Vauxhall on Fourday Week T HIS week, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.. has
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been working a four-day week because of restrictions on the supply of sheet steel. The short week will be in force until the end of March, whenthe position will be reviewed, The company's stocks of sheet steel are diminishing rapidly and, should there be no improvement, about 1,000 men will have to be suspended.
Sir Charles Bartlett, managing director, said last week: "This is a had blow for a productive community which, with improved manufacturing facilities, was working excellently on developing those exports which we knew were so important, and which was hoping, with its improved fitipities, to do still greater things in those export markets where our limited productive capacity had previously restrained our efforts.
"Every effort will be made by the company to provide work for every possible man in these difficult circumstances on every possible day. But we cannot make bricks without straw,' and all must depend upon that allocation of basic materials which may be made to us from time to time, and over which we have little or no control."
25-MILE RADIUS: NO INCREASE
TN a written reply to Mr. Osborne, I last week, the Minister of Transport said that he was not prepared to introduce legislation to alter the conditions under which goods may be carried by hauliers without long-distance permits.
Mr. Osborne had asked whether the 25-mile radius could be increased to 60. as in Lincolnshire farmers depended upon the services of the private carrier. Mr. Barnes said that the necessary services beyond the 25-mile radius would be provided either under permit or by the British Transport Commission.
CROSSING TALK
LAST week, the Minister of Transport met representatives of various local government associations to discuss the proposed new regulations governing pedestrian crossings. There was a full exchange of views and the Minister undertook to give careful consideration to the points raised and to the written observations which he invited the associations to submit during the next few weeks.
FROST WRECKS SKYE ROADS QEVERE frosts in the past two oJ months have created a "major emergency" in the Isle of Skye, states Mr. I. R. Hilleary, chairman of the Skye Council of Social Services. Delivery of milk is becoming increasingly difficult, and Maj. J. Macdonald. one of the chief dairy hauliers, considers it doubtful whether he can continue.
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