly begin an intensive tour throughout the UK, highlighting the facilities of the car preparation centre at Warrington and the opportunities for car exporters using the established Cartransport depots at ports around the country.
P. J. Fenney, the new fleet engineer for Sabah Timber South East (Merchants) Limited, will be responsible for the maintenance control of three company workshops in South East England involving commercial vehicles, plant machinery and company cars. Previously, he was employed by the Freight Transport Association's senior inspector in the South Western Region.
T. J. Lowe has been appointed assistant chief mechanical engineer for London Transport. As well as deputising for the chief mechanical engin6er, he will continue to be directly responsible for technical design and development of buses and Underground rolling stock.
• Mr Lowe has been mechanical engineer (design) for the past four years.
Max Wexler has been appointed assistant personnel services officer (catering), with responsibility for the operation of all catering servi ces, and John Lane becomes assistant personnel services officer (premises), responsible for the control of head office premises and the maintenance and upkeep of catering, sports and social buildings.
J. B. Butterfield Limited, the diagnostic equipment specialists, Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, announces that M. C. H. Taylor will represent the company in Leicestershire, Northampton, Bedfordshire and parts of Cambridge.
Golden Lion Holidays have appointed Patrick Richardson and Gillian Sewell to take responsiblity for aspects of the company's inbound and outbound tour programmes.
David A. Eakhurst has joined John Ratcliff (Tail Lifts) Ltd, as marketing director.
Brian Hannan becomes regional field service inspector for the South East and East; Alan Hendry is the inspector for Scotland and Northern Ireland; Chris Bligh for Northern England and North Wales, and Brian Page looks after the South West and South Wales.
Chrysler UK has appointed a new director of industrial relations. Max Pecqueux takes over from Ray Smith who moves to a new job with Chrysler in North America.
Peter Bibby is now sales director, Laycock Engineering Limited, a member company of the GKN Transmissions sub-group. His responsibilities will cover the full range of Laycock products in the automotive, general engineering and garage equipment fields.
Michael Slade has joined GKN Kent Alloys Limited as sales director where his responsibilities, primarily, will be directed towards increasing Kent Alloys' market share of the aluminium alloy' wheel business.
Production engineering director of Rolls-Royce Motors diesel division is Norman Came. He is the first R-R Shrewsbury-trained apprentice to become a director of the NFC chief purchasing officer Kenneth Gilmour has retired. He joined BRS in 1962 after 23 years in the army. In 1965 he was appointed chiet purchasing officer of the Transport Holding Company and continued in the job when the NFC was formed.
Christine Chapman is the new sales administration manager of Intertruck Ltd as part of the company's internal sales reorganisation. She will be responsible for customer liaison, telephone sales and the collation of statistics.
We record with regret the deaths of Bill Hendry and David Nicol.
Mr Hendry was a senior member of the transport sales staff of Hallet Silberman of Hatfield. He had been with the company for 16 years.
Mr Nicol was purchasing manager for Magirus Deutz (Great Britain) Ltd.