Government Training Scheme Makes Headway
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UNDER the scheme for the training of motor mechanics, 'Which the Mheistry of Labour is conducting alongside that for the training of commercial-vehicle drivers, a number of municipal-transport undertakings in. Yorkshire is providing instructional facilities *--to augment those • at the Government training centres in Leeds and Sheffield.
The trainee-mechanics, it is emphasized, are intended for employment in only the servicing and repair of public-service and goods vehicles; the scheme is not planned to provide labour for the repair and maintenance of private cars. At the Leeds training centre, approximately 54) men are undergoing the .I6-weeks' course of instruction, which has been drawn up by the Institution of Automobile Engineers. About 25 men are being trained at the Sheffield centre, and some 20 others are, or soon will be, pupils at York-, shire municipal-transport depots, where the constant overhaul of Vehicles affords opportunities for training. It is anticipated that trainees from the GlOvernment training centres at Leeds and Sheffield will be available for appointments as mechanics by the beginning of September.
Municipal undertakings, or any other large transport concerns, which are able and willing to provide facilities for the training of mechanics under the scheme receive from the Government per week in respect of each trainee while ie is undergoing the course of instruction, and during that time the Ministry of Labour acts as the trainees' employer. • . A concern which trains a mechanic under the scheme does not thereby obtain any prior right to his services after training, as all the trainees are being passed forward into a general pool. The supply of mechanics from this pool will be rationed among concerns whose applications for their services are approved.
Undertakings desiring the services of mechanics who have been trained under the scheme should notify their potential requirements to the Ministry of Labour, through either an operators' association, of which they may he members, or direct to their local Employment Exchange. The saMe procedure should also be followed *by coecerns desiring the services of men and women who have completed. the Ministry's course of instruction as drivers of commercial vehicles.