Toy for president
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SAM TOY, Ford of Britain's chairman for the past fiveand-a-half years, takes over the presidency of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders on June 12.
He succeeds Armstrong Equipment's Harry Hooper, who has been president since 1984.
A former SMMT president, Lucas Industries chairman Sir Godfrey Messervy, has been elected to a new post of senior vice-president and Harold Musgrove, chairman and chief executive of Austin Rover, becomes a vice-president along with AE chairman John CoIlyear.
Toy's career with Ford began in 1948 when he joined as a graduate trainee after war service and education at Cambridge University.
He was made head of export vehicle and tractor supply in 1951 and moved soon after to become supply manager of the same division. He became sales operations manager for car and truck exports in 1958 and from 1961 to 1963 was manager of British Ford sales in the United States.
After returning to Britain, he became head of the car division and later was made manager of the commercial vehicle division. From 1968 to 1969, he was director of truck sales, then director of Sales.
He joined the board of Ford of Britain in September 1974 and took over the chairmanship in 1980 after Sir Terence Beckett left to become director-general of the Confederation of British Industry.
Musgrove began his career as an Austin apprentice in Birmingham n and from 1963 to 1978 he worked in the senior management of the truck and bus divisions of BMC and later Leyland. For a time, he headed the truck operation at the Bathgate plant in Scotland.