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GEORGE RUFF, deputy managing director of P&O European Transport Services, takes on divisional board resonsibility for P&O Group companies Ferrymasters, Pandoro and Northern Ireland Trailers (Scotland). He will also be responsible for the total P&O European Transport Services finance function.
Potteries Motor Traction has appointed STEVEN ELLIS assistant traffic manager. He takes over from ROBIN ORBELL. Mr Ellis was formerly area traffic superintendent for West Riding. He joined the National Bus Company. in 1973 as a senior management trainee with West Yorkshire Road Car. He moved to South Wales Transport in 1975 and to West Riding in 1977.
JIM RIGNALL has been taken on by Mitchell Cotts Transport Services to act as depot manager for its Plymouth branch. He will help develop the contract transport and distribution business in the South West.
City of Oxford Motor Services has promoted NICHOLAS CROOK to assistant secretary in succession to DAVID FOSTER. Mr Crook was previously systems administrator with the company.
Camac Transport of the Republic of Ireland has re-organised its board of directors. LEO CURRAN, company owner, takes over as chairman. JOSEPH CURRAN, JOHN O'DRISCOLL and BILL RIORDAN have been chosen as fellow directors.
MIKE CHARLES has become a director at Northern Ireland Trailers (Scotland). He joined the company in 1977 and was appointed general manager in 1980.
The Crystal Organisation's truck rental and contract hire division has taken on MIKE ROBERTSON as truck rental and contracts manager.
Two new Directors have been appointed to the board of Volvo Trucks (Great Britain). They are JOHN BRYANT and MATS (HA PALM.
John Bryant becomes the third British member of the board and the appointment is successive to his previous position as general manager controlling both assembly and parts divisions. He will now be totally responsible for all technical matters concerning Volvo commercial freight and passenger vehicles in Britain, and will control the design and manufacture of those British-built vehicles destined for export markets.
Mats Ola Palm is currently marketing director of Volvo parts division in Gothenburg, with world-wide responsibility for truck, bus and car parts.
JIM LAIVIONT has been promoted to director and general manager of Ailsa Trucks (Northern) Ltd, the Volvo lorry and bus distributor at Barrhead, Glasgow. Following this appointment, TOM GOURLEY takes over as general sales manager and JOHN MILLER as fleet sales manager.
Daihatsu (UK) has made LAURENCE KEMMISH managing direc tor. He has been associated wi the company since its inceptio initially as director of marketir services and latterly as direct and general manager. CHRISTI PHER TENNANT, previously ma aging director, has left the groL to form his own company.
MIKE BROWN has been tak€ on as director and general mai agar for PEM Trailer, the Bourn mouth based bodybuilders. 'takes over from retiring manal ing director GEORGE STOBBS. IH comes to the company fro' Wad ham Stringer where he wE field sales manager.