TGWU elects Jack Jones
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J ack Jones, assistant executive secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, has been elected to succeed general secretary Frank Cousins, who is to retire later in the year. Mr, Jones is reported to have had a substantial majority over the other nine candidates, who included five national officers of the union and a regional organizer.
Tom Simpson has been appointed managing director of Transport and Chemical Engineers Ltd. Mr. Simpson was formerly managing director of the poultry division of the Ross Group, Grimsby: F. Paul Kendall ...kir has been appointed managing director and chief executive officer of Continental Oil (UK} Ltd. W. E. K. Grisewood. former managing director, has been named chairman of the board. Mr. Kendall was deputy managing director (marketing and supplies). " Peter Duckworth, 30, has been appointed an additional Avon Rubber Co. Ltd., district manager in the North West.
Michael J. P. Pye, 36, has resigned his directorships of H. Pye and Son Ltd., Pye Transport Ltd., Co-Ordinated Contracts Ltd.. and R. Hodge Ltd. and has, therefore, severed all connections with Mitchell Carts Group of Cornpanies. Mr. Pye has joined with Col. H. W. Boatman and Aid. F. D. Parry to form a group controlling G. and J Jacobs Ltd., R. A. Jones 'Transport} Ltd. and Cumhill Contracts Ltd. Head office has been established at 43 St. Nicholas Street, Bristol 1, with operating centres at Kingswood and St. Philip's, Bristol. M. Pye, who joined the Pye Group in 1954, was head of the engineering department of the Group from 1958 to 1966. Peter Yorke has been appointed a director of the Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. in place of Sir Francis Rundall. who has resigned.
W. H. Hayward has been appointed commercial sales manager of the Coach and Commercial Division of Humphrey Thompson Enterprises . Ltd., a member of the Rootes of Slough Group. Mr. Hayward, formerly with Strachans (Coach Builders Ltd.), joined the company to develop and market Compact MK 11 temporary windscreens for commercial vehicles and luxury coaches.
Dr. T. A. J. Lamb is to be chairman of a new company to be called Marston Radiator Services Ltd., a direct subsidiary of IMI which will operate in close association with Marston Radiators Ltd. Dr. Lamb is managing director of Marston Radiators.
F. S. Farn has been appointed sales manager. commercial Vehicle Division, Colmore Depot Ltd, British Leyland distributor in the Midlands and North. Mr. Farn was previously Colmore Depot trade sales manager, commercial vehicles, in the Midlands.
Robert S. Till has been appointed group director of operations of Automotive Products Group—as from January 1 1969. Mr. Till. the present deputy director of operations, will be based at Leamington Spa. This appointment follows the decision of E. Beaumont to relinquish the post of director of operations at the end of the year. Edgar William Hunt. who has been with Leslie Hartridge Ltd. for 32 years, has been appointed service manager to both the Diesel and the Garage Equipment Divisions. Mr. Hunt was formerly service tools manager and works manager. Derek M. Auger has joined Hartridge from the British Steel Corporation to take over the publicity department.
Eric R. Whiteley, 48, has been appointed group transport manager of the Smithfield and Zwanenberg Group Ltd. Mr. Whiteley will cover all the group's transport matters, including standardization, transport costs, maintenance and vehicle productivity. He will also continue as a director of Whiteley, Muir and Zwanenberg Ltd.
OBITUARY
We record with regret the deaths of Grahame H. Bird and William E. Duck.
Mr. Duck, 74, who built up and became in 1923 the first chairman and managing director of Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd. in the UK, died at his Gerrard's Cross home. At the age of 13, William Duck went to the USA and when 22 joined the sales department of the Firestone Company at Baltimore. Mr. Duck held the post of chairman and managing director of Firestone UK until his retirement in October 1959.
Mr. Bird. 56, managing director of Transport Brakes Ltd., Brislington, Bristol, died suddenly at his home after a heart attack. Only two months ago the news was announced of the merger of Hubert H.P. Trist and Co. Ltd. and Transport Brakes Ltd., the quoted holding company, Trist, Draper Ltd., having acquired all the share capital of Transport Brakes. Mr. Bird joined the Trist, Draper board at the time of the merger, but it is understood that most of the reorganization necessary for the merger had already been agreed before his death.