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" WAGES. SCALES
PUBLISHED
MANY applications have been received . for " The Commercial Motor " Wages Scales for Road Trans. port Employees. These. are now available at is. 6d. net, from the offices of Temple Press Ltd., • Bowling Green Lane, London, B.C.!. They constitute a clear method of deducing wages in every area, and are set out to cosier overtime, _• They refer to wages rates which became effective from April 24 of this year.
HIGHER PROFIT OF SCAMMELL LORRIES TRADING of Scarnmell Lorries, Ltd.,
for the year 1943 shows a gross profit of £353,183, compared with £303,228 in the previous year After providing £211,750 for taxation and £119,250 for general expenses, depreciation, interest, . etc.-, the net profit comes out at £22,183, which is £2,625 more than in the previous year. A dividend of 8i per cent., less tax, for the year takes £6,854, whilst general reserve receives £14,000, bringing it up to £96,000. The amount to be carried forward is £15,626, against £15,297 brought in.
ROAD TRANSPORT FOR HARVESTERS
ARRANGEMENTS for conveying the numerous additional farm workers required for harvestMg have been simplified by an 1V1.0.W.T. Order which took effect on June 19 and will remain in force until November 30. This allows the use of motor goods vehicles for transporting these workers without the use of p.s.v. and road-service permits.
Insurers have agreed to similar arrangements to cover as were fixed for 1943. The normal rates are 10s, per vehicle not exceeding two months; Sc. per vehicle per month after.
CO-OPERATION OF C-LICENCE OPERATORS SOUGHT '
AN appeal has been issued to C1icence operators in the Noilhwestern Region for their co-operation in a regional ancillary haulage scheme to assist the M.O.W.T. by local haulage of essential traffic. The scheme, which Major F. S. ,Eastwood is introducing in his capacity as acting North-western Transport Commissioner, is on the same lines as that in his own region— the North-eastern—and in Scotland, which have previously been mentioned in this journal.
BOOKLET ON THE FIREPROOFING OF TIMBER
SCOME useful practical advice on modern methods of treating timber to render it fire-resistant, together with some notes on the actual degree to which timber is a fire hazard and the physics of its combustion, are contained in an informative booklet entitled "The Fireproofing of • Timber," recently ..issued by the Timber Development " Association, Ltd., 75, Cannon Street,. London, E.C.4. Apart from the value of the subject-matter to the commercial bodybuilder, the contents should be of especial interest to those concerns which are likely, to be closely linked with .post-war reconstruction pro
grammes. ..
• A copy of the booklet will be sent to any reader of this 'journal on receipt of a penny stamp to cover postage,
DEATH OF PIRELLI DIRECTOR
WE regret to record the death, in his 85th year, of Mr. Alfred Joseph Cohn, whose association with the motor industry dates back to 1909, when he was appointed a director of Pirelli, Ltd., which position he held until his death. He represented the company on the Pneumatic Tyre Committee Of the S.M.M.T. from 1921 to 1929.
ANOTHER CALL FOR QUICKER WINDING-UP OF ASSOCIATIONS
THE first area committee for the Traders' Road Transport Association in the East Midlands has been formed and Mr, S. C. Bond, of Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd., has been elected chairman; the vice-chairman is Mr. E. S. Warth, of Nottingham.
The Committee unanimously endorsed the resolution of • the area executive committee of. the East Midland R.H.A. in the following terms:—
" This committee regrets to note the fact that arrangements have not, in several cases, been made for the calling of the winding-up meeting of the various associations, or for the signing of the Amalgamation agreement, declares the need for immediate completion to be imperative, and affirms" its determination, in the event of the national arrangements being much longer delayed, to apply itself to the task of achieving complete association unity within the area."