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• GARDNER LITTLEMORE Gardner Engines has promoted Allan Littlemore to
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the newly-created position of sales and marketing manager. Littlemore will lead a team promoting new and existing products in the automotive and marine markets, as well as after market support.
He has been with Gardner for three years as sales manager, truck applications; before that he was with Foden.
• LEASING PRINCIPALS
HUNTLEY John Huntley is new business development manager with Leasing Principals, the vehicle lease and fleet management firm. He previously worked for Avis Car Leasing.
• OCEAN TRANSPORT AND TRADING WEST Chief executive of Reckitt and Colman, John West has joined the board of Ocean Transport and Trading as a non-executive director.
The company carries out distribution and handling throughout the world.
• SAAB.SCANIA SHIPMAN William Shipman has been promoted to sales manager with Saab-Scania America's bus division and also retains his present responsibility contract administration.
Shipman joined Scania in 1983 as marketing manager. Reporting to him will be Joel Abraman and Fred Kastead.
• Pit HISTORIC OMNIBUS
COLLEDGE Jeff Colledge has become marketing manager of PK Historic Omnibus, the tour operator based in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire.
Colledge will run a Clay Cross office, publicising PK's tour and excursion programme.
• TRIJCKLINE WAITE Ken Waite is the new port manager at Poole for Truckline, the Brittany Ferries Group freight company. He will be responsible for ship operations at Poole and the group's central freight reservations system.
Waite was previously with P&O and in 1985 joined Channel Island Ferries as marketing manager.
• PETROLINK DORRICOTT Petrolink Systems, the Mid lands liquids storage and con ' trol engineer, has set up a tank { gauging division, appointing Robin Dorricott as general manager. He will be based in St Helens.
• NIC AWARD TRIMBLE The Northern Ireland Carriers prize for the top student in the first year of Ulster University's BSc (Hons) degree in Transport Technology has been won by Gail Trimble from Lisburn.
She is pictured with Professor James Williamson, the university's head of transport studies, and George Owens, managing director of NIC.
• MA HUTCHINSON John Hutchinson has been appointed a regional general manager of Central Motor Auctions, covering Glasgow and Manchester.
Hutchinson, an experienced auctioneer in the North of England, was formerly manager of CMA Manchester. He is succeeded there by Eamon Longmore.
• TNT CONTRACTS GRA HAMS LAW David Grahamslaw is the new Distribution Consultant with TNT Contract Services. Grahamslaw has been with the Atherstone-based company for just over a year, as business development manager.
He will be responsible for sales development in the retail distribution sector, particularly chilled, frozen and ambient food products, as well as white goods, brown goods and DIY products. Grahamslaw previously worked with the SPD Group and Geest.
• NTDA
SHIELDS Malcom Shields, group sales director with Fossitt and Thorne, has been elected vicepresident of the National Tyre Distributors Association, following the October meeting of the NTDA executive council.
Shields joined Fossitt and Thorne as a sales representative in 1972 after working with Thorneycroft, the Co-Op and Hoover. He is currently responsible for group sales, training, promotions and advertising. In addition to serving in the NTDA executive council, Shields is also a member of the president's committee and the car and light van and career training committees of the council.
• NATIONAL BUS COMPANY HARMER National Bus executive director Philip Harmer is to leave the company at the end of November after 23 years in the bus industry.
Harmer began his career as company secretary at Timpson's Coaches in 1965 before moving to East Yorkshire Motor Services in 1968 and then to Southdown Motor Services in 1972. In 1975 he was appointed general manager of South Wales Transport at Swansea.
Then in 1982 he was made NBC's regional executive for Wales and the North before becoming a divisional director of the group in 1984.
Since the cessation of NBC's regional structure Harme has chaired a small portfolio of subsidiary companies helping them prepare for privatisation.