M.P.T.A. Conference, Southsea
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Relations: Single-deckers
TWO important topics—industrial relations in the bus industry, and the operation of 'single-deck buses—were studied at the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's annual conference at Southsea this week.
In his paper, Mr. A. Burrows, general manager of Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Transport Department, stressed the importance of joint consultations between management and employees. He outlined to the conference industrial conditions that he found to exist in several European countries—some of them behind the Iron Curtain—and illustrated his talk with charts and diagrams showing how various Continental undertakings were controlled. • By way of contrast, Mr. W. J. Evans, the general manager and engineer of Reading Corporation Transport Department, brought out some interesting ideas with his notes on single-deck operation, with particular reference to the new dimension regulations, which he briefly quoted to his audience.
• He produced several sketches of vehicles to meet various needs—inter-urban operation, for instance—and suggested certain modifications that would facilitate easier _crew operation.
One of the points he made was that although standardization of fleets sounded attractive, economic conditions today indicated that the single-deck one-man-operated vehicle must •be used until the traffic and frequency on routes justified the large-capacity double-deck unit.