Crosville g.m. on NBC board
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C. R. Buckley, director and general manager of Crosville Motor Services Ltd.. has been appointed a member of the executive board of the National Bus Company with effect from October 1. Mr. Buckley joined Crosville in 1929 and became district manager at Crewe in 1942 and district manager. Merseyside. in 1945. He became deputy traffic manager in 1957 and in the following year was made traffic manager of the Bristol group of companies. He returned to Crosville in 1965 as director and general manager.
W. M. Heynes, vice-chairman (engineering) of Jaguar Cars, having reached normal retirement age, relinquished his long association with the company yesterday. Bill Heynes joined S.S. Cars Ltd. (the pre-war title) in 1935 as chief engineer and was responsible for the institution and development of a number of new engineering projects, as well as building up a team of engineers of outstanding ability. Two of them, R. J. Knight (chief vehicle engineer) and W. T. F. Hassan (chief engineer— power units) have been appointed to the board.
M. Birrell has become director and general manager of Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Ltd. K. J. Hobson has been appointed works director; W. Johnstone director and chief engineer; and R. Sollett commercial director. C. E. Benham, formerly of Scammell Lorries Ltd., joins as general sales manager. B. T. Warner has joined the headquarters staff of the National Freight Corporation as chief economic officer. He was formerly head of the transport and regional development division and of the industrial management division of the Metre Consulting Group.
Alan Havard has resigned from the National Freight Corporation -to follow other pursuits.Mr. Havard was editor of Commercial Motor from 1961 to 1967. before joining the Transport Holding Company as assistant director of freight planning, a post in which he has continued with the NFC. For some years he was national organizing secretary of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition: he is still a member of the executive committee and has recently been nominated as national chairman.
Lester W. Wright has been appointed to the board of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. He joined Vauxhall last May and is responsible for quality control and reliability; Mr. Wright was previously director of
reliability at the Buick division of General Motors in the USA.
J. Elliott, traffic manager. Alcan Industries Ltd., has been re-elected chairman of the membership committee of the Freight Transport Association.
R. W. Irons has been appointed manager of British Road Services Ltd. South Western District. He was formerly Southern area manager. tank haulage, Pickfords Ltd. Other BRS Ltd. appointments are W. D. Graham, manager, Edinburgh, formerly manager, Mile End: F. Birch, manager, Scunthorpe: P. 0. Tootell, manager, Ipswich: F. R. Gwyther, assistant general manager. Cartransport (BRS) Ltd.: J. 0. Wright, manager (designate), North Wales, formerly manager. Wrexham; J. H. C. Penrose, branch manager. Bristol branch BRS Parcels Ltd., formerly branch manager. Bournemouth.
John Metcalfe has been appointed deputy managing director of the Weldless Steel Tube Co, Ltd., a TI Company of Wednesfield. Staffs.
J. Bickers has been appointed London area manager, BRS Parcels Ltd. He was formerly assistant manager.