5s. Increase for Haulage Workers
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A S from next Friday (August 15),
holders of A and B licences will be obliged to pay adult workers another 5s. a week and grant proportionate increases to juniors. This provision is wade in R.H.(42), which is now obtainable from the Stationery Office at 4d. and sets out the new scales of pay.
In London, wages of adult workers will range from £6 3s. a week to £7 2s. a week according to the size of vehicle. In Grade 1 areas, the corresponding figure will be £5 18s. and £6 17s. and in Grade 2 areas, £5 14s. and £6 13s. Wages of drivers handling special types will rise to a maximum of £9 6s. (London) and £9 2s. (Grade 1 and 2).
STANDARD TO FORM NEW COMPANY
"proposed to incorporate a corn
pany in Australia to be called Standard Motor Products, Ltd., to amalgamate the interests of Standard Cars, Ltd., and the Standard Motor Co. (Australia), Ltd. Shareholders in Standard Cars. Ltd. will be asked to approve the arrangement.
The new company, which will have a nominal capital of IA.5m„ will undertake the assembly and progressive manufacture in Australia of Standard and Triumph _cars and commercial vehicles under a 25-year agreement with the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., England. Sir John Black, deputy chairMan and managing director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., will be president of Standard Motor Products, Ltd.
It has been agreed that the new concern will undertake the progressive manufacture in Australia of Ferguson tractors for Harry Ferguson, Ltd., England, and its associated companies.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS August /2-September 6.-Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto. September 17-19.-Municipa! Passenger Transport
Association Annual Conference, Llandudno. September 26-October 4.-Cormncrciak Motor
Show, Earls Goon, London. September 29.-Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association Annual Dinner, Grosvenor House, London, W.I.
October 2-12.-Paris Show.
October 7-9.-National Safety Congress, Central Hall, Westminster, S.W.1.
October 5-I1.-Scottish Road Passenger Trans port Association Conference. Pitlochry. October 14-17.-Road Haulage Association
Conference, Blackpool.
-October 15.-National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers' Autumnal Conference, Park Lane Hotel, London. W.I. October 22-November 1.-Motor Show, Earls
Court, London. • November 15-22.-Cycle and Motor Cycle Show, Earls Court, London. December 5.-Institute of Road Transport Engineers' Annual Dinner, Connaught Rooms, London, W.C.2. December 13-12.-Smithfleld Show, Earls Court, ' London, March 5-15.-Internation5l Motor Show, Geneva. April 21-23.-Public Trangport Association Annual Conference, Folkestone. lone 7-12.--intanational Union of Public Transport Congress. Madrid.
"CONTACT B.R.S. FOR LOCAL WORK" 'THE Northern Licensing Authority, I at a recent sitting, urged a Gateshead concern, Sigmund Pumps, Ltd., to contact British Road Services when it wished local haulage to be carried out. The company was supporting an application by Mr. R. Stork, Gateshead, to extend his operational radius from 10 to 30 miles.
It was stated that Mr. Stone was granted a B licence four years ago, but that he could not find enough work to make a living within the 10-mile radius granted him. The application was refused.
HIGHER HAULAGE RATES
AN application by the Road Haulage Association to increase rates by 7d. an hour, to bring them to 9s. 10d., has been granted by the roads and bridges committee of Northumberland County Council.