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Perkins in 'live action'
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• Perkins Engines rod Tony Gilroy welcomed 150 local business executives to a Department of Trade and Industry "live action" seminar on management sponsored by Lloyds Bank. Cliff Michelmore introduced simulated boardroom scenes designed to show prac
• Mariya Kalinina, the current "Miss Moscow", will be one of the models featured in the 1990 Unipart calendar,' again photographed by Lord Lichfield, who had the use of a 22-seat helicopter put at his disposal by his Soviet hosts to transport the crew to different locations throughout the USSR. Says Unipart group chief executive John Neill: We like to pride ourselves on being trendsetters." tice to stand firms in good stead as the single European market approaches. Perkins was chosen in view of its successful management practice. Lloyds' Mike Lucas explained they are in business to build business and teams will aid small and medium firms.
• Sean Pollock, who works for Ferndown Body Repair Centre (Heakin Edwards), Ferndown, Dorset, won this year's Vehicle Builders and Repairs Association Apprentice of the Year award (light vehicle repair section).
The vehicle painting section was won by Andrew French, who works for Les Howard, Station Garage Starbeck, in Harrogate.
Both winners received a prize from sponsors Sykes Pickavant and Herberts.
• Pirelli marketing manager — tyres, Simon Garner, has left to take up the position of director — OE sales with the newly acquired Pirelli Armstrong Tires Corporation in the USA. Pirelli's marketing department will continue to be headed by Peter Roberts, but will be restructured with managers as follows: C D Norris, national sales, replacement tyres; D A Sandivasci, OE sales; D W R Davis, marketing services — tyres; K Hurst, products — agricultural tyres; W S Mallett, retail marketing — car tyres; W Nickless, CV tyres; and P Tyson, marketing — car tyres. • From a disused shoe factory four years ago and with the expenditure of £4 million, Alan Day's works in Neasden, London, are leading the trend towards the "super-bodyshop," claims the firm. "We paid particular attention to noise, pollution, fire, and health and safety," says general manager Denis Malin. Retractable air lines, oxyacetyline and power points have now been joined by wall-mounted boxes of Molnlycke's A-Tork.
• Radiator manufacturer and distributor Serck Marston has been assessed to BS 5750 Part 2 Quality Assurance System (Radiator Manufacturing Division), "We are naturally delight ed, " says rod Phil Wragg. "These Standards act as a reassurance to existing and potential customers alike."
Serck Marston is a member of the BTR group and operates Europe's largest replacement service network for radiators and related cooling equipment.
• David Himsworth, 35, in the automotive trade since leaving school, becomes Birmingham depot manager for Bainbridge Silencers after experience as branch manager with GKN Autoparts, Leicester, and Godfrey Holmes, Newark, He succeeds Alan Hartland, who has left the company.
111 Greenhous Hanley's £1m centre (see page 4) at Stokeon-Trent was declared opened by Vauxhall Motors md Paul Tosch.
• John England, 35, is promoted national sales manager for Swift Equipment, based in new offices in Brislington. After spending seven years with Austin Rover's national group dealership and a year in the USA, England was a Renault dealership salesman for five years before joining Swift.
Stuart Wood, 37, moves up to general manager. His experience includes chartered management accountancy and being the founding financial director of a container sales and leasing company.