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Len Evans
• Quiet and unassuming but with a definite policy for his year of office as national chairman of the Institute of Traffic Administration, to which he was elected a fortnight ago, is Len Evans, co-ordinator of the South-eastern and South-western regions of the Transport (Road) Division of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd.
Participation and co-operation are to be the precepts which will be given prominence during the next 12 months of loTA meetings under his chairmanship. Len believes that the older members have a lot of experience which will be useful to the younger members of the association and it is his hope that a willingness to impart this will encourage the youngsters to participate more in the association's affairs.
As the former secretary of the new reconstituted and renamed Transport Manager's Licensing Committee, he came to recognize the usefulness of co-operation between trade and professional associations. He believes that projecting this co-operation into the everday affairs of those bodies will produce a worthwhile exchange of ideas, and this he hopes to encourage, too.
Of Welsh parentage, born in Liverpool and brought up in Kent, where he still lives at Tunbridge Wells, Len Evans has been on the transport scene since 1939 when he joined the Petroleum Board which dispensed the wartime pool petrol. After a couple of years with the RAF as a radar operator, he rejoined the Petroleum Board and then joined Shell-Mex and BP.
He has been a member of the loTA since 1956 and has held the offices of vice-chairman of the Southampton centre and chairman of the London centre. He has been on the national council for 12 years.
He was hon. secretary of the Freight Transport Association's London area centre from 1966 to 1972 and secretary of the former Transport Manager's Licensing Committee from 1968 to 1971. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
Essentially a family man, with two daughters and a son whom he describes as an ardent anti-pollutionist, Len is prominent in local church affairs as well as being treasurer of the Shell-Mex House Christian Fellowship.
The 3500 members of the loTA will appreciate his down-to-earth attitude in the coming year for, while not discounting the importance of social functions, he intends to make contact with as many centres as possible at working meetings. J. J.