David Burr is an assistant secretary in the Department of
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the Environment, with responsibilities for road passenger transport. Before this he spent a period on secondment to the Prices and Incomes Board, having joined the Ministry of Works in 1959 as an assistant principal.
Denis Quin, FCIS, MCIT, joined the PVOA in 1966 as secretary and is now director. His Association work has kept him in constant close touch with international developments and he has represented the European road passenger industry in negotiations with Continental governmental bodies.
John McHugh, MSAE, is a director of engineering of the Duple Group, managing director of Bifort Engineering Ltd and a director of Duple Coachbuilders. He began
Ailhis career in 1927 as a craft engineering apprentice with Leyland Motors and worked as a draughtsman and designer from 1936 until he became assistant chief engineer in 1944. For 10 years from 1946 he was director and chief engineer of Leyland Motors (Canada) and then from 1956 to 1967 held a similar position with Leyland Motors Ltd in England. For the three years before joining Duple he worked as a consultant to the coach industry.
Alan Donald, FCIB, is a director of Ernest A. Notcutt and Co Ltd, insurance brokers, and a member of the PVOA insurance panel. He has been with the company for over 40 years end has a special interest in transport insurance—which he even lists among his hobbies.
John Wilson, marketing director of Grey-Green coaches, joined George Ewer and Co in August last year from Eastern National where as assistant traffic manager (commercial) for eight years he specialized in Continental tours development. Mr Wilson began his career in 1945 with London Transport and served in a variety of departments, notably the traffic development office dealing with road service licensing.