NEWS IN BRIEF Fourpenny Minimum for Glasgow?: Glasgow Corporation is
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planning to apply to raise the minimum .3d. fare to 4d. Councillor Samuel Hughes, transport committee convener. estimates that such a move will balance the additional cost of £250,000 which the new award to 7,000 employees involves.
Pay Up—Fares Up: Pay increases of up to 6 per cent for 77,000 municipal bus workers agreed last week are likely to lead to higher provincial fares. Estimated costs per year to main towns and cities in the North are Hull, £40,000; Leeds, £95,000; Sheffield. £160,000; Rotherham, £28,000; Newcastle, £80,000; Ivliddicsbrough, £15,000; Darlington, £11,5011; Manchester, £235,000, Ribble's Big Losses: In the years from 1960-63, net losses on Ribble Motor Services Ltd, routes in the Lake District nearly doubled and now totalled £115,000 in a year, revealed the companyS's general manager, Mr. G. Brook, in a letter which has gone out to local authorities and M.P.s in the company's operation area appealing for support for bus fuel tax relief. He warns of still higher fares and increased traffic congestion resulting from more use of private transport if the Government does not do something to relieve the bus operators' burdens, and states: "In fact, nearly 40 per cent of our stage carriage mileage is now operated at a loss."
Seven for Stockton: A tender by Park Royal Vehicles Ltd. for the supply of seven bus bodies at £4,290 each, to be mounted on. Leyland Atlantean chassis, has been accepted by Stockton-on-Tees Corporation. They are to be delivered in August, 1965.
New Swindon Buses: Swindon Corporation transport committee has accepted an A.E.C. tender for five single-decker chassis at £12,755 total cost and a Willowbrook render for live bodies for them at £13,575.
South Wales Jubilee: The South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. was formed in February, 1914, and on May 2, 1914, the first bus service was introduced, linking Ynysforgan and Pontardawc. To commemorate the occasion, an attractive 32-page brochure has been produced, and copies were handed to all members of the staff attending a dinner in Swansea, recently. The dinner marked thesixteenth presentation of long-service awards to members of the staff, and was attended by nearly 250 long-service employees. The chairman of the company, Mr. R. W. Birch, presented one award for 50 years' service; 21 for 40 years' ; and certificates 6) a further 31 employees for 25 years' service and over.
No Unofficial Strike Action: Midland Red busmen from 20 garages in the Birmingham area have decided against further unofficial strike action until the employers' reply m the provincial busmen's pay and holiday claim is made known on February 25,