Birthday Honours for Road Transport Men
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-THE Queen's Birthday Honours list 1 includes .the following awards:— K.Ba William Sinclair. director, Dunlop Rubber Co. (Scotland), Ltd.; E. W.' Thompson, chairman, John Thompson, Ltd.
C.B.: D. O'Neill, Linder-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
C.R.E.t it. F. Ronallack, deputy chairman and joint managi-Ig director. Bonallaek and Sons. Ltd.; E. W Godfrey, assistant secretary. Ministry of Transport; E. Player, managing director, Birmid Industries, Ltd.; C. M. Vignoles, managing director. Shell-Mex and BP., Ltd.; J. Wright director, Duritop Rubber Co., Ltd. W. H Pocock, member, South-Eastern Traffic Commissioners; M. I. Romayne, chief engineer, Ford Motor Co.' Ltd.; S. Wrigglesworth, director and general manager. Oldham and Sons, ltd. M.B.E.t A. W. Attline, Metropolitan Licensing Authority's office; A. A. Brake, assistant secretary. Aldershot and District Traction Co.. Ltd.; G. M. Davies and A. J. Porter, Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd.; A. Ferguson, assistant engineer, Belfa41 Transport Denanment; T. H. Messenger, Research Asiociation of British Rubber Manufacturers: 1. B. Sankey, Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment; R. G. Winton. director and technical manager, Lansing Flagnall Ltd.
B.E.M. : F. W Watson, Simmonds Aerts cessories, Ltd.
STRIKERS LOSE REST-DAY PAY: STRIKE AGAIN
MIDDLESBROUGH was again without corporation bus services last Friday. Crews staged another strike at the end of the early-evening rush hour on Thursday when their pay slips showed that, because of the token stoppage the previous Friday, they had not been paid overtime for work on their rest days that week.
Aid. W. Flynn, chairman of the transport committee, said trade-union representatives had agreed that the men did not qualify for rest-day payment, as they had not conformed to the normal working week.
Mr. S. Mason, branch secretary of the onion, said that the employees were not fully behind the strike.
1,137,940 LORRIES, 92,940 HACKNEYS
ON November 30 last there were 1,137,900 goods vehicles compared with 1,082,200 a year earlier. The number of hackneys dropped from 96,400 to 92,900. Hackneys, other than trams, with more than eight seats declined from 71,300 to 71,100.
There was an increase in the tractor population from 375,400 to 385,200.
Among goods vehicles, electrics advanced from 20,600 to 21,500, and local authorities' watering vehicles from 2,600 to 2,800. The numbers of farmers' and showmen's vehicles remained static at 42,000 and 1,700, respectively. " Other" goods vehicles rose from 1,015,100 to 1,069,900.
These figures are contained in "Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, Great Britain, Return No. 176." (Stationery Office, 3s.).
MINISTER'S TOUR
EARLY next month the Minister of .1-1 Transport will tour many hundreds of miles to visit major works on trunk roads. He is stated to be anxious to speed up improvements and reconstruction in the north and north-west.