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for articulated vehicles, because of the advantages of interchangeability. This statement was made by Mr, R. P. Bowyer, R.H.E. district traffic manager, when he addressed the Birmingham centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration.
It was the Executive's policy, he said, to standardize upon makes within different groups. In Birmingham and Coventry. there were 1,782 machines of 27 various makes.
To reduce dock delays, a shipping depot had been set up to accumulate smalls for delivery in the port areas. Whilst night services were being run to obtain full use of vehicles, unbalanced loading necessitated a certain amount of "tramping."
With regard to staff matters, local joint committees existed at all levels and a cadet scheme had been started to help promotion.
LEICESTER'S FIVE-DAY WEEK NOT SHELVED
rLAR1FYiNG earlier reports that
Leicester Transport Department had shelved proposals to inaugurate a fiveday week because it could be. operated only once in 12 weeks, a statement issued by the general manager and the district officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union says that negotiations on the matter were still being held.
"Negotiations were proceeding normally," it is stated, "and reached the stage where it was felt that it would be worthwhile drawing up detailed duty sheets for all routes. . . In the meantime, the transport committee had given instructions that certain winter-service modifications should be introduced. . . To wrap these changes into an entirely new schedule framework would have delayed their introduction, and both parties agreed that as public need was paramount, the schedules staff should concentrate on the revised service arrangements based on the present type of duties." The management had proposed a 32-week duty roster, of which It weeks in winter and nine in summer were on a five-day basis. No alterations in the working conditions of the six-day weeks were envisaged, but in the five-day weeks certain modifications s‘eie unavoidable.
INBUILT LIGHTING FOR VEHICLE LIFT
TO enable mechanics to dispense with portable forms of inspection lamps and their attendant trailing cables. the Laycock Engineering Co., Ltd., Victoria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield, 8, has irttroduced an inbuilt system of lighting on the Coronation vehicle lift.
Each platform of the lift carries five 24-volt lamps fed from a transformer connected to the wiring system of the lift. The light-fitting is an alloy casting, the bulb being protected by an unbreakable plastic dome.
The lights arc so placed that their rays are thrown upwards to illuminate the underside of the vehicle being serviced.
. Existing Coronation lifts can readily be fitted with these lights without structural alterations.
B.R.S. SHOWS TWO RED LIGHTS
ALL the new vehicles of British Road Services are being fitted with two rear red lamps. The electrical circuit is arranged so that the failure of one lamp does not affect the other.
REGISTRATIONS STABLE
EXCLUDING cars and motorcycles. 11,285 vehicles were first registered in July, compared with 11,439 in June. The total of new registrations for the first seven months of the year is 90.049.