Research Fellowship in maintenance
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• Among the latest grants in research to the University of Strathclyde. Glasgow, is included the establishment of an operational research Fellowship in transport maintenance.
Five firms between them have contributed equally to /the grant of £12,000 over three years to Prof. Douglas J. White, Professor of Operational Research, to finance the Fellowship in research into the maintenance of large transport fleets through the application of operational research techniques—the use of scientific methods of analysis in solving problems concerned with the management and direction of large industrial, commercial and other organizations or systems.
The first Fellow to be appointed is Mr. Neil Honeyrnan, of Preston, operational research officer with Lancashire County Council. The companies associated with the grant are John Barrie (Contractors) Ltd.. Scottish CWS Ltd., Tayforth Ltd„ J. Lyons Ltd., and Unilever Ltd.