Honours for all ranks
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MEN and women in transport featured prominently in this year's New Year's Honours list — amongst them a high proportion of drivers.
Awards were as follows: KB: Brian Smith Kellet, chairman, Tube Investments Ltd; Bernard Francis W. Scott, CBE TD, chairman, Lucas Industries Ltd.
CB: M. W. Holdgate, director-general of research Department of Environment and Transport.
— CBE: E. R. Knapp, MD, Timken Europe; C. K. Spinks, assistant secre
tary, Department of Transport.
OBE: R. Beckham, MD, SPD Distribution Ltd; P. L. C. Brazier, RHA, Kent; T. M. Cronin, TGWU; J. M. Featherston, chief executive, Thomas Meadows International Ltd; P. E. Carbutt, MBE, chief secretary, London Transport Executive; S. Gortway, Smiths Industries; J. N. Harris, deputy chairman, IPC Business Press Ltd.
MBE: J. F. C. Brown, secretary, Norfolk Community Bus Committee; D. T. Davies, TGWU, Wales; C. E. Foxlee, secretary, Eastern Counties Omnibus Co; P. Moxam, senior training asst. London Transport Executive; Joyce Winifred Shelland, senior executive officer, Department of Transport; Patricia G. Stokoe, NCL; H. H. Swannick, marketing director, Western BRS Ltd; William Young, TGWU.
BEM: R. A. Arnold, Vauxhall Motors Ltd; R. D. Fitzgerald, driver, Oxford CC: G. Haigh, transport section mechanic, British Gas North-East; G. Hird, transport section mechanic, British Gas North East, F. W. R. Johnson, for services to road safety; Janus Paton, transport clerk, Edinburgh District Council; P. Ryan, lorry driver. Eastern ERS Ipswich; H. Smith, lorry driver, NCL; G. White, driver, York, shire Traction Co; P. Wilcox, charge. hand driver. Ministry of Defence.