Career
Her stepmother was Jean Ross, the inspiration for Christopher Isherwood"s character Sally Bowles. In 1987 Claudia Flanders formed Tripscope, an organisation to help disabled people with transport issues. She created the post of adviser on disability to the National Business Company (United Kingdom) in the 1970s and served for many years on the national Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People and the Department of Transport Advisory Committee on Disability in the United Kingdom. Claudia Flanders was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1981 for her services to disabled people.
She died in London on 25 June 1998.
Her daughters are Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders. In 1999 a special award for improved accessibility for United Kingdom buses operators was started in her memory under the United Kingdom Business Awards.
