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Still on full throttle at 82

5th June 1982, Page 16
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C. S. DUNBAR (whose familiar style of address has been changed to Charles Dunbar for his book reviewed on page 56) is a remarkable man. He has been working for 63 years and shows no sign of giving up. At 82 his mind is as sharp, his memory as keen and his handwriting as firm and characteristic as when I first knew him 35 years ago.

He worked as a journalist on a London weekly from 1919-21 and for the next nine years was circulation and transport manager of evening newspapers in Southampton, Bournemouth, Bolton and Birmingham. He then deserted publishing for the Midland Red bus company, where he was concerned with parcels transport, and in 1933 started the famous Red Arrow Deliveries Ltd.

He was a highly enlightened employer and as long ago as 1935 his drivers enjoyed a fiveday week (which as a journalist I certainly did not) and full pay for an unlimited period of sickness.

Apart from three years with the Colonial Development Corporation from 1950-52, he has worked as a transport consultant and journalist sinceā€¢ 1947. His many articles, mostly on passenger transport, published in Commercial Motor in the late forties and the fifties were models of diligent research and meticulous writing.


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