0-licence guru and DTp chief knighted
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• Six Knights with transport industry connections head the Queen's Birthday honours list published last weekend.
They are Alan Bailey, who became Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport — top civil service post there — at the beginning of this year; John Collyear, chairman of the AE Group; Gerald Elliot, chairman of Christian Salvesen, the cold storage and transport market leader in the UK; Prof Christopher Foster, who chaired the 1978 committee of inquiry into the operator licensing system which paved the way for environmental criteria to be added to inquiries two years ago; Alan Greengross, a former Conservative transport spokesman at the Greater London Council; and Keith Stuart, chairman of Associated British Ports and the current president of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
CBEs named are National Bus Company executive vicechairman Irwin Dalton; Department of Transport chief inspector of accidents G C Wilkinson; and former Royal Corps of Transport Col W R Barker.
OBEs are DHL International (UK) chairman D R Allen; BL business strategy director H J Carver; DTp principal K Masterson; Faber Prest Holdings (owner of commercial vehicle dealerships) former chairman E C Prest.
MBEs are DTp supervising traffic examiner K J Burris; Transport Users Consultative Committee NW England member P M Entwistle; one time engineering consultant to the Automobile Association, M A I Jacobson; Felixstowe Dock and Rail Company chief safety officer F Keedle; and former West Midlands PTE divisional manager J Stokes.
British Empire Medals (BEM) go to Ulsterbus driver M Aiken; Freightliners chargehand welder J Bourke; London Buses driver W G Duffy; and Ipswich Transport chargehand fitter D G Stalley.