R.H.A. to Choose Pension Scheme
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NEXT Wednesday a special committee of the Road Haulage Association will consider a number of pension schemes submitted by insurance
interests. In doing so, they will be assisted by professional advice.
They hope to select a model scheme Which can be recommended for use by hauliers. The one chosen would have to be ratified by the Association's executive committee before it received support.
Mr. Frank F. Fowler is chairman of the pension-scheme committee. The members are Mr. H. H. Crow, Mr. D. 0. Good, Mr. H. Hunter and Mr. J. S. Wright.
The insurance panel of the National Road Transport Federation are closely concerned in the matter.
MR. WHEELER'S NEW POST
FORMER manager of the Staffordshire group of British Road Services, Mr. Harry Wheeler has accepted a post as district traffic assistant in charge of operations at Birmingham. As reported in The Commercial Motor on December 17, 1954, 200 employees at the Bentley depot were to have struck work because it appeared that Mr. Wheeler might be demoted.
They claimed that he had made the group the most efficient in the Midlands and that his down-grading would be "unjust and humiliating." A suitable vacancy for Mr. Wheeler occurred at an opportune time and he will now suffer no loss of status or salary.
NO " BACK-DOOR " DUPLICATION
EXTRA coaches from London to Llandudno must by-pass Birmingham, the West Midland Licensing Authority ruled last week, when he increased the vehicle allowance on London-Birmingham and BirminghamLlandudno services operated at summer week-ends by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
He thought it right to fix conditions so that additional vehicles would not create wasteful competition with the London-Birmingham railway service.
NEW VEHICLE MAKERS NAANUFACTURERS of earth-boring IV1 equipment, the Cheshire Group of companies have reorganized their crosscountry development division and formed it into a self-contained subsidiary, All Wheel Drive, Ltd. This company, which will be installed at a modern factory at Camberley, will make cross-country vehicles.
STANDARD'S 1954 RECORD
LLAST year was a record for the Standard Motor Co., Ltd. They sold 86,000 motor vehicles--70 per cent. more than in 1953. Half this number was exported. In addition. 64,388 Ferguson tractors were produced.