Wages Increases in Many Trades Sought
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AN application for an adjustment in pay scales for British Road Services' maintenance and repair workers has been submitted by the trade unions to the national joint negotiating committee, who are soon to meet to discuss the claim.
An offer of an increase of 2s. 6d. a week in pay for workers engaged on petroleum distribution has been rejected as unsatisfactory by the trade unions, and the matter has been referred to the Industrial Court. Agreement has, however, been reached with regard to the employment of mates. Arrangements are to be made for local managers to examine the effect of the agreement on delivery conditions. Employers in the retail food, drapery and furnishing trades are examining a . WHEN SPECIAL A LICENCES ARE DUE FOR RENEWAL
AGUEST speaker with long experience of handling licence applications will, at the autumn conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, suggest the line that he thinks the Association should follow when special A licences expire and have to be renewed through the normal machinery.
. The conference will be held at the Connaught Rooms, London, W.C.2, on October 20.
Mr. H. F. Marks will present a paper on the possibility of formulating a practicable method of settling wages fair to the public, the employee and the employer.
At least six other subjects will be dealt with. One will concern improvement of the roads, and another the need for more flat lorries in overseas removals.
TRAILER SPEED LIMIT UP?
EGULATIONS permitting an increase from 20 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h. in the speed limit of closecoupled four-wheel trailers are being planned by the Ministry of Transport. A30
Men in the News
MR. .1. LILLIE COSTELLO is YO be appointed manager of the public relations department soon to be established by Shell-Mex and RP., Ltd.
MR. C. J. QUINNELL, formerly manager of the export truck division of Rootes, Ltd., is now manager of export and London sales of the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co.
Ma. E. N. CORNS has joined Stratstone, Ltd., as sales-promotion and
publicity officer. lie was previously publicity officer and London representative of Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd.
Ma. JOHN R. S. HALFORD has succeeded Ma, R. I. L. Fisut as export
sales manager of I.T.D., Ltd. Mr. Halford has been acting as assistant to Mr. Fish, who recently left the company.
Ma. J. GRAYDON has joined VW Motors, Ltd., as director and general manager in control of London headquarters. He has spent approximately 15 years in an executive capacity with Hen10, Ltd.
MR. THOMAS BRANNEN, traffic superintendent of the Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Co.. Ltd., has assumed a similar post with the Sunderland and District Omnibus Co., Ltd. He began his career in 1927 with the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd.
Ma. W. L. DRUMMOND has left Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Lid., and his duties of vehicle sales manager have been taken over by MR. H. W. SANSUM. who will combine them with those of general manager and sales and service manager of the vehicle division.
PRESS FELL ON ROAD
ON the Shrewsbury by-pass early one day last week was found a 4-ton hammer press. The next day it was claimed by British Road Services, who said that it had fallen off a lorry going from Newport to Manchester. They sent another lorry to collect it from a yard in Shrewsbury.
Windscreen Fancies Refuted
MISCONCEPTIONS about safet3 LYi glass windscreens were dealtwit by Sir Graham Cunningham, chairma of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., i a statement to shareholders last wee!
He rejected a theory that the vibrs tion of a vehicle could cause a wilt( screen to break. Toughened glass Iva tested by millions of vibrations fa more severe than would be witbstoo in service, and no break resulted.
Neither could heat inside a vehicl and cold outside cause a windscreen t break. A piece of ice could be place on one side of a Triplex panel and gas flame played on the other withai the glass breaking. Sir Graham als denied that sound waves from th exhaust of a passing veil:de coul smash a windscreen.
Referring to the incidence of win( screen breakages cn the Portsmout
The latest version of the A.E.C. Regent double-deck bus chassis is the Mark V. It is a lightweight model suitable for 8-ft.wide bodywork and is fitted with the A .E.C. A V470 engine, which develops 112 b.h.p. at 2,000 r.p.m., with a maximum torque rating of 325 lb.-ft. at 1,100 r.p.m. It has a four-speed synchromesh gearbox and vacuum-servo braking. It will be exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show on the stand of
Crossley Motors, Ltd.
Road, he said that between Marc! 1951, and May this year, 280 toughenet glass windscreens broke on the roe( and of these accidents, 15 occurred o the "missile mile of the Portsmout Road. These were highly publicize( although at the same time there we 20 breakages on the Brighton Road.
The main, if not the only, cause c these breakages was stones thrown u by other vehicles. Although the roa surface might be free of stones, the could be embedded in a tyre tread an suddenly thrown up.
BRAKES NOT FAULTY: CASE
DENRITH magistrates last week di'
missed a summons against Joh Graham, Ltd., Market Square, Penriti grocers, alleging that they perrnitte the use of an unserviceable torn Evidence was given that hydraulic brake fluid spurted from the pipe t. the rear near-side brake. The defenc stated that the liquid was a mixture o paraffin and oil which had been used t. lubricate the brake, and that probabt too much was used.
The Ministry of Transport examinei Mr. J. W. Harmer, agreed with Mi G. N. Worthington, defending solicitoi that the orange-coloured fluid he hal seen would be indistinguishable fron a paraffin-oil mixture.
Mr. Worthington said that the brake of the vehicle had been tested am found in order.
Aower Fares Ground Dr Grant, But . . .
"HREE appeals • against decisiOns of the West Midland and Western censing Authorities have been rejected th costs by the Minister of Transport.
One of the appellants, Mr. Leslie F. twen, was aggrieved about the attachby the West Midland Authority of rtainitonditions to a licence authoriz g him to operate an express service tween Sutton Coldfield and Tenby. Commenting on the Authority's cision, the Minister states that whilst considers "that the Licensing ithority may properly grant a licence . the grounds, inter alia, that the lower res offered by the road service are so rch lower as to attract people to travel to might not otherwise make the Irney at all, it is nevertheless right ...
r the Licensing Authority, in attaching nditions to such a licence, to have ;ard to the requirements of Section (3) (d) of the Road Traffic Act, 1930." In the Minister's opinion the ithority reached a carefully balanced cision and he did not think the pellanes case was strong enough to aify reversing the judgment.
The other appeal involving the West• idland Authority was made by Mr. illiam A. Mann, and concerned Authority's refusal to grant him rmission to operate a new express 'vice between Bartley Green and the tstin works at Longbridge.
Hants and Dorset Motor Services, 1., and the British Transport Comssion were the appellants against a 1,.ision of the Western Licensing tthority. The appeal related to the ithority's grant of a licence to Mr. V. titland (Hampshire Motorways) thorizing him to run an express sere between West Moors Army camp 1 London.
i`UBSIDY FOR RURAL BUSES? ' was suggested at a meeting of Hexham (Northumberland) Rural Strict Council that a grant from the ad Fund should be made towards the rt of running unremunerative rural s services.
3everaI local services had been withiwn and others were expected to be continued, the meeting was told. The tional Farmers' Union took a serious w of the matter, as the withdrawal transport facilities caused more )ple to leave farm work, LAST FARE INCREASE /HEN Messrs. Wilkinson's Motor Services, Sedgefield, were granted mission by the Northern Licensing thority to raise certain fares on their vice between Stockton and Spennyor, Mr. T. G. Thompson, general nager, said that it would have to be last increase, because he did not nk people could afford, or were ;pared, to pay more.
Without theincrease, it was stated, concern would sustain a loss of 330. If it were granted, there would a profit of £270.