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BUS STOPS
Autos for CIE
CIE, the Irish State-owned operator, is to fit 50 of its M-type single deckers with GM671 engines and Allison MT644 automatic transmissions after successful tests on two buses based at its Broadstone depot. In-service testing of DAF and Cummins engines, each fitted to two of its vehicles, is continuing. It is also evaluating Air-o-Matic power steering on a double decker.
Not unfair
A BRIGHTON industrial tribunal has ruled that bus driver George Graham was not unfairly dismissed by Southdown Motor Services for refusing to join the Transport and General Workers' Union. Mr Graham, now a Brighton Corporation driver, is considering an appeal. His dismissal from Southdown came after he refused to join the union when a closed-shop agreement was introduced. He said the TGWU had not given him strike pay during a 10-day stoppage in 1957.
No bouncers
BOUNCERS on buses to prevent attacks on late-night crews were proposed by Kenneth Borthwick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, last week, in an appeal to bus crews to call off a planned curfew, Terry Weir, the convenor of the busmen's branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union rejected the Lord Provost's plea and said the curfew would go ahead.
Thorny question
FAULTY buses have been a thorn in the side of Dublin busmen for some time. Officials of the National Busmen's Union carried out a lightning check, last week, and returned many of the buses to their depots. This resulted in a one-day strike, now settled. CIE, which operates the buses, says the faults "were only trivial".