Phil Turner to join NFC as freight planner
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• Mr. P. H. R. Turner, assistant managing director of Coast Lines Ltd., and immediate past national chairman of the RHA, is to join the National Freight Corporation as director of freight planning. Announcing the appointment this week, the NFC stated that he would shortly leave his present position with the Liverpool-based company to take up his new duties, and that the appointment had been made with the agreement of Coast Lines "who are conscious of the loss to them of such an able and experienced director, but nevertheless appreciate that the national interest will be well served by this move".
At the NFC, Philip Turner will operate as one of the chief officers directly under the chief executive, Mr. Quick Smith, and his relationship with the operating companies is likely to be primarily an advisory one; it is not NFC policy to intervene directly in company affairs—a carry-over of THC policy.
This is a new post within the NEC, but when Mr. T. G. Gbh was appointed to the then new position of director of freight planning to the Transport Holding Company (a post which he held until taking charge of the Freightliner operation) this was to enable the planning and operating functions of the THC to be separated. The new NFC appointment reflects a continuation of this arrangement.
Mr. Turner, who is 53, was elected national chairman of the Road Haulage Association in 1966 and served with distinction in this office for the two difficult years leading up to the Transport Bill. When elected in 1966 he was controller of road transport for Coast Lines, having formerly been general manager of the Thomas Allen road haulage subsidiary. He is at present on the boards of the Coast Lines road transport companies.