TRIBUNAL APPOINTED TO HEAR MEN'S CLAIMS
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FIE company operatives' claim for service conditions similar to those granted to municipal employees will be heard by a new Tribunal which has just been set up by the Minister of Labour. Mr. W. Gorman, K.C., is chairman, and Lieut.-Col. R. J. Cox and Mr. J. Young are the members.
The Tribunal will sit with six assessors—three from each side of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry.
DUNDEE AGREES ON GENERAL RISE IN FARES nUNDEE Corporation has decided to L.' apply to the Scottish Traffic Commissioners for permiSsion to raise bus fares by id. The general increase was agreed upon after two other schemes had been put forward by the transport manager, Mr. Robert Taylor. Permission to raise the tram fares similarly is also being sought.
-NOTTINGHAM'S £625,000 ORDER IT was revealed at a meeting of ii Nottingham Transport Committee that tenders had been accepted for a total of 125 new vehicles, comprising 65 six-wheeled trolleybuses, 58 doubledeck motorbuses and two single-deck motorbuses. The cost will be £625,000, and it is expected to have all vehicles in service by November, 1949.
400,000 SHIPS' WORKERS CARRIED BY BUS
PIURING the refitting of the "Queen ILI Elizabeth" and the "Queen Mary" for the North Atlantic passenger service, Hants and Sussex Motor Services, Ltd., Emsworth, carried over 400,000 employees of John Brown and Co., Ltd., from Chandler's Ford to the docks. The contract began in June, 1946, and has just been completed.
SHOULD CONDUCTORS BE DICTATORS?
QliESTIONS have been asked in the ‘‘House of Commons on the matter of whether a bus conductor should be the sole judge of whether his bus is full, or whether the public may take the matter into its own hands in case of error or misrepresentation of the facts.
The Minister of Transport said that he had no powers at present to safeguard the public. " I note the interest which the House takes in this matter," he said, "and it is my very strong desire to support it in every possible way" BIG " REPEATS " FOR N.C.B.
REPEAT orders for 122 double-deck full-height bus bodies have been received by Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Aberdeen Corporation has ordered 32, Northern General Transport, Ltd., 30; Blackburn Corporation, 30; City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., 20; Northampton Corporation, 10. Repeat orders for trolleybus bodies include 21 for Bradford Corporation and six for South Shields Corporation.
In addition, six low-height doubledeck bodies are being built for Huddersfield Corporation, and four trolleybus bodies for Cleethorpes Corporation.
PROSECUTED FOR SERVING PUBLIC
I N an unusual prosecution at Rudders
field last week a taxicab driver was found guilty of touting for custom and employment without permission at Huddersfield L.M.S. Railway Station.
The Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. W. R. Briggs), who dismissed the case under the Probation of Offenders Act. commented: " Instead of committing a crime, he seems to have been performing a public service. However, under the rules and by-laws of the L.M.S. Railway, he is not allowed to do this." ACCEPTED PARCEL ON MOVING BUS: £100 DAMAGES
AN unusual action for damages for personal injuries was dealt with by Judge Thesiger, at Bideford County Court, last week, • when Garfield Andrew, a Bideford butcher, sued the Southern National Omnibus Co., Ltd.
Judge Thesigcr held that a conductor who accepted a parcel from a pedestrian while his bus was in motion v. as guilty of negligence which caused the pedestrian to be injured when he str.i:k a kerbstone lamp-post. In award'ng £100 damages to Andrew, the judge agreed that, in the circumstances, most conductors would probably have done the same thing as the conductor of :bat particular bus.
On the application of the company's solicitor, stay of execution was granted for the question of an appeal to be considered.
COMPANY NOT TO BLAME
A SUMMONS against the MidLonl .1-1 General Omnibus Co., Ltd., for permitting a public-service vehicle to be used without having a conductor aboard was dismissed at Ripley, Derbyshire, last week.
It was stated that the case followed the recent conviction of one of the company's conductors for failing; to ensure the safety of passengers. A woman was seen to fall from a bus while the conductor was in a near-by café-.
Mr. K. Laing, traffic manager, said that the conductor was entitled to refreshment breaks between journeys.