Transport tributes
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THE WORLD of transport has harvested a particularly heavy crop of tributes in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours List. There are no fewer than three new knights with transport connections, a CB and five CBEs.
New Knights Batchelor are: Leonard Harper Gow, deputy chairman of Christian Salvesen; Pat Lowry, chairman of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS); and Bob Reid, chairman of British Railways Board,
Sir Leonard, who is deputy chairman of Christian Salvesen, has been on the board of the Edinburgh based food distribution group since 1952. He was its chairman from 1964 to 1981, when he stepped down to take his present role.
Before he was appointed chairman of ACAS in 1981, Pat Lowry had a career with BL in senior personnel management going back to 1970. For the last three years he was director of personnel and external affairs with the state owned vehicle manufacturer.
Sir Pat Lowry, as he would prefer to be known, will be one of the speakers at CM's Fleet Management Conference on October 17.
BR's chairman, Sir Robert Reid, is a past president of the Chartered Institute of Transport. The Order of the Bath has been awarded to David Holmes, who is deputy secretary at the Department of Transport.
Honours have also gone to other civil servants in transport. Arthur Robertson, Chairman of the Traffic Commissioners for the Metropolitan Traffic Area, and Thomas Warnock, who retired earlier this year as director of road services with the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, both receive CBEs.
So to do John Armstrong, chairman of the Road Transport Industry Training Board, James Isaac, director general of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive and William Stevenson, chairman of the Scottish Transport Group.
The list of OBEs in the Birthday Honours List includes Ian Dallison, manager of inland transport with the British Steel Corporation and Ted Hains. Mr Hains, as well as being management consultant to P & 0 European Transport Services, is a member of the executive board of the Road Haulage Association. He has served both organisations for many years, having been chairman of P & 0 Road Services' road haulage companies and chairman of RI-IA Insurance Ser
vices, which he helped to set up.
Recipents of the MBE include Beatrice Davies, a clerical officer at the DTp; R. Jenkyn, principal civil engineering assistant (planning), London Regional Transport; Margaret Richards, a member of the Transport Users Consultative Committee for Wales; W. R. Steeley, a depot manager with Ulsterbus; and J. G. Watson, manager of the Transport Users Consultative Committee for Scotland.
BEMs have been awarded to E. G. Barrett, an engine tester with Petters; A. Beat tie, lately engineering foreman, Ulsterbus; J. Hucker, a bus driver with Midland Fox; S. Jagger, driver, West Yorkshire PTE; H. Kelshaw, driver BR Freightliners; W. C. Paterson, fitter with the Falkirk public service vehicle bodybuilder W. Alexander and Co; D. Robertshaw, bus driver, West Yorkshire PTE; and G. Robertson, a professional and technical officer at the DTp.
Imperial Service Orders recipients include DTp per
sonnel T. Barrett (engineering superintendant); W. H. Cooper (senior principal); and principal officers D. J. Ewright and H. H. Knight.