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service is 25-year-old Brian Tarriplar who moves from British Road Services to take on his new appointment.
Mr Templar will head a team of regional contract service managers. He is a former systems analyst for BRS and was based at the company's Whetstone headquarters.
Other new members of the NCI.. Contract Services team are John Blaylock who has spent 26 years with British Rail and NCL. He takes over the Eastern region and will be based at Peterborough.
In the North West Jack Torevell becomes regional manager; he was (district manager for the Tyne and Wear area and the move to Manchester will be a return home for Lancastrian Jack.: Barry Pelmore stays in Bristol to become regional manager for the Western region and Hatold Baden stays in his. Leeds home to take on the North East region.
Another..RS headquarters man. Jim Verdin becomes regional manager for southern England while Bill Clark takes on the Scottish area moving from Scottish Road Services (Forth) Ltd to his new Glasgow base.
And in the Midlands Mike Childs will be based in Birmingham as contracts service manager.
Thyssen (Great Britain) transport manager E. G. Sladczyk is the new chairman of the South Wales and Monmouthshire section of the Chartered Institute of Transport. J. J. Evans is the immediate past chairman and W. F. Cooper, D. R. Smith and N. IL Wynn are the vice-chairmen.
At National Freight Corporation company Harold Wood and Sons of Heckmonwike Alan Bridge has been appointed general manager. He moves • from Sutton and Sons where he was a manager. Mr Bridge • entered his family transport business in 1962 as a director before joining Howard Tenens Transport in 1969.
Also at the NFC Eric Moffat, the corporation's group controller of finance, is to retire at the age of 62. Mr Moffat held a number of financial appointments around the NFC group and played a large part in the 1947 road haulage nationalisation.
A 20-strong contingent of drivers from the Argos company has been awarded Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents awards for having covered a million accident free miles last year.
On the passenger front former Southport mayor Jean Leech has been elected chairman of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Committee. Mrs Leech — awarded the OBE in 1973 — has been in local government since 1962 and has toured most of the PTE services since she joined the Southport transport committee in 1973.
Alex Clark has become Bournemouth manager of National Travel (South West) and has taken responsibility for the new express operating unit after being in charge of the Shamrock and Rambler coaching unit of National Travel.
Royal Blue traffic controller John Price has moved to become express services superintendent with direct control of staffing and day to day operations while Jack Gleeson, Bournemouth Royal Blue superintendent of traffic since 1966, retires after serving with Western National and its predecessors since 1930.
Coach operator Roy Anderson has been elected chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport's south western section. Mr Anderson holds the posts of operations manager for National Travel (South West) and manager of Greenslades, West Country coach operators.
Immediate past chairman is H. R. Ellis and vice-chairman M the section are C. R. F. Bowden, B. T. Hancock and W. L Ives.
Brian Barret is the new regional planning and development officer for the National Bus Company's western region. He moves from Midland Red to take up his new job.
At West Yorkshire Miles Whittle has been appointed data processing manager. He comes from the Manchester Ship Canal company to take up his new job.
Ribble assistant traffic manager Ian Buchan is the new traffic manager of the West Riding group in succession to David Rabey who has become traffic manager of the Maidstone and East Kent companies.
Obituary
It is with regret that we announce the death of former transport fleet operator and Brighton council alderman Victor Nicholls who has died at the age of 83.
Mr Nicholls began his transport career after the First World War with one ex-army lorry. By 1944 he had 264 vehicles and when he sold out to Associated Coal and Wharf Companies in 1961 he had a fleet of 700 vehicles and the takeover price was £500,000.
Mr Nicholls was one of the early advocates of articulated vehicles and in 1947 each of his tractive units had three trailers.