• Presenting the Alex Price Award for Customer Care to
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Barry Baynham of Tyn Lon Garage of Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Volvo Concessionnaires managing director Philip Payze said: "Teamwork is the key to customer care and the Tyn Lon team have again set a shining example in treating every customer as a VIP."
• Ian Burn Jameson, 28, who joined the marketing department of TI Bainbridge Silencers at Preston in 1982, now succeeds Peter Howson as marketing manager. Howson moves to the London group offices as corporate executive.
Jameson, a business studies graduate, heads the department's team of products managers and reports to sales director Tony Bradley.
Ian Hawkrigg, 27, also a business studies graduate, be
comes product manager sileners. He has been with the company for five years.
Gary Ayerst, who joined in 1979 as a driver and warehouseman, is moving from Crawely, Sussex, to become manager of the South West "super depot" at Fishponds, Bristol, responsible for Timax replacement exhaust products and Truclunaster commercial vehicle silencers.
• Milton Keynes-based Central Tyre has established a technical services department and appointed Maurice Marriot, for 35 years with Pirelli, mainly in the commercial sector, as manager.
The new department will offer advice on cost-effective tyres (brand and type) to suit individual applications, and information on legislation and how it affects operators. Detailed tyre maintenance programmes can be prepared.
• Spinney Trading of Blackheath, West Midlands, has won the Souriau (UK) Distributor of the Year award; it was received by managing director Peter Wright. Overall salesman of the Year for garage equipment was Bob Lock of The Garage Equipment Specialists, Plymouth; Diagnostic salesman was Alan Malpass (Spinney Trading), and vehicle life salesman Leo Boles (Advanced Tools of Kinnington, Oxford).
• Brian Groves, who has spent 25 years in precision engineering and metal fabrication, will co-ordinate technical and production aspects as production director at pressure cleaning machine manufacturer Psimat of Henley-on-Thames.
• Grahame Kitchin, 37, formerly with the Fairways dealership of Preston, becomes Halifax-based FKI Claydrum's sales development man
ager, workshop division. "We offer a total project management capability that ensures efficient space utilisation and optimum use of existing workshop skills and new capital equipment," he says.
At Fairways, Kitchin was responsible for the group's bodyshop and after-sales operation. Before that, he was regional sales manager for Affiliated Factors of Doncaster, the garage equipment and tools arm of GKN. In his spare time he restores a Triumph TR3 and plays rugby for Preston Grasshoppers.