John Barber is to join the board of The Leyland
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Motor Corporation Ltd. as finance director, early in the new year. He will be directly responsible to Sir Donald Stokes, the chairman and managing director, for all the financial aspects of the Group's expanding activities at home and overseas. Walter Boardman, a director of Standard-Triumph, will continue as group financial accountant.
N. P. Biggs is to become chairman and chief executive of Esso Petroleum Company Ltd., on January I. He succeeds Sir Hugh Tett who earlier this year announced his intention to retire at the end of 1967 after nearly 40 years' service with the company, ten of them as chief executive.
Also from January 1, D. A. C. Dewdney has been elected vice-chairman of the company.
He will continue in his current office of managing director.
Mr. Biggs first became a director of Esso Petroleum in 1952. Five years later he became managing director, and in 1964 he was elected vice-chairman.
John F. Crittall has been appointed to the board of Thomas Tilling Ltd. as a non-executive director. Mr. Crittall is deputy chairman of Crittall-Hope Ltd., and chairman and managing director of Crittall Manufacturing Company Ltd.
The President of the Board of Trade has appointed Sidney Greene to the Export Credit Guarantee Department's 12-man Advisory Council to replace Lord Douglass, former chairman of the TUC. Lord Douglass resigned from the Council upon his retirement in September.