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WEST-COUNTRY haulage and temperature controlled transport specialist Langdon Industries Ltd has made Mike Donoghue, its new managing director. Mr Donoghue, who was born in Edinburgh, was previously the general manager of Frigoscandia's United Kingdom transport and distribution service and has spent over ten years in retail, wholesale, and cold store management. The company, which is part of the Tozer, Kemsley and Vlillbourn trading group, has also redesignated former managing director and chairman Philip Langdon's role. He remains chairman, and plans to ievote more time to business Jevelopment.
National Freight Company de)uty chairman Victor Paige has 3tepped down as a member of he Manpower Services Cornfission, and has been replaced )y Williams and Glyn's Bank
)ersonnel director Patrick .yons. And NFC chairman Sir iobert Lawrence, while remainng a board member of British tailways, has relinquished the )ost of vice-chairman of BRB.
Scotland and Northern Engand secretary of the British load Federation, Ian Brown, is paving to become chief execuive of Aberdeen Chamber of :ommerce. Before joining BRF -1 1975, Mr Brown was assistant ;cottish secretary of the Freight -ransport Association.
Scottish Transport Group nanaging director Ian Irwin has leen re-appointed as a part-time lc:lard member of the National lus Company until December 1,1982.
Former Leyland Vehicles /liddle East bus sales manager like Winter has joined Duple Vletsec) Ltd as its overseas mareting manager. He will be res ponsible for developing world markets for the entire Duple bus and coach ranges.
Peter Grosfeld moves from OAF Trucks' special products division to become application engineer (United Kingdom) with DAF Diesel. He will forge links with British manufacturers to provide a specialist engine engineering service.
Mike Bunn is now South of England sales engineer with Becker Lifts Ltd, the scissor lift, dock leveller, and loading bay equipment manufacturer. He is based at Northampton.
New chairman of the Teesside branch of the Transport Managers Club is Mike Devereux, a partner in removal firm K. W. Devereux and Sons. Mr Devereux, who succeeds Walter Diver, is also Teesside sub-area chairman of the British Association of Removers.
Obituary We record with regret the death of William Rainford, at 75. He founded William Rainford (Holdings) Ltd, hauliers and building services, Heysham Road, Netherton.
He took over his father's firm in 1929 and expanded into haulage in the 1930s. After the war, the firm extended into ready mixed concrete, demolition work, and associated engineering.