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LOTHING TRANSPORT Decialist company in the SPD roup, Tibbett and Britten, has amed two new senior lanagers.
Bob English becomes the Dmpany's Northern operations )anager, responsible for cus)mer service and general aerations management for bbett and Britten's Northern apots at Rochdale, Morley, urham, East Kilbride and Belst. Mr English was previously 'al-lager at the Rochdale depot -id has been with the company .r nine years.
John Rogers is named as anager of Tibbett and Britten's aw depot in Leeds. He has ?,en with the SPD group for the St eighteen years and was preously manager of the SPD de)t in Belfast.
National Freight Corporation )mpany, British Road Services roup, has also made two senr appointments. Brian Denvir the group's new product anager for truck rental. He has tterly been with Scottish Road Services, also on the truckrental side.
BRS sees Mr Denvir's prime task as consolidating and maintaining standards in the group's truck rental service and where possible improving efficiency and utilisation. He succeeds Jim McGovern who has been appointed marketing manager at North Western BRS.
David Buck has become product manager for contract hire for the BRS group and will be responsible for co-ordinating the contract-hire activities.
Midlands BRS has a new trailer-rental manager. He is Barry Crellin and will be based at the Oldbury branch. He joins the company from another rental company, Rentco, where he was district manager for the Midlands area.
Hertz Europe has named Angelo Salmasi as director of truck rental and leasing operations. Mr Salmasi had first joined Hertz in his native Italy and has worked for the company in the UK, Europe and the United States. He will be based at the headquarters in Isleworth, Middlesex.
Ian Chudley has moved to Leslie Hartridge, manufacturer of automotive test equipment, as sales manager UK for the Buckingham-based company, Mr Chudley joins Hartridge from Electro Diesel in Mexico where he worked in sales and marketing. In his new post he will be responsible for developing sales in the UK of the company's fuel injection and vehicle-test equipment.
A director of Kelly's Removals, Tony Graham of Guildford, has moved to become assistant to the managing director of another removal company, Trenchards of, Bournemouth. Mr Graham became general manager of Kel ly's in 1971, being made director in 1978.
He played a prominent role i developing Kelly's internationi removal operations, and Trenchards will also be respon ible for international roa removals. Both Kelly's an Trenchards are members of th consortium of European inten ational removal companie: Eurovan.
Obituaries
We record withregret the death of Charles Chapman and Jac Neate.
Mr Chapman was the la: surviving founder director ( Perkins Engines, having c( founded the company in 193: He had designed the first Pe kins four-cylinder diesel, th Vixen, and also the first si; cylinder Perkins engine, calle the P6. As late as 1968 IV Chapman helped to develo Perkins' first V8 engine.
Jack Neate was chairman c Neate Brake Controls, the corr pany he took over from hi father in 1944. Mr Neate hirr self helped to design and dev( lop much of the company' braking and towing equipment