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of 3 per cent. for 6,400 men employed in bus workshops has been offered by the London Transport Executive. If this and a similar offer to L.T.E. railway workshop men are accepted, the Executive would have to find an extra £150,000 annUally, although earnings of the buses since the strike have dropped by 10 per cent. Trade-union claims for a 40-hour week and three weeks' paid holiday have been rejected. Present basic rates for workshop men vary from £7 14s. lid. to £9 16s. a week, although actual earnings are about £12-£15.
5,300-GAL. TANKER 45-FT. LONG THE latest and largest road tanker to L tie placed in service by British Petroleum Australia, Ltd., is designed to carry 5,300 gal. of aviation gasoline between Sydney and H.M.A.S. Albatross, an air station 100 miles south, near Nowra.
The prime mover is an 11-ft. 6-in.wheelbase Leyland Hippo, powered by a Leyland 0.680, oil engine. The doubledriven rear bogie has a ratio of 7.33 to I and the tractor-is equipped with a manually operated Pavey exhaust brake.
The semi-trailer tank unit, constructed by Highgate Auto Engineers Pty., Ltd., of Auburn, Sydney, has six compartments. of which the largest has a capacity of 970 gal. and the smallest 660 gal. The payload is about 17 tons and the overall length is 45 ft. The capacity for motor spirit is 5,100 gal. and 4,400 gal. of benzole.
OLDHAM EXPORTS UP AGAIN riESPITE keener competition and 1--1 increased restrictions on imports in certain countries, exports by Oldham and Son. Ltd., were higher last year than in the previous 12 months. Mr. John Oldham, chairman, in his annual statement published last Saturday, says the result is particularly gratifying because exports in the year ended March 31, 1957, were 50 per cent, higher than in 1956.
"Sales in all divisions have increased during the year and the progress of our overseas companies is both satisfactory for the present and promising for the future," he says.