New Body Set Up to .Run Safety Contest
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IT was announced on Tuesday evening
that the Conference of Omnibus Companies, the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association and the Transport and General Workers' Union had set up a new body, to be known as the Road Operators' Safety Council, to administer the industry's own safedriving competition. A parallel scheme for conductors is also to be run.
, The rules will be similar to those whin obtained for the competition of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for 1954. The first awards will be made for the competition year which began on January 1 this year, thus ensuring no break in continuity.
" The formation of the new Council follows prolonged, but unfortunately unsuccessful, attempts by the industry to persuade Rospi to reconsider their unilateral action of altering the rules for the Society's 1955 safe-driving competition without consulting the industry," the Council stated.
Entry forms for the new competition, and the conductors' award of merit competition, are now being issued to all employers belonging to the organizations conceined.
Inquiries relating to the Council or the competitions should be addressed to the Secretary, R.O.S.Co., Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London, W.C.2.
STEEL TO cost MORE THE Iron and Steel Board propose to increase the price of small-section steel to encourage its manufacture. This was stated in a letter from the Board to the National Employers' AssOciation of Vehicle Builders, produced at a meeting of the rural section in Hull.
It was decided to ask the Board to receive a deputation concerning the " grave shortage of small-section steel. In Lincolnshire, it was stated, representations were being made to M.P.s, and it was agreed to advise that other branches should follow suit.
Mr. J. H. Beal, a member of the national executive, suggested that a national training scheme for apprentices should be started to counteract the shortage of skilled labour in the industry. The subject is to be discussed at the N.E.A.V.B. conference next June.
SPEED RULES PASSED EINAL approval to the Motor
Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limit) Regulations was given by the House of Lords on Tuesday night. The Lords last week sought further clarification of the purport of the regulations before passing them.
Under the Regulations, C-licensed utility vehicles of specified types will not. be subject to any speed limit outside built-up areas, whether laden or not.
42 HAULIERS BANKRUPT
LLAST year 42 hauliers went bankrupt, it was announced on Wednesday.