NATIONAL APPROACH ON PRODUCTIVITY URGED
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By our Industrial Correspondent DELEGATES representing London's 33,000 busmen met TGWU chiefs on Thursday to hear reports on a further round of productivity talks.
Burning issue between the Union and London Transport Board is how much money saved by running one-man buses should go to busmen.
Any settlement reached will have to go before the Prices and Incomes Board which the Government has asked to examine the whole question of bus productivity.
Last week, bus union chiefs were told at the Ministry of Labour that they could go on with negotiations for pay rises on a productivity-geared basis during the PIB investigation.
It was impressed on the unions by Mr. Roy Hattersley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, and Mr. Stephen Swingler, his opposite number in the Mini
FLEETLINE DITTO REPEAT orders for the Daimler Fleetline include: West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd.: 25 30 ft. double-deckers with Gardner 6LX engines. Middlesbrough Corporation Transport: 10 with Northern Counties 30 ft. bodies and Gardner 6LW engines. Bury Corporation Transport: Six 33 ft. single-deckers with Gardner 6LX engines. W. Meney (Ayrshire Bus Owners Association), Ardrossan, Ayrshire; Graham's Bus Service Ltd., Paisley, and F. Procter and Sons Ltd., Hanley: one 30 ft. chassis each with Gardner 6LX engine. stry of Transport, that there was an advantage in securing an agreed national approach to productivity dealing. The Ministers asked for union co-operation on this point.
MAINLY 'SAME AGAIN' FOR FORD R SERIES FORD'S R Series of bus and coach chassis will continue largely unchanged in 1967/68. All models already fully comply with the safety and braking regulations which become law On January L One change on R226 models for 1967/68 is the introduction as standard of 4,5001b capacity 11-leaf front springs instead of the 4,0901b 9-leaf springs previously fitted. This change has been made to accommodate heavier bodies.
NOT ON THE SYLLABUS!
ADULTS in remote rural areas of Northumberland are not to be allowed to travel as farepaying passengers on school buses, announces the county education committee.
More Bristols for South Shields: A repeat order for six single-deck buses is to be placed with Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd.. for delivery during 1968/89. They will be RESL chassis with Leyland engines and will have Eastern Coach Works 45-seat one-men operated bodies. The order is worth £38,500.
Better Service For Dales? Co-ordination of Sunday transport to the Yorkshire Dales National Park is to be considered by the Yorkshire and Humberside, Northern and North Western Passenger Transport Co-ordinating Committees.