New Haulage Rates Agreed
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NEW haulage rates agreed by Birmingham Works Committee as from April 30 are given below. Travelling time and other conditions are as before.
• The t. ',ping, vehicles functional group of the West Midland Area of the Road Haulage Association have produced recommended minimum rates for the haulage of sand and gravel. Within one-mile radius, the charge is 35. a ton. This rate rises mainly in stages of 4d. per ton per mile to 19s. per ton within 50 miles.
The table reproduced below has been circulated by the Area in an endeavour to exert some influence towards maintaining grain haulage rates at an economic level."
WE regret to record the deaths of VV DR. PIERO PIRELLI, MR. JAMES HICKERSTAFF STEVENSON, M. JAMES FRASER and MR. F. J. WOODBRIDGE.
Dr. Pirelli was the eldest son of the founder of the Pirelli rubber concern. He became chairman and, together with his brother, joint managing director in 1932. He was 75.
Mr. Fraser was Scottish service representative of Girling, Ltd. Aged 56, he was a brother of Mr. Alex Fraser, vice-chairman and managing director of the company.
Mr. Stevenson was chairman of J. B. Stevenson, Ltd., Glasgow, coachbuilders. He was 88.
Mr. Woodbridge was manager of the technical division of the service department of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. He joined the company in 1921. He was 51.
LISTERGENT CERTIFICATE 'THE certificate of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene has been awarded to Listergent Autofoam vehicle shampoo, a product of Lister Equipment, Ltd., 3-5 Charlotte Street, Manchester, 1. It is certified to be 'nontoxic, odourless, tasteless and safe to employ wherever water may be used. The company say it is suitable for cMansing.the interiors of food vehicles.
Still More C-licence Vehicles
THE rate of increase of C-licence I vehicles and operators is tending to accelerate. Britain's ancillary fleet, at 971,065 vehicles, was 54 per cent. greater last June than in June, 1955. The number of operators (480,874) showed a 41 per cent. advance.
In the year to last March the class for vehicles over lj tons-but not exceeding 2 tons unladen dropped by 432, but in the year ended June it rose by 480. The decline in 2-21-ton vehicles continues, but as the following table shows, all other categories have increased:—
CZECHS TO SUPPLY CEYLON?
Q IXTY-PASSENGER buses, workk-.1 shop equipment and prefabricated garages are to be made available to Ceylon by Czechoslovakia on a longterm repayment basis. A Czech trade mission in Ceylon has agreed to send
• mechanics to train local labour in vehicle maintenance.
The Ceylon Minister of Transport has completed plans for the nationalization of bus services and will place them before the Cabinet this month. He will seek approval for a supplementary vote of Rs.20m. for the first stage of his scheme.
He has made it known that the Government are to take over buses in Colombo after compensating the owners. If the city council were unwilling to join the operating organization, the Government would run it alone.
A team which has studied India's nationalized buses has told the Minister that he will need 4,000 vehicles, 30,000 workers and Rs.230m, capital to form a nationalized road passenger service, which would be much bigger than the Government railways. The Minister's scheme is expected to be completed within eight years. The team reported that the controlling board should have eight members.
EXTRA PAY REFUSED
AUNION bid for extra pay for bus staff working before 5.30 a.m. has been rejected by Stockton-on-Tees Corporation on the ground that no case had been made for it. The Transport and General Workers' Union stated that the claim had been accepted by Newcastle Transport Department, and was being considered by other operators in the north-east.