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REVENUE from the transport activities of the British Transport Commission. was £4.5m, lower last year than in 1958. It fell from 1653,4m. to £648.9m. Rail goods receipts dropped from £322.5m. to £306.6m., but rail passenger revenue rose from £137.6m. to £139.7m.
The Commission's provincial and Scottish bus undertakings improved their revenue from £59.8m. to £60.6m. Similarly, London Transport road passenger services increased their earnings from £48.4rn. in 1958, when the bus strike occurred, to £54.9m. last year, but their rail revenue dropped from 124.3m. to £23.8m.
OVERTIME BAN IN BIRMINGHAM? DEAK-HOUR bus services in Birming
ham will have to be drastically cut if the threat by bus crews to ban all overtime is implemented. The men are protesting against delay in dealing with their claim for a six-day 40-hour week.
Resolutions calling for a ban have been submitted to the central bus committee of the Transport and General Workers Union. Mr. Harry Green, district secretary, said on Monday that if the resolutions were agreed the effect on bus services in the city would be " extremely grave."
Birmingham Transport Department are at present short of 900 platform staff, and services are maintained at present only by seven-day-a-week working and excessive overtime, added Mr. Green.
GLIDER WAYS REJECTED T'HE West Midland Traffic CommisT sioners, considering that existing services are adequate, have rejected the application by Gliderways Coaches, Ltd., to carry schoolchildren. As reported last week, the company had been supplying contract vehicles for the purpose, but discovered that parents were being charged.
The application was made with the intention of regularizing the position, and weekly fares would have been charged.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the deaths of MR.. JACK VICTOR. SCOITORN and MR. GEORGE HENRY THREADGOLD,
Mr. Scottorn, who was 63, was the founder and managing director of Scottorn, Ltd., and Victor (Swedish Vehicles), Ltd.
Mr. Threadgold, who was 60, was the distribution and supply manager of the accessory division of S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.
SEVEN AUSTINS AT BRUSSELS TWO models from the new FG range I will be displayed on the Austin stand at the Brussels Motor Show, which opens tomorrow. These will be a 200 petrolengineel 2-tonner and a 304 oil-enginecl 3-tonner. Other Austin exhibits include normaland forward-control 5-tonners, a 702 oil-engined 7-tonner, an A55 1-ton van and a 152 '-ton van.