This award was established in 2011 to recognise and honour individual outstanding service to transport in the UK, within and outwith the industry, over a period of two decades or more, usually – though not invariably – presented on retirement.

(Year * refers to year awarded and presented)

Year *	Recipient and Citation
2023	No award
2022	Shashi Verma – Instigated and delivered Transport for London’s Oyster card contactless payments system
2021	Jacqueline O’Donovan – Managing Director, O’Donovan Waste Disposal, logistics employee training and safety advocate, running family firm since age 17
2020	Clive Warcup – 1970 founder of eponymous transport company, transporting bulk foodstuffs and agricultural feeds
2019	Clive Birch MBE – 7th generation of a transport family, he conceived volume PSVs for MCW, managed transport media, and taught post-graduate vehicle design at the RCA. At one time, the UK’s youngest editor at 24, he later saved the Illustrated London News, served on Thomson boards, he then formed an independent publishing house, which changed the face of local history. He joined the Carmen in 1960, the Court in 1969, and among 750 books, published 60 transport titles, writing 34 of them himself, including a novel and Carr and Carman. Master, Deputy, and Assistant Master, he created the Carmen awards, Foundation Day, ball, Charity Lunch, military and Fueller links, journal, Cart Marking programme and freedom franchise. He developed oaths, hymn, handbook, song and pledge, served on most and chaired some committees. He founded Buckingham Heritage Trust and museum, developed London Transport Museum’s futures gallery, promoted Carmen’s Hall, and serves as a trustee.
2018	John Ratcliff CBE – for a lifetime of outstanding commitment to the industry and to charity, since joining and growing his father’s business, while assisting so many, particularly the less mobile, giving them new outlook and purpose. He has made his company a household name, setting the standard for vehicle tail-lifts, and for mobility in the home. As Patron of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, he has helped engineers of all industries achieve the best in performance and career. As Master Carman and then consort to his wife when Master, through Variety Club and Water Rats, he has touched many lives. John Ratcliff has been a master of movement and mobility and a servant of those in need.
2017	Ron Dennis CBE – for outstanding leadership in motor-racing, as owner and manager of highly successful motorsport teams; and founding and development of the leading UK supercar brand. He has owned and run teams since 1971, in 1980 reversing his Project 4 Team into McLaren Racing, which won seven F1 constructor’s titles and ten driver’s championships. He founded and developed McLaren Automotive in 1994 with the legendary 240mph McLaren FI, a major competitor in world-class supercars. An official British Business Ambassador for Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing, he is a main Trustee for Tommy’s, a miscarriage help charity.
2014	Richard Brown CBE – past Chief Executive of Eurostar, and Chairman until June 2013, previously Commercial Director and main Board Director of National Express Group plc, he spent 36 years in the transport industry, and was a Director of British Rail’s Intercity division before privatisation. He is a past President of Railteam and of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and was twice Chairman of the Association of Train Operating Companies. He is credited with resolving major challenges to rail franchising after the West Coast procurement debacle.
2012	Sir Moir Lockhead OBE – joined Grampian Regional Transport as General Manager in 1985, was among those who bought the organisation on deregulation in 1989, saw it listed in 1994 and built the successor First Group into an international transport operation, as Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, retiring in June 2011. Born in a mining village and leaving school at 15, he served as an apprentice mechanic, eventually joining Glasgow City Transport as Chief Engineer in 1979, and now holds an Honorary Chair in Transport at the University of Aberdeen – an entrepreneur who exemplifies lifetime achievement in the field of public transport.