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Railways Gain £25.7m.: B.R.S.

9th January 1953, Page 110
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Drops £1.3m. in 1952

A LTHOUGH the revenue of British Railways was £25.7m. higher in 1-11952 than in 1951, British Road Services' receipts fell by £1.3m. Railway goods revenue rose by £22.8m.

Road and rail shared an increase in passenger revenue. The provincial and Scottish bus interests of the British Transport Commission earned another £4.1m. and London Transport an additional £7m. Railway passenger receipts advanced by £2.8m., bringing the total increase for the railways to £25.7m.

Figures just issued by the B.T.C. show the following results for 1952, with revenue for 1951 in parenthesis: Railways, £392.3m. (366.5m.); B.R.S., £76.2m. (£77.5m.); provincial and Scottish bus companies, £47.4m. (£43.3m.); London Transport, £66.3m. (E59.3m.); inland waterways, £2.2m. (£1.9m.). Receipts from London's buses and coaches advanced from £33.6m. in 1951 to £39m. last year, whilst revenue from the trams and trollcybuses fell from £9.6m. to £9.4m.

Traffic statistics so far available cover only the first 48 weeks of last year. They show that the tonnage of traffic carried by B.R.S. fell by 4.7m. from 43.5m. in the first 48 weeks of 1951 to 38.8m. last year. Mileage has dropped by 53.5m. from 711.2m. to 657.7m.

The ex-Tilling companies carried more passengers as well as increasing their revenue. The number rose by 18.4m. from 1,434.9m. in the first 48 weeks of 1951 to I,453.3m. in the comparable period of 1952.

A similar story comes from the Scottish Group, which carried 711.8m. passengers in the 48-week period of 1951 and 729.Inn. last year, an increase of 17.3m.

Both groups have increased their vehicle mileage by 7.6m. The figures for the ex-Tilling companies rose from 342.2m. to 349.8m., and those of the Scottish undertakings from I65.2m to 172.8m.

HECTIC COMPETITION TO COME

" HECTIC competition" when the

25-mile limit was raised was forecast by Mr. R. B. Brittain, chairman of the Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, when he spoke at the annual meeting of the Yarmouth Subarea, last week.

"Our period of competition will really start when the Road Haulage Executive vehicles become available and that, we think, may be about next

September. If we don't buy any of these vehicles ourselves, it means that the purchasers will' get more. than a year's start of us," he stated.

Mr. Brittajn commented that Mr. A. Lennox-Boyd was the most approachable Minister of Transport that there had ever been, and he tried to understand hauliers' problems.

LEYLAND OUTPUT FOR 1952

nESPITE shortages of materials, par

ticularly of steel in the early part of the year, Leyland Motors. Ltd., produced almost as many vehicles in 1952 as in 1951. Exports, however, were higher last year than in 1951.

A24 AUSTRALIAN ROAD FEDERATION

THE Australian Road Federation, 443, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Cl, has recently been incorporated. The chairman is Sir Herbert Olney and the secretary is Mr. D. B. Leahey, B.Com., A.C.I.S A 10-point working plan has been formulated.

The A.R.F. will become a member of the International Road Federation and will be served by the London office. Lieut.-Col. K. E. Boome, assistant executive of the London office, will visit the new Federation next month.

PARKING PLACES FOR LORRIES AETROPOLITAN borough councils I.Y1 have been asked for their views on the Minister of Transport's suggestion that local authorities should provide parking facilities for long-distance lorries. The Commissioner of Police recently made a complaint to the Minister about the numbers of vehicles left overnight on roads in the London area.

HIGHER PAY FOR DRIVERS?

THE Transport and General Workers' Union is seeking a meeting of the Road Haulage Wages Council With a view to reaching a decision on raising a number of towns from Grade 2 to Grade I. Union and employers' representatives have been examining the question in the various regions and some have recommended up-grading, whereas others have made little progress.

MANAGERSHIP ABROAD

AGENERAL manager is required for an important passenger transport undertaking in a Commonwealth country. For this Government position, applicants should have had wide managerial experience with a similar fleet, and the age limit is 45. Applications should be submitted to Guy Motors, Ltd., Fallings Park, Wolverhampton. B.R.S. Men to Strike ?

.14,RESOLUTION endorsing an earlier decision to call a national strike of workers employed by the Road Haulage Executive, was passed last week-end by an unofficial meeting of employees of the R.H.E. The previous decision concerned a strike from Sunday, January 18, and this action was decided on in protest against the proposed denationalization of the R.H.E.

There were nine delegates at the meeting who disagreed with this action. A Manchester delegate suggested that a two-day token strike should lake place. Another, representing drivers in the north-east, said that the men were against such action.

Nearly 400 men attending a meeting called by the Transport and General Workers' Union at Bristol decided not to support the call for a strike. Almost unanimously the meeting decided to oppose the Government's 'proposals by constitutional measures.

On Monday, strike notices were handed in at -depots of the Huddersfield group, in respect of a week's strike starting next Sunday night. About 300 drivers and mates are iniolved.

PROFIT-SHARING FOR HAULAGE WORKERS

ALL the employees of G. Hunter and Sons (Transport), Ltd., Ulliott and Needham, Ltd., and G. Hunter and Son's (Coal), Ltd., were present at a dinner in Hull, last week, when Mr. Harold Hunter, a director of the cornrianies, described their profit-sharing

scheme. • A fixed proportion of the net annual profit was allocated to the scheme, he said, and the entire staff would participate. Each employee's share was rated upon his status within the organization, length of service and efficiency. Mr. Hunter told the staff how they could increase the efficiency of the organization to provide larger sums for distribution among them.

Mr. Hunter is chairman of the Yorkshire (Hull) Area of the Road Haulage Association.

TWO PASSENGERS A WEEK

VVHEN Blair and Palmer, Ltd., Carlisle, applied to the Northern Licensing Authority last week for the transfer from Messrs. E. L. Proud, Ainstable, of licences for AinstableCarlisle and Ainstable-Penrith services, it was proposed to cut out one journey a day on an unremunerative seven-mile section of route on which there were only two passengers a week.

The transfer was granted, but the Authority warned the applicant that the alteration would be subject to review. He advised that the service be modified to improve its amenities and was assured that the proposal was for a three-month trial.


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