TIM and ITIC 1984-1993
Early in 1984, Bill Birch Reynardson asked Herry to leave P&I and help start a new Miller club for shipagents and shipbrokers, known as TIM (Transport Intermediaries Mutual). Herry was reluctant to do so, knowing very little of that world and enjoying being the manager of Syndicate 1 with its collection of Japanese, Indian and blue-chip Greek Members. However Bill persisted and Herry left International House in September to move across the road to Creechurch House where the new office was being set up. Prior to his move, he had had a day with Francis Frost, the creator of the concept of TIM, at his house in Suffolk, and been convinced that it could work, and be amusing! He was joined his partner Charles Goldie, who was to be the eminence grise on the project, Malcolm Bird and Geoffery Roome, both of whom had been seconded to it and been working on it for some time. Herry's long-time secretary Jo Johns also came with him. David Martin-Clark gave a great deal of moral and p...