Major-General Frederick Joseph Plaskett CB MBE (23 October 1926 – 1 September 2018) was a British

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who was later chief executive of the British Road Haulage Association until 1988 and colonel commandant of the

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from 1981 to 1991.Major-General Freddie Plaskett obituary.
''The Times'', 22 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

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