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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

31st January 1941
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LONDON TRANSPORT NEEDS DRIVERS

ONDON Transport needs drivers for .1..aits Country buses ,and Green Line. coaches. Applications should be made to any of the 29 country garages of the organization and applicants should live. near the garage. Drivers must be between 30 and 45 years of age, must have had experience -of driving and have good references, and be 5 ft. g ins. to 5' ft. 11 ins, tall in their shoes. The wage is £3 15s. 6d. a week, rising to £3 19s. 6d., including war wage. Uniforms are provided and two weeks' holiday with pay are given after 12

months' service. Drivers are needed especially at Staines, Guildford, Windsor, Leathethead, Hertford and R.eigate.

ANOTHER WAGE DEMAND FROM BUSMEN

APPLICATION for a further increase in wages is being made on behalf

of bus workers. Negotiations have been opened by the passenger group of the Transport and General Workers Union, in co-operation with the National Union of General and Municipal Workers 'and the ,National Union of Railwaymen. Since the war' starteil, municipal and bus companies' operatives 'have received advances of 4s. and 3s., the most recent increase being in July last year.

R.T.C.'S. WARNING TO

NOTTINGHAM LiXPRESSING his disappointment at the decision not to fun trolleybuses during an "alert," Court, B. D. Edwards said, that a recent stoppage had cost Nottingham Transport DepartmenfE400—£200 in extra -wages

and £200 in loss of revenue. He. added that a scheme for running a skeleton service of buses on the trolleybus routes was being considered. Emphasizing that it was the Govern merit's wish that transport services should be kept running during "alerts," Conn. Edwards said: " It is the transport committee's opinion that lar,ge groups of workers in the centre of the city constitute a far greater danger than trolleybuses running."

Mr. J. H. Stirk, Regional Transport Commissioner for the North Midlands, subsequently said that " If steps be not taken within a reasonable time, I shall be compelled to licence nonmunicipal operators to run on Nottingham trolleybus routes at all times,' in order to make their staffs familiar with the stages and fares."' . GLASGOW TRANSPORT WORKERS THINK TWICE

GLASGOW members of the Transport, and General Worlvers Union have revoked their ballot decision not to run during air-raid " alerts," and have agreed to operate buses and trams as may be required by the transport department. The qualification suggested by them that they should not he required to do so after 8 p.m. has now been withdrawn.

MUNITION WORKERS NEED, BUTTER TRANSPORT THE Clyde Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and the employers have requested. the .Ministry of Transport and the officials of local authorities to deal with trans portgrievances ahd problems. It is alleged that many niunition• workers are being kept Waiting an hour or more after finishing 10 or 12 hours' work, becauscof lack of transport.

/ The Glasgow municipal bus and tram services to and from industrial areas have been improved, but it is stated that time is being lost in the morning and evening because of the shortage of vehicles.. The , corporation transport department states that it can run more buses if the Government will permit a bigger fuel ration. • BETTER RATES FOR REQUISITIONED COACHES

WE learn that the North-western Area of A.R.O. is in negotiation 'with the military authorities in an endeavour to secure increased payment to operators for requisitioned motor coaches. The rates offered, it is stated, are inadequate and bear no rela

tion to the cost of replacement. For example, the military authorities offer £350 for a late 1936 Bedford coach, which cost £824; £475 for a 1938 Bedford coach,. which cost £746: and £1,050 for a 1938 Leyland coach, which cost £1,650.

REWARD FOR AIR•RAID HEROISM AT BUS GARAGE F" prompt and heroic action duriig the recent Manchester " blitz," Mr. J. F. Thoinas, attendant at. -a Manchester Corporation garage has been presented with a walnut clock and War.Savings Certificates to the value of £20.

Au incendiary bomb penetrated the roof of one of the garages' owned by the undertaking and rolled beneath a double-deck bus. Despite the fact that the bomb had ignited petrol dripping from the tank, Mr. Thomas got into the driver's cab and' drove the bus into the street, As Mr. Thomas left the vehicle it was a mass of flames and was, subsequently, destroyed, but his prompt action prevented other valuable rolling stock and property from becoming involved.

CO.OPERATIVE SOCIETY'S COACH RECEIPTS UP

THE turnover dl the Plymouth Cooperative Society's traffic department during the quarter ended 15ecembet last totalled £2,235, an increase of £686, Or 44.2 per cent. The, turnover of ,the motor-coach department was £1,5843, an increase of £507, or 46.9 per cent.


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