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Over the year he devotes probably six days a month

23rd October 1959
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to Association business, apart from directing four companies, and seldom leaves his office before 7 p.m. He has little time for those plays that he likes so much—plays with scintillating dialogue or with powerful court scenes. The golf that he took up has largely been abandoned, and his early modest aspirations as a light pianist have died. Now he never touches a piano outside the family circle. Even his Jaguar car is not greatly used, for he avoids long journeys if he can.

But he is by no means a transport bore_ On the contrary, he is as agreeable and restful a companion as one could wish for. The warm handshake, the quick smile, the sparkling blue eyes—these are the outward characteristics of a man who enjoys more than anything the company of his friends over a quiet drink. He talks easily about the pleasant. ordinary things—his boisterous. gregarious Staffordshire bull terrier, Mantovani's vibrant string section—and the less comfortable, such as Russian duplicity and the possibility of atomic warfare.

He realizes, however, that he must cultivate recreation. He has good managers and staff, and when his term of office in the R.H.A. ends he means to travel more, and to do all the other things which most successful businessmen have perforce to neglect in their younger days. He is going to take time off from transport, although it will probably be never far below his conscious level of thought.

Where are Tomorrow's Executives?

Among other things, Mr. Ingram is concerned about the training of young men to be the road transport executives of tomorrow. He believes that with the formation of medium-sized and large haulage companies by amalgamation—a natural process interrupted by nationalization—it will be possible to provide well-educated boys with stimulating opportunities.

He thinks also there is a reasonable chance that the Socialists will now have to abandon for ever the policy of renationalization of road haulage. Then, with settled political conditions, the industry will become more attractive to the right type of recruit to management.

That will be the kind of problem which will be uppermost in his mind when he presides, for the second time. at the R.H.A. annual conference at Bournemouth, next week. His direction of the proceedings will be unobtrusive, but, nevertheless, firm and expeditious. His dignity will convey a sense of occasion, and even the most truculent delegate will be handled with the utmost courtesy and tact.

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