CREAMLINE COUPLE RETIRE
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of the public transport industry's
Cbest-known husband-and-wife teams, Charles and Margaret Wilkins, of Bordon in Hampshire, retired last month.
Entering the coach industry early in the last war, they built under the title of Creamline Motor Services (Bordon) Ltd. one of the largest privately owned businesses in the South of England.
They were successful at the British Coach Rally each year at Brighton where Mrs. Wilkins excelled herself as one of the few women drivers.
The business has not been disposed of as an entity: the modern premises at Bordon have been acquired by the Dorada Investment Group as a coach sales centre for its subsidiary company, E. J. Baker and Co. (Dorking) Ltd.; the coach licences— recently transferred to a Creamline associate, Parlane's (Aldershot) Ltd.— have been transferred in the name of that company to Castle Coaches (Horndean) Ltd.
The new proprietors have opened premises in Hogmoor Road, Bordon, for the operation of the services. Six coaches were taken over by the new owners.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins will spend their retirement in the Bordon area.
Rawtenstall Deficit Up: Rawtenstall Corporation Motors made a loss of £5,716 in the year ended March 31, 1967, compared with £905 in the previous year. Total income was E218,295, working expenses £211,313 and capital charges and taxes £12,698.