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Passenger Transport
MORE MONEY FOR LONDON BUSMEN
THE Transport and General Workers' Union recently presented to.London Transport a claim for increased wages for members of the Board's staff whose terms of service are governed by agreements between the Board and the Union. The claim was based on the conditions under which their work has to he done, and the depreciation in their standard of living since the war began. The Board has now agreed to pay a war-time wage increase of 4s. per week or id. per hour in respect of adult male employees, with lesser increases in respect of female and junior employees.
The increases are to be paid as from the beginning of the last pay-roll week commencing before Christmas. About 50,000 of the Board's employees are affected, including certain inspectors, all coach and bus, tram and trolleybus drivers and conductors, and a large number of engineering staff and staff engaged on miscellaneous duties.
WAR'S EFFECT ON JOINT UNDERTAKING
Uto the end of August, 1939, receipts of Burnley, Colne and Nelson Joint Transport Committee showed an increase of £2,000 over 1938. Owing to black-out conditions and fuel rationing, the department is now able to run only two-thirds of the pre-war mileage. Up to December 23 last receipts showed a decrease of over £7,000 and working expenses were considerably increased by the higher cost of fuel, wages and material.
BARRAGE OF BUS CRITICISM AT GLASGOW
SQ INCE the black-out began in 21 employees of the corporation transport department have been dismissed, 155 have been suspended, 1,874 received admonitions at the head office, and over 2,000 were the recipients of warning letters. Suspensions were made for running ahead of time, turning without instructions, and accidents. Letters of warning were sent, in the main, to first offenders.
These details were given at a meeting of Glasgow Corporation on January 4, when Bailie David S. Brown, convener of the transport committee, was subjected to a barrage of questions dealing with complaints against bus and tram drivers and conductors of malingering and running their vehicles on the convoy system during the blackout.
Bailie Brown said that the operation of Glasgow's municipal transport system, like that of all other large cities, was being conducted under great difficulties created chiefly by the black out. The rationing of oil fuel had resulted in the laying-up of 180 buses, adding further to the difficulty of maintaining services under war-time conditions.
ROTHERHAM SECURES SANCTION
THE municipal authorities at Rather1 ham are to introduce a trolleybus service direct from Maltby to Temple. borough, the Regional Transport Commissioner having signified his approval.
CARDIFF'S NEW TROLLEYBUS CONVERSION
rARD1FF Corporation is to convert
the Llandaff Fields tramway route for trolleybus operation and has asked the electricity department to undertake the necessary electrical equipment at a cost of £6,500.
EASTBOURNE'S PROFITS RISE
EASTBOURNE Corporation announces _ that its bus services showed a net profit of £4,705 for the period from April to November last year, as compared with £4,390 in 1938. The motorbus committee has recommended the council to make up the difference between the wages of seasonal employees called up for military service and have suggested that a special committee be formed for the purpose.
" TRENT " EMPLOYEES' WAR BONUS
APPROXIMATELY 1,150 employees of Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Derby, will benefit as a result of the decision of the directors to grant a war bonus of 4s. per week to male employees and 3s. per week to female employees of 21 years of age and over, and who work at least five days a week. A proportionate bonus is to be paid to juniors who are outside these provisions.
NEW GLASGOW SERVICE FOR WAR WORKERS
GLASGOW Corporation inaugurated a new bus service inside the Scottish Industrial Trading Estate at Iiillington
last Monday. The buses are being operated on a circular route, and are run at 20-minute intervals.
The new service, which operates every day except Sundays, has been inaugurated to meet the needs of the thousands of workers who are employed on Government contracts and other work at the various factories on the estate. Many workers have long distances to walk from the estate" entrances to their places of employment, and the new service will be welcomed by them.