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r'LAIMS for substantial pay increases ‘...•have been submitted by the unions on behalf of both municipal and company busmen. No date has yet been fixed for a meeting of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry (which deals with company employees). There was a regular meeting last week of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry, as reported in The Commercial Motor, last week, but this meeting did not discuss pay matters because a claim had not then been submitted. The next meeting of_the N.J.I.C..is due to be held on December 9. The last meeting of the N.C.O.I. was on May 9, when an increase of 10s. 6d. a week and a 42-hour week were approved for company busmen.
E129m. BID FOR FORDS
I N what could be the largest take-over bid ever made for the shares of a British company, The Ford Motor Co.. Detroit, America, announced on Monday that it was prepared to offer £129m. in cash for the shares of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Dagenham, not already held by the American concern.
holds 54 per cent, of the ordinary capital, they are in effect making an offer for 17,726,804 shares in the British company —equal to 46 per cent. of The capital.
FIRST, COLOURED DRIVER SHEFFIELD Transport Department's kJ driving school received its first coloured entrant on Monday. The introduction of coloured drivers is expected to relieve an acute shortage of drivers.
Since the American company already