Waste of £260,000 a Year Alleged
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A REPORT by a concern of manage ment and ecis accountants recommends that control of Pretoria's municipal bus system should be transferred from the city council to a' committee of five members. It is proposed that the number of buses should be reduced and that double-deckers should be replaced by single-deck oilers with only a.few seats but with space for. 100 passengers, mostly standing. Oneman operation is recommended.
According to the report, of the £700,000 a year spent on the operation of the system, £260,000 is wasted. It is alleged that the labour force could be reduced from 373 Europeans and 289 natives to 241 Europeans and 132 natives, thereby saving £75,000 a year..
MORE PAY FOR COAL WORKERS UTOTOR roundsnien in the distri butive coal 'trade in the North Midland Region have been granted all increase in wages, of .3s. a week 'under an award by the National Arbitrat-ibn. Tribunal. In grade 1 areas drivers now receive 105s a week and 'in
grade 2 areas • 101s.; mates in grade I areas are paid 98s. per week and in grade 2 areas 94s. a week.
As reported in "The Commercial Motor" of March 31, increased wages have been awarded to workers in the distributive Coal trade in Yorkshire.
SILVERTOWN CHANGES NAME
AFTER 21 years as the wholly owned subsidiary of the Gulf Oil Corpora'Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Silvertown Lubricants, Ltd., Mint= Wharf, West Silvertown, London, E.16, is to take the name of Gulf Oil (Great Britain), Ltd. The occasion has been marked by the publication of a wellproduced 96-page book which tells in pictures and captions the story of the Gulf Oil Corporation.
CORROSION PREVENTED
A USEFUL booklet dealing with the • prevention of corrosion by A.C. compounds is available from the Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales), Ltd., Lubricants Division, 2, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2. Materials 'are available for the protection of fine mechanisot spring shackles, and any machinery which cannot easily be reached, parts dismantled for overhaul, engines. etc.