Strike Towns Back to Normal ?
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mORMAL duty pending negotiations for improved working conditions was resumed on Monday by the 750 busmen employed by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., and a subsidiary, Chatham and District Traction Co., who struck work 10 days earlier in protest against the employment of inspectors as temporary conductors,
Buses ran normally in West Bromwich on Saturday after employees of the transport department decided on Friday to accept a report on negotiations which had taken place the day before between union officials and the chairrnan of the transport committee.
Fears of the strike being resumed were, however, increasing on Wednesday, as several employees again refused on Monday to work with the Indian trainee whose employment began the strike.
• RUTLAND WORKS NEARLY READY
THE new factory at New Addington,
Surrey, of Motor Traction, Ltd., Teevan Road, Croydon, is nearing completion and should be ready for production of the Rutland range of vehicles within the next two months.
Full service facilities are, however, available at the factory for all models. A.E.C. AV410 and AV470 engines are now available in Rutland chassis as alternatives to Gardner and Perkins units, which are fitted as standard, according to chassis type.
MORE SNOW-CLEARING PLANT
THE Government are increasing their equipment for clearing snowbound roads, Lord Selkirk, Paymaster-General, told the House of Lords last week. Eight heavy snowploughs and about 100 gritters are to be purchased.
According to The Times on Tuesday, county road surveyors in Scotland do not agree that a repetition of this winter's conditions can be avoided by providing bigger and better snowploughs, or establishing a more efficient organization. The problem, they say, cannot be solved until the narrow carriageways, steep gradients and sharp corners of the Highland roads have been eliminated.
CAR HIRERS PROTEST
BECAU SE certain dealers in London are alleged to be getting quick delivery of new cars to sell or hire to overseas visitors, whilst established carhire operators have to wait the usual delivery period, the National Taxi-Car Association have protested to the British Travel and Holidays Association and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Grave concern is expressed over the "growing incursion of manufacturers and their distributive organizations into competition with established car-hire operators."