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| Harry Clarke, Commercial Director for RingGo, the UK's leading cashless parking service, was this week (1 December) presented with the Ernest Davies Award for Advancing Parking Knowledge. The prestigious award is presented annually at the British Parking Association's Members' Dinner, held in the Drapers Hall - one of the most historic livery company halls in the City of London. Ernest Davies, himself a journalist, was president of the BPA in 1977 and set up the award to encourage parking professionals to write about the industry. Clarke's winning paper 'Deep water: blowout preventers - lessons to learn', recounts a variety of outsourcing issues deemed responsible for the BP 'Deep Water' catastrophe. The article relates these to situations occurring within the parking industry today - and to pay by phone parking in particular. According to the judges, Clarke's entry "ably demonstrated that it was a worthy and distinguished addition to the pantheon of past winners". In receiving the award from Graham Brown, President of the British Parking Association, Clarke spoke with passion about his 10 years in the parking industry, paying tribute to those within it. "It is indeed a very great honour to be chosen to win this award" he said "and especially to receive it in front of so many of you - the people with whom I have spent a hugely enjoyable decade. If I am enthusiastic about this industry and feel inspired to write and contribute to its future, it is quite simply, because of you and your colleagues." |
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