Change to Board of Directors of Investment Adviso

Billam PLC
6 June 2000

                                  BILLAM PLC
                                       
                APPOINTMENT OF INVESTMENT ADVISERS TO THE BOARD
                                       

The  company  is  pleased to announce its first two appointments:  Dr  Herbert
Sonntag and Tim Hearley as Investment Advisors to the Board of Directors.

Tim  Hearley, aged 57 years, is an experienced chairman and director in listed
and  private business. Currently Chairman of Nolan Plc, a Director of Moorepay
Group  Plc (AIM Listed) until its sale in recent weeks for £40 million, and  a
Director  of  the  TUP  Group Ltd - all businesses  engaged  in  the  computer
software   and  IT  services  sector.  He  has  wide  commercial   experience,
encompassing  many  other  industries including  manufacturing,  where  he  is
Chairman of Integral Plastics Group Plc. He has a broad background within  the
automotive  components sector and was a past Director and  Chairman  of  Aston
Martin  Lagonda  Ltd  between 1981 and 1985. Prior to  this  time,  he  was  a
securities  analyst  with leading UK broking firms and  later  engaged  within
corporate  finance. Since 1993, through Vail Corporation  Ltd,  in  a  private
equity  capacity, he has supported and invested successfully in  a  number  of
businesses. Earlier this year he became a Director and significant investor in
Virgin Cars Ltd, and Chairman of Virgin Cars (UK) Ltd, which has launched an
e-commerce business, initially in the UK, to provide a full-service Internet
car-buying website.

Main Current UK Directorships
Rolfe & Nolan Plc
Virgin Cars Ltd
Integral Plastics Group Plc
Zoa Plc
Moorepay Group Plc
TUP Group Ltd
Epinet Communications Plc
Vail Corporation Ltd

Dr.  Herbert Sonntag (born 1946) studied economic engineering at the Technical
University  Berlin (1968-1973) and completed his doctoral thesis in  Transport
Operations Research in 1977.

Herbert  Sonntag was one of the founding partners of IVU GmbH Berlin  in  1976
and  held  the position of  Managing Director.  Since its transformation  into
IVU  Traffic  Technologies AG in 1999 he has been a Member of  the  Board  and
responsible  for  Business  Development  and  Investor  Relations.  IVU  is  a
significant European player in the field of software development for transport
logistics  and  personal mobility.  Since the beginning of the  eighties,  Dr.
Sonntag   has  been  involved  in dealing with the  problems  associated  with
commercial  traffic logistics. The commercial traffic model developed  by  IVU
has  been  based largely on his research results, which were traffic  concepts
and  despatching  software for freight traffic, both at  a  national  economic
level as well as for the practical business of companies.  His main focus  now
is  the  integration  of telematic components, Internet  applications  and  e-
business in freight traffic as well as the implementation and dissemination of
marketable products.

Dr  Sonntag  is a member of a variety of logistics work groups and  active  in
several  European  projects in telematics and logistic  applications.  He  has
dealt  with  the  problems  of  commercial traffic  in  numerous  publications
worldwide.