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vehicle owners NATIONAL PACT FOR MUNICIPAL WORKERS
A PROVISIONAL agreement, the Pi negotiation of which has been reported from time to time in The Commercial Motor, has been reached between the Transport and General Workers Union and the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association, in respect of the working conditions of employees of municipal bus undertakings. The agreement sets out the broad principles, but variations to suit local needs will be permitted. A draft has been placed before the interested parties, and a national conference to consider the subject will be held in Manchester, on April 16.
M.P. CRITICIZES LONDON TRANSPORT.
QTRONG complaints by Sir Arnold
M.P., speaking at _a luncheon of the Industrial Co-partnership Association, have been added to the recent public protests against the reduction of services by London Transport. He said that, in Hertfordshire, the services were fewer and less efficient and were less suited to local needs. Residents were assured, he remarked, that the services were being reduced because they were unremunerafive, but the small operators had been able to make them pay and had given efficient service.
ADVICE ON TATTOO COACHING ARRANGEMENTS.
COACH operators who intend to run excursions to the Tattoo at Aldershot, from June 13-15, and 18-22, will be interested in a leaflet which has been prepared by the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London, S.W.I, showing routes, car parks and giving other information regarding traffic arrangements.
Every record is expected to be broken in connection with this year's
Tattoo, and the R.A.C. has again been entrusted with the entire vehicleparking arrangements. At last year's event, the Club dealt with 45,845 vehicles MERTHYR REFUSES TO PAY FINE.
TUE bus committee of Merthyr Tyd
fil Corporation has rejected a request of the Transport and General Workers Union for the payment of a fine imposed by the Abercynon stipendiary upon a driver employed by the corporation. As reported in last week's issue, the stipendiary declared that Merthyr Corporation, or Cardiff Corporation, which is jointly interested in the service, should pay the fine.
COLCHESTER'S DEFICIT.
rOLCITESTER Transport Committee will require £930, equivalent to a rate of id. in the R, to meet the deficit on the undertaking for the year ended March 31.
BIG NEW GARAGE PROJECT.
ANEW garage to house 150 buses is to be built by Birmingham Corporation, at Bordesley. A site of 10,600 sq. yds. has been acquired.
LAST INDEPENDENT GOES.
IT is understood that the Maidstone land District Motor Services, Ltd., has taken over the business of the Victor Motor Transport Co., Ltd., the last of the independent operators in the Tunbridge Wells district.
17 OILERS FOR NOTTINGHAM.
SSEVENTEEN 50-seater oil-engined are to be purchased by Nottingham Corporation to replace trams on the Mapperley route, which will be extended.
ANOTHER CROSVILLE DEAL.
SUBJECT to the consent of the North-Western Traffic Commissioners, Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., is to take over seven stage services, an express service and excursions and tours operated in North Wales by Mr. 'W. H. Williams (Mechell Maroon Services).
Cheltenham Corporation is -Id acquire a portion of the Royal Crescent Garden for the construction of a bus station.
The town planning committee of Chelmsford Corporation has approved a layout plan of the proposed new coach station for the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., in Duke Street.
COMPENSATION CLAIMS MUCH REDUCED
ON Tuesday, the London _Passenger Transport. Arbitration Tribunal annom-iced its awards on the claims of the Renown Traction Co., Ltd., and the Ryan Transport Co. for compensation for the transfer of their undertakings to London Transport.
The Renown concern claimed some £64,000 for the transfer of its business and nine buses (seven of which were modern). The Tribunal reduced the award to £29,772, including payments on account, with the addition of interest at the rate of 5 per cent, from the appointed date. No interest was allowed on sums paid on account.
The Ryan concern claimed over £24,000 in stock, and the award was for £8,204, interest being paid on the same basis as in the Renown case.‘ Mr. Joshua Scholefield, K.li, chairman, stated that the Tribunal.did not consider the undertakings of the Common Fund Group and the Metropolitan Railway to be similar to that of the Renown concern, although the lastnamed claimed that this was the case.
DUBLIN ARBITRATION COURT'S FIRST SITTING.
THE court of arbitration set up under the Irish Free State Road Transport Act, 1933, held its first sitting on Monday, under the direction of Mr. M. Binchy. The court is to assess the payments to be paid by the Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd., for the compulsory acquisition of independent bus undertakings. The sitting was held in private, and representatives of several companies, the services of which are now under the control' of the D.U.T., gave evidence.
NO TRAMS IN MANCHESTER IN SEVEN YEARS?
ik A 0 TO RB U SE S have, during the Inpast five years, replaced 35 per cent, of the original trams in Manchester, says Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, the city's transport manager, and he estimates that at such a rate the city will have no trams left in seven years. In every case so far, when tracks have required renewal, trams have been discarded and buses introduced. The next change-over proposed concerns Ashton Old Road, which is three or four miles long.
BUS DRIVERS WANT SPEEDOMETERS.
A CONFERENCE of representatives le.of employees of bus companies in South Wales decided, last Sunday, to urge the executive committee of the Transport and General Workers Union to use its influence to have it made compulsory, by Act of Parliament, for speedometers to be fitted to every motor vehicle. It was agreed to create a fund for the defence of drivers and conductors who are prosecuted under the Road Traffic Acts and Road and Rail Traffic Act.