Valour award for consortium staff
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THE CHAIRMAN'S award for actions of outstanding merit or valour, which Sir Daniel Pettit initiated for National Freight Corporation employees, is being perpetuated by Peter Thompson in the consortium. No recommendations for its presentation have so far been made to him, but meanwhile Harry Batty, regional director of National Carriers Contract Services, has individually rewarded one of his drivers' courage and quick thinking.
Gwyn Barfoot, a night trunk driver on a service between Gloucester and Swansea, risked injury when he unhitched his burning tractor from a semitrailer carrying a valuable load of Ford spare parts urgently needed to repair vehicles off the road. Harry Batty went to meet him as he booked on for the night shift at Gloucester and surprised him with a cheque for £50.