Top Scots bus jobs in shake up
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from a special correspondent
A MAJOR shake-up in the top jobs in Scotland's public transport industry is now under way. Three important new posts are being created as a result of Scottish local government reform which is due to be implemented next April. By coincidence the highest-paid transport job in Scotland managing director of the Scottish Transport Group — is to become vacant shortly and is being advertised.
The STG post is presently occupied by Mr Moris Little but he is to retire "early next year," according to his office at Carron House, Edinburgh, home of the Scottish Bus Group. He joined STG 1 years ago from Edinburgh Corporation, where he was general manager. The job is now being advertised nationally by a firm of management consultants at a negotiable salary "in excess of £12,000 pa".
The Scottish industry was this week full of speculation about likely candidates for the job. Because several existing STG directors are themselves approaching retirement age there is a strong body of opinion which believes the post will be filled by an outsider. Likely candidates within Scotland are not numerous. One po, sibility is Mr Ronald Cox, former Edinburgh gm, but his move to set up the Greater Glasgow PTE would perhaps seem rather too recent.
The three new jobs -for directors of public transportation — are for the three new regions created by local government reform in Lothian, Grampian and Tayside. The Lothian region is by far the largest, containing as it does the Edinburgh undertaking, Britain's largest municipal bus operator. The gm there, who replaced Mr Cox, is Mr Richard Bottrill. Some Scottish observers this week expressed surprise that the job should be advertised nationally (at a possible £.10,000 plus salary) with such an obvious applicant so near at hand. Similar