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Jim Lees, bus sales manager, British Leyland Truck and Bus Division, and his deputy, Bob Crouch, continue in their positions in a major reorganization of the Division's bus sales section, announced last week. Mr Crouch assumes special responsibilities for Daimler vehicles and the factory at Radford, Coventry, where he will continue to be based. The changes announced are as follows;—
C. D. Watters is appointed assistant bus sales manager. He will be based at Leyland and will have the additional responsibility for bus sales to Eire. He was formerly regional bus sales manager (west).
F. W. Tattersall is being transferred to Scotland as truck and bus division sales manager (Scotland) and will assume overall responsibility for bus sales, in addition to his truck sales responsibilities. He will be assisted by B. M. Hamilton.
P. W. Smith will continue as regional bus sales manager least), responsible for the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. He will also retain responsibility for the municipalities of Chesterfield, Lincoln and Grimsby /Cleethorpes, together with sales to the coach dealers A. Moseley and Son Ltd and W. S. Yeates Ltd. He will be assisted by G. Codling.
A. H. Jackson is appointed regional bus sales manager (west), responsible for the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Northern Ireland and the loM. Formerly southern zone manager, he will be based at Leyland and will be assisted by R. A. Cotton. S. W. Shears will assume responsibility for a newly formed midland region bounded by a line south of Cheshire and Yorkshire in the north and by the counties of Cardigan, Radnor, Hereford, Worcester, Warwick, Northampton. Huntingdon, Cambridge and Suffolk to the south, Formerly regional bus sales manager (south west) he will be based at the Coventry Daimler factory.
B. Foster will remain as regional bus sales manager (south east), responsible for the counties of Essex, Hertford, Bucks, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, including the Greater London Area. He will be based at the AEC factory. Southall, and be assisted by P. J. Rigby.
J. S. Robinson is appointed regional bus sales manager (south west), responsible for South Wales and all counties west of a line bounded by Gloucester, Oxford, Berkshire and Hampshire, as well as the loW and Channel Islands. He will be based at the truck and bus division sales office, Bristol. An assistant is still to be appointed.
L. H. Mapleston, secretary of the National Freight Corporation, is to retire at the end of this year after nearly 47 years' service in transport. The secretarial and administrative departments of the NFC will then be reorganized and K. T. Harrison, at present principal administrative officer, will be responsible for them with the title of chief Secretary. Meantime A. J. Staley has been appointed secretary designate, becoming secretary on January 1 1972. Mr fVlapleston began his transport career with the former LMS Railway; he was secretary of the Transport Holding Company in 1963 and secretary of the NFC in 1968. He is a former director of Harold Wood and Sons Ltd and also, from 1963 to 1969, of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co Ltd and Trent M otor Traction Co Ltd.
G. Fearnley, deputy transport manager with Hartlepool Corporation, is leaving on November 28 to become transport manager at Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire, A. C. MacKinley, formerly manager. Glasgow branch, Pickford's Heavy Haulage Ltd, has become manager. Scottish branches. Responsible for coordinating the Glasgow and Edinburgh branches, Mr MacKinley will remain located at Glasgow; A. MacLellan will continue to manage the Edinburgh branch.
Reg Gates, commercial manager for Scotts of Nottingham for the past three and a half years, has been appointed to the board of the company and becomes commercial director. He has been with the company for 26 years.
Bob Atkinson has been made fleet sales manager of Coachwork Conversions Ltd — a new post in the company. He joins CC after several years with NCC Plant and Transport Ltd.
John Bell has been appointed production director of the Dunlop UK Tyre Group in succession to W. Holyoak, who has retired. Mr Bell has been general works manager at Fort Dunlop since 1969. Succeeding him in that position is J. R. A. Christie, who has held a similar appointment at the India Tyres factory at Inchinnan since 1966. J. Brown, India's technical manager, takes over from Mr Christie. George Slater, general manager of Dunlop Group corporate planning, has retired after nearly 44 years with the company. His successor is his deputy, Roy Marsh.
William C. Wilson, transport manager with Teesside Corporation, is to retire next May. after 40 years in transport. Mr Wilson moved to Teesside from Salford in 1949 to become deputy engineer and manager of the Old Stockton Corporation bus undertaking. He was later promoted to manager and in 1968, when the new Teesside County Borough came into being, he took charge of the .merged undertakings of Middlesbrough and Stockton Corporation, and the Teesside Railless Traction Board.