New SMMT president to open CM'S Fleet Management Conference
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• The newly elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mr. Douglas Richards, has consented to perform the official opening ofthe 1969 Fleet Management Conference organized by Commercial Motor. This year's conference will be held at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on September 18.
Mr. Richards had been an SMMT vicepresident since 1965; he is chairman of the Zenith Carburetter Co. Ltd., and of Solex Ltd., and is a director of other companies in the UK and Australia. He is a member of the human resources working party of the Economic Development Committee for the Motor Manufacturing Industry, and for some years has represented the industry on the Bureau Permanent Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles. Douglas Richards is noted as a fluent and forceful speaker on motor industry affairs at home and abroad, and speaks French, German and Spanish.
Bookings for CM's 1969 conference have been building up strongly, but there are still some seats available.
Under the chairmanship of Lord Chesham, the conference will feature the presentation of papers on transport productivity by Mr. D. E. A. Pettit, chairman of SPD Ltd., and Mr. W. W. Heubeck, managing director of Ulsterbus Ltd.; a paper on marketing
methods for road haulage by Mr. J. M. Silbermann, managing director of the Brent Group; and one on fleet insurance by Mr. E. T. Hunter, motor manager of the Zurich Group. There will be a special illustrated presentation on vehicle development and testing by Mr. J. H. Alden, chief engineer of Vauxhall Motors Ltd., while one session will be devoted to a simulated application for, an operator's ("quality") licence.
The fee for the conference, which starts at 9.30 a.m. on September 18, is 7gns, and this includes bound copies of the papers, morning coffee, cocktails, lunch and afternoon tea. More information can be obtained by completing the form below, and sending it to The Editor, Commercial Motor, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London EC 1.