Fuel Costs and Goods Rates
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BEFORE the fuel crisis the executive Li committee of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers advised certain increases in mileage and hourly rates based on an advance of Is. a gallon in the cost of fuel. If members adopt the recommendations and scale the suggested figures according to the actual increase, the charge for local removals will rise by 9d. an hour and transport rates by 3s. per '10 miles run.
An emergency cirnmittee under the chairmanship of Mr. W. Isard, N.A.F.W.R. president, is examining the matter more closely.
The 10-per-cent. surcharge on haulage rates recommended last Friday by the national, rates committee of the Road Haulage Association covers only the increase in the price of fuel. It does not take account of the advance of 10 per cent. in the price of tyres announced by Dunlop, Firestone and India, and expected to be followed by other makers.
Mr. Boyd Bowman, secretary of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, speaking at a dinner of the East Midland Area at Leicester last Saturday, said that the surcharge of 71 per cent. recommended by the Conference was the lowest figure that would properly cover the extra Is. tax and higher retail prices of fuel
COSTS PAST ECONOMIC LIMIT, SAYS MR. GUY
INCREASED costs of materials and I wages have passed the economic limit. This is stated in the annual report of Mr. Sydney S. Guy, chairman and managing director, Guy Motors, Ltd. Guy exports rose in the past, financial year. Although there has been some curtailment in the number of new orders, those in hand will carry the company well into 1957, says Mr. Guy.
Improved deliveries that the company were now able to offer allowed them to obtain orders which they might otherwise have found impossible to accept. The Sunbeam Trolleybus Co., Ltd., had a profitable year and had done well in the export market, having contracts in hand for Brisbane, Penang, Johannesburg, Colombo and 'Bergen. British undertakings with trolleybuses would appreciate them even more during the present fuel shortage.
Guy Motors Africa, Ltd.. made a satisfactory profit in their first full year's trading in addition to sending some valuable orders to the parent concern.
11.6m. LOSS IMPROVEMENTS in working condi
tions for road passenger transport workers of Coras lompair Eireann were sought by the unions at a labour court in Dublin last week. Mr. L. Redmond, for C.I.E., said that the concessions would cost £49,700 a year, and C.I.E. last year lost £1,625,542. It might be necessary to raise charges.