OBITUARY
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WE regret to record the deaths of MR. 'VT S. H. JARDINE, MR. HARTLEY WILKINSON and MR. J. H. CAMERON, Mr. Jardine, who died oti May 27, became the first secretary of the Metro-. Politan.(later the Metropolitan and South Eastern) area of the RoadHaulage Association .when it was formed in 1945. He had previously been secretary_ of the Metropolitan area of Associated Road Operators, and had served the road haulage industry for 21 years, when he retired in 1957. He helped to form the finance company. which in 1946 became Road Transport Finance, Ltd., and was its secretary from inception .until his death.
Mr. Wilkinson, who was 66, was formerly managing director of Peter Wilkinson, Ltd., Sunderland, one of the largest haulage concerns in the northeast until it was taken over by British Road Services 10 years ago. He was at one time chairman of the Road-Rail Conference (Northern Area) and of the old area Road Haulage Wages Board. In 1950, he unsuccessfully contested Sunderland South Division as a Parliamentary candidate in the General Election. He was a former national vicechairman of the Road Haulage Association.
'Mr. Cameron, who died after a short illness, was general manager and a director of the York Pullman Bus Co., Ltd.
L.C.C. TO MAKE 200 BODIES?
THE supplies committee of London County Council have proposed that 200 plastics ambulance bodies be produced at the L.C.C. workshops in Wandsworth at the rate of one a week.
The staff there have become skilled in producing mouldings, and it is felt that if the building of the bodies were contracted out there would be an initial delay of six months while the company concerned made up about 50 new moulds and jigs costing some 0,000.
Their operatives would have to be instructed by L.C.C. staff and close inspection would be necessary at all stages.
• B.T.C. REPORT SOON
THE annual report of the British Transport Commission is expected to be published in a fortnight's time. It will show a loss of some L8 5m.
More drastic measures to eliminate unremunerative services are expected under a revision of the modernization programme now nearing completion.