Chamber of Commerce appointment
Title
Chamber of Commerce appointment
Description
Douglas 'Hank' Iveson, the new secretary following his retirement from the Royal Air Force.
Creator
Date
1968-03-01
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
Language
Format
One newspaper cutting
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Contributor
Identifier
SIvesonD19171121v10042
Transcription
MORNING TELEGRAPH, SHEFFIELD, FRIDAY, MARCH 1 1968
[photograph]
The new secretary of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Douglas Iveson, flanked by personalities of the past.
Chamber name new secretary
BY LESLIE DANIELLS,
Business Editor
An RAF group captain has been appointed secretary of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.
Aged 50, and just retired from the RAF, Mr. Douglas Iveson, DSO, DFC and Bar, is a veteran of the three wartime bomber raids on Cologne, Essen and Hamburg and of the low-level night attacks on the battleship Tirpitz in Trondheim fjord.
He is also a member of the British Institute of Management.
Training
He takes up his job on April 1, and succeeds Mr. Richard Cordin who, on the same day, becomes Yorkshire Regional Officer of the Independent Television Authority.
Mr. Iveson is Hull-born, and was educated at Hull Technical College. He joined Earls Cement on the technical side, learned to fly and began his long RAF career.
His 20-year-old son, Robert, hopes to graduate from flying training school in May.
In 1958, Mr. Iveson became commander of an RAF V-bomber [underlined] squadron [/underlined] at Waddington, Lincolnshire, and acted as a British representative at meetings of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation.
[page break]
He was Squadron Commander at 25 yrs of age
C/O. was Station Commander at Waddington.
[page break]
MORNING TELEGRAPH, SHEFFIELD, FRIDAY, APRIL [missing text]
[photograph]
[missing text]iving at Rotherham Town Hall to hand in their nomination papers are (left to right): Cou[missing text] Mr. R. Johnson, Coun. E. Cooke, M r. J. Rawlingson and Mrs. S. Denn[missing text]
[unrelated articles]
[page break]
[blank page]
[photograph]
The new secretary of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Douglas Iveson, flanked by personalities of the past.
Chamber name new secretary
BY LESLIE DANIELLS,
Business Editor
An RAF group captain has been appointed secretary of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.
Aged 50, and just retired from the RAF, Mr. Douglas Iveson, DSO, DFC and Bar, is a veteran of the three wartime bomber raids on Cologne, Essen and Hamburg and of the low-level night attacks on the battleship Tirpitz in Trondheim fjord.
He is also a member of the British Institute of Management.
Training
He takes up his job on April 1, and succeeds Mr. Richard Cordin who, on the same day, becomes Yorkshire Regional Officer of the Independent Television Authority.
Mr. Iveson is Hull-born, and was educated at Hull Technical College. He joined Earls Cement on the technical side, learned to fly and began his long RAF career.
His 20-year-old son, Robert, hopes to graduate from flying training school in May.
In 1958, Mr. Iveson became commander of an RAF V-bomber [underlined] squadron [/underlined] at Waddington, Lincolnshire, and acted as a British representative at meetings of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation.
[page break]
He was Squadron Commander at 25 yrs of age
C/O. was Station Commander at Waddington.
[page break]
MORNING TELEGRAPH, SHEFFIELD, FRIDAY, APRIL [missing text]
[photograph]
[missing text]iving at Rotherham Town Hall to hand in their nomination papers are (left to right): Cou[missing text] Mr. R. Johnson, Coun. E. Cooke, M r. J. Rawlingson and Mrs. S. Denn[missing text]
[unrelated articles]
[page break]
[blank page]
Collection
Citation
Morning Telepgraph, “Chamber of Commerce appointment,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 18, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/44841.