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Bob Charlesworth, a war hero and trading standards stalwart, has passed away
Posted 15 December 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: CTSI pays tribute to Bob Charlesworth, whose remarkable career stretched from pre-war weights and measures work to distinguished wartime service and decades of commitment to the profession and Institute.
We are sad to announce the passing of Robert David Islwyn Charlesworth at the grand age of 97.
The present day Chartered Trading Standards Institute, of which Bob remained a member, grew out of the Incorporated Society of Weights and Measures Inspectors which Bob joined in 1936 after leaving school at 14. His first job was a temporary fuel clerk with Crewe Corporation, before being select...
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