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John Jepson, chief engineer of the Eastern National Omnibus Co Ltd and Tillings Travel (NBC) Ltd. has been appointed chief engineer for the Central Activities Group in London and the South East. Mr Jepson joined the industry in 1936; his previous posts include those of senior body designer for Marshall's Motor Bodies Ltd, and technical assistant to the chief engineer of Charles A. Wells Ltd.
G. W. Shaw, assistant chief engineer of Western National Omnibus Co Ltd, has been appointed chief engineer designate, Black and White Motorways Ltd. Mr Shaw will be responsible for engineering. matters of the Central Activities Group throughout the South West and especially for Black and White Motorways. Shamrock and Rambler Motor Coaches and Greenslades Tours.
John A. H. Russell, previously fleet engineer with Jeyes UK Ltd, of Thetford, Norfolk, has been appointed transport manager.
John E. Perkins, tours manager of East Kent Road Car Co Ltd and Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd has been appointed tours manager designate, London and the South East. of National Travel (NBC) Ltd. His appointment will take effect from September 1.
Ron Eamonson has rejoined the York Trailer Co Ltd as director of manufacturing at its Corby. Northants. trailer plant. He returns after a brief spell with Jensen Motors Ltd where he was general works manager.
Sir George Farmer, deputy chairman of British Leyland and chairman of the Rover Triumph Organisation, is to retire when he reaches 65 on May 13. W. H. Davis, md of Triumph Motors, becomes md of Rover Triumph, whose activities are being integrated, and A. B. Smith moves from Rover's managing directorship to be its non-executive chairman.
FTA elections
A. C. Nokes (John Lee and Son (Grantham) Ltd) has been elected chairman of the East Midlands division of the South Eastern area of the Freight Transport Association; vice-chairman is J. E. Williams (Ketton Portland Cement Co Ltd).
Other FTA elections —
Northants area: chairman C. H. Thornton (Heygates Ltd, Northampton): vice-chairmen D. D. Boote (Golden Wonder Ltd, Market Harborough) and D. S. Edgar (Weetabix Ltd, Burton Latimer),
North Lincolnshire area chairman A. Gilliver (Eccles Transport Ltd, Scunthorpe): vice-chairman D. H. Teesdale (Jointine Products Co Ltd, Lincoln). Northern division — North East area chairman A. Davison (James A. Jobling and Co Ltd, Sunderland); vice-chairman F. Gibson (Vickers Ltd. Newcastle).
North Western division — Manchester and district: chairman W. R. Peel, (Louis C. Edwards & Sons (Transport) Ltd(; vicechairman W. Gannidiffe IC.W.S. Ltd, Manchester). Shropshire area chairman F. Ellis (G.K.N. Sankey, Wellington). vice-chairman A. E. Jones (Midland Poultry Holdings Ltd, Craven Arms): secretary P. Target (Associated Family Bakers, Shropshire).
RHA elections
J. D. M. Olds (Cornwall Farmers Ltd) has been elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association's West Cornwall sub-area: vice-chairman B. A. Rundle (C. A Rundle and Sons Ltd): secretary F. C. Kneehone (Rowe and Company).
Harold Digger is to join the divisional board of Rolls
Royce Motors Diesels Division at Shrewsbury as director — manufacture.. Mr Digger joined Sentinel (Shrewsbury) Ltd in 1955 to take up an appointment in production engineer ing. Rolls-Royce took over Sentinel in 1957 as its Oil Engine Division and Mr Digger became works manager in 1965.
K. Gaskell, National Coal Board northwestern area road transport manager, is to succeed R. I. Smith as commercial manager, road transport service. Mr Smith is now S. Notts staff manager/secretary. B. J. Evans moves up to S. Wales area road transport manager following the merger of the East and West Wales areas. K. E. Brown is now S. Wales road transport service manager.
George Brook, western regional director of the National Bus company, received his OBE from the Queen last week. Mr Brook is a former gm of the North Western Road Car Company, and Ribble Motor Services, two of the 10 bus companies in the North and West for which he is now responsible as regional director of the NBC.
Sidney Cooper, 49, has been appointed assistant area engineer of South Wales Transport Co Ltd. He began with the company as an apprentice.
J. A. Coulson, 57, has been appointed chief driving examiner to succeed W. R. Prew when he retires on April 6; Mr Coulson helped in preparing the DoE's manual Driving.
Clifford H. Fletcher, 35. has been appointed assistant traffic manager of The City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd with effect from April 1. He is at present traffic planning officer of Ribble Motor Services Ltd.
Obituary We record with regret the death of Norman Shortland.
Mr Shortland, 56, two years ago on grounds of ill health resigned as chairman of Morton's (BRS) Ltd, the Coventry transport company. He had then been with the company for 37 years, 20 of these as a director and seven as chairman. In May 1962, the company's transport division had a fleet of about 70 vehicles. By the time the company was acquired by BRS in 1966, it was operating 220 trucks serving industries throughout the UK and on the Continent. During the Second World War Mr Shortland served as a staff captain with the 8th Army. After the war he became industrial coal manager with Morton's. He joined the board of directors in 1951. A well-known sportsman in Warwickshire, he was awarded his county cricket cap in 1946. He became a director of Coventry City Football Club two years ago. After a series of coronary thromboses in 1970, Mr Shortland set himself a two-year target to recover his "peak fitness" and he returned to work as an independent transport and garage consultant and became a director of a number of Midlands companies, including Cartransport (MRS) Ltd. In 1971 he joined the board of E.H. Crinage and Son Ltd and the following year the board of Whitley Garage (Coventry) Ltd, part of the J. H. B. Jackson Group.