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SkPeterThornpson Hugh Featherstone, CBE.
PETER THOMPSON has been a knight in the New Year's Honours List. Mr Thompson, chairman and chief executive of the National Freight Consortium, is one of 34 new knights created by the Queen.
Sir Peter was the man behind the staff buy-out of the NFC from the Government.
Junior Transport Minister Reginald Eyre also received a knighthood, He was Junior Minister from March 1982 to June 1983.
Hugh Featherstone, directorgeneral of the Freight Transport Association, has been made a Commander of the British Empire.
Orders of the British Empire go to George Cheatley, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Group, and John Elliott, company trans-, port adviser to Metal Box.
Also included in the New Year's Honours List are Bill Edbrooke, Department of Transport (CBE); N. A. J. Harry, MarshaIls of Cambridge (OBE); William Smith, DTp (OBE); Allen Smith, County Surveyor for Kent County Council (OBE); D. Spice, Pandair Freight (OBE); Peter Dingle, DTp (Member of the British Empire); H. Tidd, Ray Bowles Transport (MBE); and R. Kaye, latterly West Riding Automobile Company (MBE).