Independents for transport review
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THREE independent members are to join
Ministry of Transport officials and London Transport Board members and officers in the review of London Transport announced in Mrs. Barbara Castle's recent White Paper. They are Mr. J. W. Jones, a London Transport bus driver, Mr. Peter Parker, chairman of Bookers Engineering and Industrial Holdings, and Mr. L. V. D. Tindale, general manager of the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation.
The purpose of the joint Ministry-Board review is to examine the Board's financial needs and commercial policies and the main operating and management problems arising from them. Chairman of the directing group is Mr. Stephen Swingler, MP, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
Mr. Jones is employed at LTB's Dalston garage and has been driving buses since 1939. He is chairman of the central bus committee of the TGWU; chairman of the union's LTB negotiating committee; vice-chairman of the general executive council; and a member of the finance and general purposes committee of the union.
Mr. Parker is also chairman of Sigmund
Pulsometer Pumps Ltd., International Boilers ant Radiators Ltd., and of Fletcher and Stewart Ltd He is also chairman of the British Pump Mann facturers Association; a member of the Britist Institute of Management Council; and chairmai of that body's international committee; a membe of the Mechanical Engineering "Neddy"; and 2 member of the Court of London University.
Mr. Tindale is a chartered accountant, an also chairman of the Nile Steamship Co. Ltd. Falkland Shipowners Ltd., ETR Tankers Ltd., an Radcliffe Tankers Ltd.
£87 for broken thumb
A& FORMER Derby Corporation bus conductor whose left thumb was broken after an argument with a passenger, has been awarded £8'; by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board He is Mr. E. J. Jenkins, aged 19, of Alvaston Derby, who gained the award as a result cr representations by the Transport and Genera Workers Union.
His attacker was fined in court for assauli and causing grievous bodily harm.