"Forked Rates" Must Prove Their Worth
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LAST week M. Lambert Schaus, I–, responsible for transport within the E.E.C. Commission, commented on the common transport policy programme (The Commercial Mwor, June 8) which Ministers began discussing yesterday. He said the Commission noted that all those concerned considered " forked " published rates acceptable; the system already applied in France and Germany, was being prepared in the Benelux countries and should present no problems in Italy. But, said M. Schaus, at the end of the t-ansitional period, with the system applying everywhere. it would be possible to see whether—as the European Parliament hoped—they might be able to move to a more liberal system. The Commi;s;on admitted that the system of forked rates must prove its worth, and experience would show whether further Inca:Aires were needed to complement it.
FORD ON WAY TO BEST-EVER TRUCK EXPORTS WITH the recent addition of our new
re normal-control truck range we are heading for the best-ever export truck sales year," declared Mr. A. Barke, managing director of Ford Motor Co„ Ltd., Dagenham, last week.
"It is anticipated," he added, "that by the end of 1962 we will have shipped over 16,000 units, to the value of £14,000,000, to all parts of the world— an increase of some 33% over the 1961 shipment figures. In fact, the export production truck schedules for June alone are bordering on 2,000 units, our best month ever. This is a significant indication of the progress being made by the Ford, Dagenham, truck range overseas."
STRIKE THREAT
ACOMPLETE stoppage of all public .transport in Northern Ireland—apart from the services run by the Belfast Corporation—is threatened for June 26.
An attempt is to be made to bring out on strike on that date more than 11,000 employees of the Ulster Transport Authority, from bus drivers to clerks in the administrative headquarters, in support of a claim that the Authority should introduce a pension scheme.