PROTECTING DRIVERS OF POOL PETROL VEHICLES
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DRIVERS of road vehicles employed by the Petroleum Board are apparently dissatisfied with the action of the Board in refusing to negotiate .a wages agreement. The Transport and General Workers Union and the Ministry of Labour have the matter ender consideration.
Apparently, when the Board started to function, the men were guaranteed six months' employment. That period expires next month. The drivers, it would seem, have no guarantee of minimum conditions of employment, and it is to secure their interests that the T.G.W.U. has the matter in hand.
Registration of Traffic Movement, Ltd.
()N January8 the registration of Traffic Movement, Ltd., took place. We have, of course, already made reference to the company and, in the terms of registration, the directors are to number not fewer than six or more than 25 and of these 13 are to be called elected directors and , the remainder ordinary directors.
A.R.O. is entitled to nominate six of the latter, these being the president, two vice-presidents, chairman, director and chairman of the Haulage Sectional Board. Members of the company holding A or B licences are entitled to nominate an elected director. The subscribers are:—Messrs. John W. Havers, George Smart, Roger W. Sewill, Reginald Hindley, John W. Beresford, John W. Jones and Peter Stevenson.
Bast Ham's A.R.P. Plans
THE emergency •committee of East Ham Corporation has considered various suggestions for reducing the expenditure incurred in repairs of vehicles used for civil defence purposes. The appointment of 21 instructordrivers for the ambulance service had been authorized to maintain a 'continuous 24 hours' service, and directions given for application to be made for approval of grant.
The borough engineer had been directed to arrange for the appointment of transport supervisors in respect of each rescue party, it being under: stood that the individual so appointed would be one of the skilled men whose appointment had been authorized by the Home Office.
The committee agreed that the wages of instructor-drivers and transport supervisors be at the rate of £3 15s. per week.
Big Drop in November Registrations URING November, 1939, the num ber of road motors registered for the first time in Great Britain was 10,070, compared with 33,833 in the same month of 1938. In a Ministry of Transport announcement it is shown that 3,279 goods vehicles were licensed, compared with 4,944 in November, 1938, whilst under the same heading agricultural vans and lorzles totalled 47, contrasted with 88. Amongst exempt classes, Government-owned vehicles numbered 398, compared with 1,613. The total for tractors was 43, contrasted with 23, whilst under the heading of agricultural engines (5s. class), 1,195 machines were licensed, as against 367 a year earlier.
Insurance-rates Arrangement Extended AST September, an announcement 1.-was made by the Minister of Transport to the effect that insurers nad Weed for three months to continue and extend, without any general increase in rates, existing policies for grouped goods vehicles, and it is now made known that insurers have agreed that the arrangement shall be extended until February 19. , B.R.F. Again Active
I N a "One Hears" paragraph we
referred last week to the re-issue by the British Road Federation of its Monthly Bulletin of Road Information. We would also point out that the address of the Federation has been changed to 50, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1 (telephone, Whitehall 792@). The hon. secretary is -Mr. F. G. Bristow, C.B.E., whilst the public relations officer is Mr. Gaston Vincent.
Anti-jitterbugs' Banquet and Ball
.THE Metropolitan Area of Associated 1 Road Operators has decided to hold its annual banquet and ball at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, W.1, on February 19. Tickets for this always-appreciated function, for which there is usually a huge demand, can be obtained from the secretary, Mr. S. H. Jardine, Romney House, Mar shamStreet, London, S.W.1. Any profits will go to the Comforts Fund of the Forces.
NEW A.R.P. LIGHTING REGULATIONS SHORTLY
THE Minister of Home Security -proposes shortly to make an amending Lighting Order, under which it will be compulsory as from January 22, 1940, to use the A.R.P. head-lamp mask described in the Air Raid Precautions Department pamphlet on War-time Lighting Restrictions for Road Vehicles, issued in October last, or a mask giving an equivalent performance. After that date it will be illegal to use any other type of mask.
Owners of motor vehicles are, therefore, advised to obtain a mask of the new type, and to see that it is properly fitted. In particular, steps must be taken to ensure that when the vehicle is standing on a level road no light from the masked head lamp can be seen at, or above, the horizontal. The mask may be fitted either to the off-side or the neanside head lamp.
At the same time, the Minister calls attention to the necessity of screening side lights correctly. Full details of the proper method are given in the Air Raid Precautions pamphlet..
It is also important that the rear lights should be properly screened in accordance with the regulations, and the Minister proposes to insert in the new Order an additional requirement that (except in the case of certain public service vehicles) the rear, lamp must be carried at a height not exceeding 3 ft. 6 ins, above ground level.
Doncaster Rates Meeting Postponed A FTER we closed for press last week, we learned of the postponement of the meeting of Doncaster and district haulage contractors, fixed for Sunday last, to consider rates stabilization matters. It is expected that the meeting, particularly concerned with rates for sand and gravel haulage, will be held at an early date.