N J.I.C. Support Use of Coaches
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A SUB-COMMITTEE of the National I—I Joint Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry decided last week that Sheffield Transport Department was entitled to use private coaches, without conductors, at peak .periods to relieve delays caused by staff shortage.
The committee expressed regret at the one-day protest strike staged by employees of the transport department on Saturday, October I.
The dispute was referred to the N.I.I.C. by the Sheffield branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union (The Commercial Motor, last week).
In a statement issued after their meeting at Sheffield, the committee re-affirmed that the hiring of coaches by a municipal undertaking was " a managerial prerogative." They were of the opinion that problems of maintaining the services arising from staff shortage could be greatly eased by an extension of overtime working.
They recommended the examination of proposals put forward at the meeting, particularly for rest-day working, payment in lieu of holidays and a re-arrangement of duty schedules.
The committee added that a contention by the employees' representatives, that there was an obligation on the part of a local authority hiring coaches to ensure that employees of the coach operators received rates of pay no less favourable than those in the current recommendation of the N.J.I.C., raised a principle which should be the subject for future consideration by the council.
NEW SUMMER NIGHT SERVICE FOR the first time since the war, a night coach service from Sheffield to London is to be available in the summer. Permission to run the service has been granted to a pool of five operators by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority.
New services to London from Halifax and Huddersfield on Fridays and Saturdays from Whitsuntide to September have also been authorized. These will provide Leeds and •Bradford and the heavy woollen district with an alternative route early in the season, one of the services travelling through the Midlands and the other via Doncaster and the Great North Road.
PISTON OUTPUT DOUBLED
REORGANIZATION undertaken in the B.H.B. piston department of
Automotive Engineering, L t d.. Twickenham, has enabled output to be doubled. The machining and inspection departments have been equipped with the latest automatic and semi-automatic machinery.
New air-measuring equipment has been installed in the inspection department and the checking of tolerances of 0.0003 in. is now expedited and simplified.