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Ken Justice
• Ken Justice has been marketing manager with BRSL in Scotland for only a few weeks but already he is making his presence felt. It seems that more press releases have emanated from Bothwell Street in three weeks than in the past three years—a burst of activity is to be expected from Ken Justice, who tells me he never really stops working save when on his annual vacation. Like most successful men. Ken believes that the brain should never be allowed to slow down to a point where it needs a great deal of effort to get it moving again. Consequently, his is constantly active.
A Nottingham man, he moved to Scotland 11 years ago—he now lives in East Kilbrideand was first employed by A and D Fraser, in those days BMC agents. Five years later he entered the transport field as the Scottish sales manager of Tartan Arrow, where he gained his first knowledge of road transport. Ken Justice now sees his job as one of promoting the image of BRSL north of the border. "We've got to be known as the leading operator in Scotland," he said.
With his eye on the future, Ken has been studying the report of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and in particular their Ocean-Span Scheme. The Council sees central Scotland as a land bridge between America and Europe with North Atlantic traffic being discharged into a massive transfer terminal and reconsigned through the Scottish ports of Dundee. Leith and Grangemouth for Scandinavia and Northern European Ports. He plans that BRS should get the lion's share of the traffic.
This man is a real go-getter and his very presence electrifies the atmosphere. "You're going to hear a lot about BRS Scotland from now on," he told me.
Ken Justice is a restless man; at 15 he left the Matthew Holland school in Selston, Notts, and, as he put it, almost ran away to the navy. In fact—in 1953—he did join the Royal Navy, as an engineer in the Fleet Air Arm. At 25 he joined the aero engine test division of RollsRoyce and then came the most traumatic experience of his life—he was made redundant. It was then he made his mind up that never again would he be unemployed, and having spoken to him I doubt if he ever will. LS.