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Paul Thomas
Martin Broom, chairman of Broom Boats, at the London Boat Show in 2010
Paul Thomas remembers brilliant Brooms, builders of special yachts and motor boats and his friendship with founder Martin Broom MBE
Boats have been much of my life… the apples of my eye. Here in Norfolk, over four decades I owned a wonderful sailing yacht, then also three motor boats we took abroad as well as around the UK – all created by members of the Broom family, Britain’s oldest boat-builder, 112 years of it.
I started in boats 70 years ago - at the age of 11 on the Norfolk Broads, in a holiday hire boat.
A shake-up at the top of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE), an incoming Transport for the North (TfN) boss and a new role for an ex-Crossrail chief are among April s high-profile appointments.
A round-up of the biggest moves and appointments during April is below.
To feature on next month’s appointments roundup, please email catherine.kennedy@emap.com
Hannah Vickers to leave ACE for role with Mace
Vickers joined the ACE in September 2018 from the Institution of Civil Engineers. Prior to this she worked for Infrastructure UK, part of HM Treasury and the Environment Agency.
TfN appoints new chief
Crossrail has made enough progress to no longer be considered a construction site but the £19bn project is still yet to start its crucial train-testing phase,
Construction News can reveal.
As reported earlier this month, Crossrail leaders had hoped trial runs of trains through central London could begin by the end of the first quarter of 2021, or just after, but failed to realise that ambition. The phase, called trial running, marks six-to-nine months before the whole project should be complete.
Rail staff had been geared up to start trials in late March and again this week, but the trial running has not yet begun as testing work has not been completed.