Phillips honoured
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• Freight Transport Association president Stuart Phillips and London Buses chairman and managing director John Telford Beasley top the New Year's honours list announced this week, with an OBE and a CBE respectively.
Phillips, who has taken part in FTA affairs for more than 20 years, is distribution director with Rank Hovis based at Windsor in Berkshire.
Beasley, who was rewarded for his services to the bus industry, has been in charge of London Buses since 1984.
Two truck drivers were also honoured this year, both for doing their jobs well. Bob 'Pagden is an HGV class one driver with the Southern Water Authority's Hampshire division and his reward is a British Empire Medal (BEM) for 40 years service to the industry. Les Stagg, formerly a tanker driver with Petrofina (UK) has also won a BEM for "outstanding service to his colleagues, company, union and industry". He joined the firm's Fulham depot as a tanker driver in 1960 and remained there until it closed last year.
Other awards in the industry went to: Ken Adams of London Buses — BEM; Graham Storer of Leicester City Bus — BEM; Ian Douglas Neil son of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory — OBE; Ronald Soanes of TRRL — MBE; George Frederick Jones of DVLC — BEM; John Maltby of Burmah Oil
— CBE; John Blyth Hibbs of Birmingham Polytechnic — CBE; Stephen Mouat of Uniroyal Englebert Tyres — CBE; Peter Watson of GICN — CBE; Bernard McCusker of Port of Liverpool Authority — MBE; Robert Wilson of Ulsterbus — MBE; R Knox of the BBC garage, Kendal Avenue — BEM; W J G Lynamm of Epsom and Ewell District Council highways department — BEM; W A Marchant of Brighton Borough Transport — BEM; A F Rutter of Ipswich Port Authority — BEM. Finally, Navy diver Aemon Fullen won a Queen's Gallantry Medal for diving for five hours to free lorry drivers trapped in an air pocket in the capsized Herald of Free EnterPrise ferry.