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THE Greater London Council has named Ian Phillips as a full-time member of the London Transport Executive with responsibility for finance and planning. Mr Phillips joined LT from the John Lewis Partnership in 1969 and has mainly been concerned with financial and corporate planning. James Glendinning, LT executive member for property and finance since 1972, retires at the end of the year and until then will concentrate on property matters and pension fund management.
Still at LT, Derek Fisk is now the new chief for the Watling district. He takes over all aspects of bus operations in the Northwest London area from Jim Oliver who has retired after 34 years in the indUstry. Mr Fisk has been involtied with the Country Bus dePartment of LT and with Central (red) buses. He has worked in the commercial and marketing departments, but for the last three years has been LT's public relations officer.
James Featherstone chief executive of the Meadows Group, has accepted an invitation to join the Transport Policy Board of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce.
White Truck Concessionaires Ltd has named Alan Vincent as technical director, responsible for engineering and production. He joins White from Jensen Special Products Ltd, a company he helped to form.
Geoffrey Moss has been made a non-executive director of the board of York Trailer Holdings Ltd. For nine years Mr Moss was managing director of Edbro Holdings Ltd, prior to which he was managing director of the shipbuilding subsidiary of Cammell Laird Ltd.
Richard Binch has taken over the new post of personnel manager of Edbro Ltd after spending more than four years ONE of the most respected and versatile of transport journalists, Paul Allen Clive Brockington, died on July 16 at Stratford-onAvon at the age of 71. Until his retirement in 1974 he was Midland editor of Commercial Motor, based in Birmingham.
In his youth he was a racing motorcyclist and rode with distinction in the 1927 IT on a machine that he had prepared himself. About ten years later he went to South Africa as technical officer to the AA, and when war broke out he enlisted with the air-sea rescue branch of the South African Air Force.
He joined Temple Press Ltd, the original proprietors of CM, to work in the Midlands, principally on Commercial Motor.
Although he came from a literary family. Paul wrote meticulously rather than rapidly. I have known him to work nearly all night to produce an article that met his own high standards.
He would tackle any subject, from the technical, and political to personal profiles, and for recreation he wrote, among other things, children's stories and even turned his hand to playwriting.
He did not entirely forsake the slide-rule for the typewriter and developed a variablecompression piston which unfortunately he was unable to market.
Paul was a man of warmth and compassion, and would help anyone. Above all else, he liked people.
Those who would have wished to send flowers to Paul's funeral may care to make a donation to the Cancer Research Campaign, for which Paul's widow, Marjorie, would be
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