New L.T. Board Appointments

21st September 1962, Page 11

21st September 1962

Page 11

Page 11, 21st September 1962 — New L.T. Board Appointments

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THE Minister of Transport announced on Monday that Mr. A. B. B. Valentine. chairman of London Transport Executive. is to become chairman of the new London Transport Board under the Transport Act; the vesting date for the new board will probably be January I next year. Mr. Valentine will continue to receive his present salary of £7,500. and.Mr. A. H. Grainger, present deputy chairman and managing director of London Transport. will be vice-chairman of the new board at his current salary of £6,000. This new board will be responsible for all London's transport.

The chairman of the Transporl Holding Company under the new Act will be Sir Philip Warter, present deputy chairmany of the B.T.C.; his salary will remain £6,000. A full-time member of the Holding Company will be Sir Reginald Wilson, at a salary of £7.500.

Bigger Municipalities?

AMONG the draft proposals for the York and North Midlands general review area, published ,recently by the Local Government Commission for England, were some that would extend the areas of six municipal bus undertakings.

The six arc: Derby to go up from 8,120 to 19,970 acres; Donca:i:er from 8,370 to 10,150 acres; Hull from 14,420 to 27,340 acres; Nottingham from 18,370 to 34,170 acres; Rotherham from 9,250 to 14,300 acres; and Sheffield from 39.590 to 47,170 acres.

Nottingham's proposed new area would include the 27,000 inhabitants of West Bridgford U.D.C., which itself operates a bus undertaking.

London Bus Strike ?

THE danger of an unofficial strike threatens London's bus services following the breakdown of productivity talks between the London Transport Executive and the Transport and General Workers' Union, reported last week, writes our Industrial Correspondent.

The busmen's leaders have decided to refer the dispute to the national executive of their union— a move which could take some time. But time for a solution is short, for on October 10 the L.T.E. intend to introduce 70 Routemaster buses in the Harrow area.

Routemasters already in service have all replaced even larger trolleybuses and the problem of compensation to crews &el not arise in their case, hut the Harrow batch will be the first to replace 56-seat RT buses.

London Transport seem almost certain to go ahead with-their introduction, with or without a new agreement; busmen's leaders fear that there may be unofficial action at the garages affected. Any stoppage there could quickly spread.

Busmen's representatives have rejected L.T.E.'s offer of 25 per cent, of the agreed compensation in the form of easier working conditions.