London Busmen Want to Restore Differential
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I FADERS of London's 53,000 busmen J.-. have decided to press for a pay rise anda shorter working week. This move, forecast by The Commercial Motor on June 28, is aimed at restoring the wage differential which was upset by the recent Hs, award to provincial platform staffs.
The new demands were studied by the passenger trade group of the Transport and General Workers' Union on Tuesday, but the Union executive will have to approve them at their meeting on September 16, before any approach is made to the London Transport Executive.
Although most branches of the Union have similar ideas, Dalston -branch has put forward its own demand to the passenger trade group. They suggest an 11-day, 80-hour fortnight for the bus crews, and a five-day, 40-hour week for inside staff.
After a 3-I-hour meeting on Tuesday, it was stated that Region No. 1 Passenger Trade Group Committee had considered a referenCe to them from their joint delegate conference. Their decision would be conveyed to the General Executive.
MR. NELSON WANTS APPEAL TEST RRE FU SING an application by Mr. C. H. Padfield, High Street, Coleford, Som, for an A licence for four vehicles, Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, said on Monday that as it was a baffling case he would be happy to haN7e it tested before the Transport Tribunal,
The applicant wished to carry quarried materials and return loads normally within a 25-mile radius. British Road Services, the railways and eight hauliers objected.
Mr. Padfield was said to have a B licence for three vehicles and to have obtained it in 1955 by surrendering a C-hiring licence. He said that the present application had been made so that he could carry general goods from London to the West Country on return journeys.
Mr. T. Amblin, managing director et: W. Viney, Ltd., said that his company had a large fleet of vehicles which often went to London and mostly returned unladen. Mr. A. Edwards,managing director, Edwards Transport, Ltd., said that he ran 12 vehicles on long-distance work and often had some of them in London.
Mr. L. Jenkins, of B.R.S., said that from March 24-April 20, trunk vehicles from London were only 47.14 per cent. loaded; from April 21-May 18, 41.8 per cent.; May 19-June 15, 59.8 per cent.; and for the latest period 80 per cent. Applications concerned with return loads from London were viewed with alarm by B.R.S.
Witness told Mr. Nelson that B.R.S. had recently taken a number of vehicles out of commission,