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17th December 1948
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OUTPUT REACHES 4,000 A WEEK

NEARLY 4,000 commercial vehicles a week were produced in October, or about 400 a week more than in September. Output for October (a four-week period) totalled 15,950 vehicles, compared with 17,758 in the five-week period of September. Excluding five Service vehicles, 8,207 were for home service and 7,738 for export.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders states that October's output comprised 6,102 vehicles under 15 cwt. carrying capacity; 8,001 between 15 cwt. and 6 tons; 516 over 6 tons; 997 motorbuses and trolleybuses, and 334 battery-electrics.

Production in the first 10 months of the year rose to 143,907 units (including 19 Service vehicles), of which 74,186 were for the home market and 69,702 for export. Individual classes were as follow:—Under 15 cwt., 50,765; 15 cwt.-6 tons, 74,115; over 6 tons, 4,650; motorbuses and trolleybuses, 11,022, and battery-electrics, 3,355. Progress in the manufacture of electric vehicles is encouraging.

NOT LENDING BUSES

WHEN 67 double-deck and 13 singleIV deck buses which .had been on order for some time were received, they would not, "like the vehicles made for certain provincial undertakings, be diverted from the provinces for use in London," said Mr. J. S. Wills, Minst.T., chairman of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., at the company's annual general meeting yesterday.

Referring to joint working with the railways, Mr. Wills said that there was a practical limit beyond which it was impossible to effect further co-ordination without jeopardising the interests of the vast majority of passengers who were not interested in train connections.

HIGHER SATURDAY PAY?

ikIEGOTIATIONS have been proceed/ ling between the Transport and General Workers' Union and municipal and company bus operators and the London Transport Executive for an overtime rate of time-and-a-half on Saturday afternoons after 1 p.m. The result of these talks is being submitted to T.G.W.U. conferences of members, and an announcement is expected in the near future.

CO-ORDINATION A LONG JOB

SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Industrial Transport Association's Leeds branch, Mr. D. T. Jones, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, emphasized that the work of co-ordinating road and rail passenger services would take a long time, because the interests in each district had to be consulted.

Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the Association, referred to the curious situation existing at present in the transport industry. He said that although industry in general seemed to be working at peak pressure, -the rail a28

ways were not carrying the volume of traffic that they should be handling, and many road haulage vehicles were standing idle. He understood that this condition applied also to some of the vehicles of the Road Transport Executive._ Mr. Jordan thought that a good deal of "combing out" was required both

• on the railways and in road transport.

Although there was severe congestion at the Liverpool and London docks, caused in the latter case by the inadequacy of the roads leading to them, Mr. Jordan, on a recent visit to South Wales, saw large, excellent transit sheds lying empty, he said

JOINT WORKING POWER SOUGHT

BRADFORD Corporation's projected Parliamentary Bill includes two provisions for joint working with other parties in matters of transport. One concerns "agreements by the corporation with other persons carrying on the business of conveying, collecting and delivering parcels, for the joint working of the corporation's undertaking and the business of such other person."

The other empowers "agreements with other trolley-vehicle operators for joint working of trolley vehicles or trolley-vehicle services."

AREAS TO BE REGRADED?

A REA wages boards are to consider PA further the question of regrading certain areas for the purposes of road haulage wages. Their reports will be submitted to the Road Haulage Central Wages Board. The Transport and General Workers' Union is pursuing the matter "with the utmost vigour." WARNING ON AREA SCHEME IN a letter to the members of every i county borough council in the northeast, Major G. W. Hayter, general manager of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., urges them to "act before it is too late" over the proposed nationalization of road passenger transport services in the area. Nine county borough councils and four county councils will send representatives to a meeting in Newcastle on December 21, convened by the British Transport Commission through the Road Transport Executive, to make preliminary investigations into a scheme for co-ordination of road passenger transport services.

"You are urged to consider the grave implications of dislocating the whole system of road passenger services in this area and to act before it is too late," says Major Hayter.

STAND FOR. INDEPENDENCE

WEST HARTLEPOOL has agreed to W take part in the meeting to be held at Newcastle on December 21 as a preliminary to the preparation of an area scheme in the North-East, but has decided to "make it clear" that it intends to retain the independence of its transport undertaking, which includes trolleybuses and motorbuses.

TRANSPORT SERVICES FUTURE WHEN full compensation has been W received, the liquidation of Transport Services, Ltd., will he proposed. The British Transport Commission has made an initial cash payment of £2,000,000. Last year the company made a net profit of £314,640.

Production of a bigger Ferguson tractor for world markets •is planned. It will cost about 1400.


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