Room at the top in BRS
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National Freight Corporation company Western British Road Services has announced two senior management promotions.
Brian Buckley has been appointed distribution director for Western BRS. He joined the company in 1969 as operations manager for the British district and in January, 1976, he became distribution manager. Mr Buckley is a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport as well as being an associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.
The other man on the move at Western BRS is Gordon North. He has been appointed a director with special responsibility for general haulage operations. Mr North joined BRS in 1949 as a junior clerk and spent periods at parcels depots in Leeds, Boston and Sheffield before becoming Harrogate branch manager in 1965. Two years later he transferred to Warrington branch and then in 1969 he went to Western BRS at its Bristol branch. In November, 1974, Mr North moved to the Avonmouth branch where he is currently general manager. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
Another NEC subsidiary, National Carriers, has lost one of its directors. He is Bernard Warner, group director of planning and development at NCL.
Mr Warner left the company in order to develop his own interests in consultancy, writing and lecturing. He joined NCL back in 1974, primarily to assist the company in becoming profitable. NCL's Chinaflow and Fashionflow operations are two of the projects that Mr Warner worked on.
Eric Perry is the depot manager at the new Sheffield depot of Manchester Tankers, which is again part of the NFC.
Mr Perry, who joined the company in 1975, is preset Northern area sales manal based at Warrington. As h of the new Sheffield depot, will be responsible for exp ding the company's servi for disposing liquid and tc wastes, and offering contr hire of tankers.
Pickfords Heavy Haul; has named Frank Smith as new sales engineer for electrical and mechanical vices at its Liverpool bran Before moving to Pickfo Heavy Haulage, Mr Smith with Bell and Webster.
The Centre for Physi Distribution Management a new manager. He is R mond Horsley, a member the CPDM board since started.
Mr Horsley has been volved in distribution with and was transport contro for the Rank Organisati Before coming to the CPI he was operations manager Fisher Price Toys based Brussels, where he had ove responsibility for distribut arcing and stock control. In dition to being a Fellow of e Chartered Institute of ansport, Mr Horsley is also examiner for the CIT's final ysical distribution manageait paper.
National Bus Company sublary Ribble has announced o new traffic appointments, cessary after the retirement Arthur Caine, the assistant iffic manager (administraon), who left Ribble this tk after 49 years' service. rim Archer, is now the cornny's operations manager, d also holds the title of dety traffic manager. He was Trierly the assistant traffic tnager (operations).
Richard Bailey joins Ribble planning and development wager. Before going to 3ble he was assistant traffic wager at NBC subsidiary est Riding, where he has an since 1977. Mr Bailey has wiously worked with Ribble well as Midland General and St Midland.
Nilr Bailey's position at the est Riding Group as assistt traffic manager has been ,cen by George Peach. Mr ach, who takes up his new st on Monday was premsly area traffic superin tendent (central) at the West Riding Group, and before this was with Trent Motor Traction.
The Marshall Group, which has interests in road haulage, commercial vehicle sales and warehousing, has appointed Jim Alvey as a director.
He joined the Marshall Group in 1955 as a driver, and has been Nottingham depot and warehouse manager since 1967. As a director he is now responsible for the group's new depot at Leigh in Lancashire, where he will control Marshall's haulage, groupage services to Ireland, Continental services and distribution, Trailer manufacturer Crane Fruehauf has announced the appointment of Tom Lynchy as group manufacturing director. Mr Lynchy, who was formerly general manager at the Murex division at the British Oxygen Company, will be based at the Crane Fruehauf offices in Dereham, Norfolk.
The rental company of another major trailer manufacturer, York, has also made a new appointment.
Roy Smith has joined York Rentals as national sales manager. He comes from the continental shipping line, Contship, and was with another trailer rental company, Transport International Pool, before that. In his new positi he has overall responsibili for sales and administration all the York Rental centr throughout the UK.
Jack Conn has recently be named as manager of 131 Dart Transport's depot Paisley. Mr Conn, who mov to the company in April, w previously manager of t Glasgow depot at Kwikasair Howard Dodds has be appointed as a sales executi to promote the Ford Operati Cost Analysis System pr vided through Lowndes-AjE Mr Dodds will be marketi. the computer operated servi to fleet managers, and will based at the Lowndes Aj centre at Warrington.