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_ONDON Transport has made like Hawkes assistant claims and insurance manager. He will )e responsible for claims and .ealted matters, risk management and for a departmental :raining scheme. Mr Hawkes oined London Transport in 1967 after three years in the insurance ndustry.
John Woods becomes general manager of Wincanton Chilled Distribution, part of Wincanton Transport Ltd. He joined the company in August and has been based at the Trowbridge office, but will shortly move into its new, purpose-built, transshipment centre at Chippenham which will be the headquarters of WCD. Mr Woods was previously director of distribution and packing with Lovell and Christmas, part of the Fitch Lovell Group.
Following the restructuring of Leyland Vehicles, the commercial vehicle side of British Leyland, a number of senior appointments have been made. Ian McKinnon becomes manufacturing director, with Howard Kirkham being made finance and systems director,. John Davidson takes on the role of product development director and John Jones is now quality director. Vic Wilkes has been promoted to operations director of Scammell.
The Northern Ireland Transport Users' Committee of the Department of the Environment has elected four new members to the 19-man committee. They are Eric Smyth, Belfast, Jim McCart, Warrenpoint, David Neill, Newtonabbey and Ken Maginnis, Dungannon.
Brian Woods, an international transport and haulage contract specialist, has been made managing director of MTV lnterna
tional Transport. Mr Woods joined MTV Trade Services Group only two months ago, and now finds himself in charge of the new division of MTV recently set up to specialise primarily in fragile and delicate goods transportation. He will be based at Campion House, Franchise Street, Kidderminster.
Lex Tillotson has appointed David Morrow managing director. He has been with the Lex group for nine years, starting as a service manager for the company and working through to general manager of Tillotson's Bristol branch before his new appointment.
Two directors of Edbro Ltd, David Taylor and Dr John Wor ton-Griffiths, have been elected to the board of parent company Edbro (Holdings) Ltd. David Taylor is a former trade apprentice with the machine-tool makers Churchill and Redman, Halifax.
He joined Edbro in Bolton in 1977 as manufacturing manager and became a director in 1979.
John Griffiths has joined Edbro as engineering director of a hydraulics manufacturing plant in Turkey. He became technical manager in 1979 and a director in 1980.
Ken Allsop has be promoted to district manager f the Bandag Tyre Compan based in Nottingham, He w previously area sales manag( Mr Allsop joined the tyre in& try in 1958 and held a number sales posts with Pirelli Ltd. I was regional sales manag (East Midlands) for 13 years ai from 1977-1980 he was Natior Fleets sales manager. He join the Bandag Company in 1980.
Ken Hawkins has been ma sales and marketing director 1 Freight Computer Services L He has been with FCS for ni years and was formerly respor ible for their mini computer ( tivities.
OBITUARY WE RECORD with regret t death of Dick Hooykass. Hooykass worked with the Int national Road Transport Uni( and had participated actively the work of the professioi goods transport section of t IRU since 1971. He was ch( man of the Consultative Co mittee of Netherlands Got Transport and deputy chairrr of the Netherlands Transp Council.