Municipal Haulage: Rise and Fall Clause.
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Owing to the fact that the probable adoption of certain recommendations contained in the Salter Report is likely to bring about a general increase in the cost of haulage, some of the transport members of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have 'been instrumental in persuading the council of the Chamber to call for the inclusion of a rise and fall clause in municipal haulage contracts for periods of 12 months.
Transport Wages in Manchester.
Manchester Transport Committee recently drew up the following scales of wages for transport workers :—Those on a weekly rate exceeding 50s. and up to and including 54s., a reduction of gd. per hour, provided that no weekly rate be reduced below 50s.; exceeding a reduction of id. per hour ; rates of 508. and under, no reduction ; youths, a reduction of Is. per week.
Growth of Durham Traffic.
A report of Durham County Council indicates the development of motor traffic in the following return of Road Fund licences :-1925, 29,446 licences, £166,057; 1928, 45,451 licences, £218,786; and 1932, 46,014 licences, £229,317.
Perth Buying Double-deckers.
Perth Corporation is to purchase four 48-seater buses at a total cost of £6,600. The sub-committee, which has recently considered tenders, has recommended to the transport committee the purchase of two Crossley oil-engined chassis and two Thornycroft petrol-engined chassis. A meeting of the transport committee approved the recommendation, and it is expected that the buses will be available for the summer traffic.
The bodies for the Crossleys are to be built by Pickering and Co., Ltd., Wishaw, and those for the Thornycroft buses by Metropolitan-CammellWeymann Motor Bodies, Lfd., the latter being of the all-metal type.
A New Road-lighting System.
A system of highway lighting, of which much is expected, was recently inspected by representatives of the Ministry of Transport, Middlesex County Council and Wembley Urban District Council on a section of the Watford Road, Wembley, where it has been experimentally installed. The equipping of the road has been carried out by the General Electric Co., Ltd., the new lamp standards bearing, in special lanterns, the Osira lamp. This consists of a gas-filled chamber surrounded by a vacuum. It is stated that the present experiment is costing is. per hour per mile, the power cost being reckoned at id. per unit.
Aberdeen's New Double-deckers.
Further to the paragraph appearing in our issue for last week, dealing with contracts being placed by Aberdeen Corporation for additional double-deck buses, we now learn that, by a narrow margin of voting the transport coraruittee recently decided to modify its
• previous recommendation for the placing of the order for 12 double-deck bodies. It now proposes that eight of the bodies should be built by Pickering and Co., Ltd., Wishaw, and four by Messrs. Walker, of Aberdeen.