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John R. Elliott
• The new Freight Transport Association president, Mr. John R. Elliott. is one of those extremely active transport men who must become completely involved in their subject. For John Elliott, there are no half measures. As a member of the Industrial Transport Association, he helped to form the South Wales division and has been chairman since its inception. He serves on the national council of, the ITA and recently has been appointed to the general purposes committee. In addition, he represents the Association on the Transport Managers Licence Committee.
Prior to his election as national president on Tuesday, he was chairman of FTA's South Western and South Wales division. Before the formation by merger of the South Wales, Western and Devon and Cornwall division, he was chairman of South division; he has served on the national council of FTA for seven years, for the past three as vice-chairman, and is chairman of the ETA membership committee. Throughout the war he served in the Merchant Navy. When he returned to civilian life in 1947, he held a first officer's ticket, After a year at Nottingham University. ,John decided that he should go out into the world and earn his living, and he joined Northern Aluminium Co Ltd. (later to become Alcan), at Rogerstone. Monmouthshire, as a clerk in the mill.
In 1949, he moved into the shipping and dispatch department where he worked until 1960 when he was appointed traffic manager. His fleet, 10 years ago, amounted to only 30 vehicles.
John Elliott is a man who believes in details: when answering a question he gives it microscopic attention to ensure that his answer is completely accurate.
John Elliott takes a very down-to-earth view of education. Sailing into the headwind of popular opinion, as it were, he believes that there is no real substitute for on-the-job training once a man has taken up employment.
He recalls his own difficulties in getting finished on time at night in order to attend further education classes for the Institute of Transport examinations.
In his year—at the most, two—as FTA president, he will have less time to spend with his family. This 47-year-old transport devotee spends all his free time with his wife and his two sons, I S