FEAR OF TRANSFER CAUSES STRIKE
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.. STRIKE of 'employees at certain .1-Vdepots of British Road Services in -Manchester began last Saturday. • It arsise_ out of the suspension for three days of a Member of the bank staff who refused to load a vehicle from &inland. Some vehicles•• havebeen taken out of service in Manchester and men have become redundant, although they have not been dismissed. They fear that they will be transferred to other depots.
On Monday; over half the office staff at the White City headquarters of B.R.S. in Manchester joined the strike. On Tuesday, about 160 vehicles were out of action and some 500 men were absent fibril duty. The London-Manebester container service had to be suspended, DANISH IMPORTS FREED N1EXT year, no licence will be
required to import into Denmark commercial vehicles up to 3 tons, says "The Financial Times." Import licences for motor vehicles are to be increased by 50 per cent. In the first 10 months of the year, Denmark imported from Britain 1,425 commercial vehicles, valued at £601,043,