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Bus Company to Defend Licences
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PAA PUBLIC sitting is scheduled to be held today by the Northern Traffic Commissioners to decide whether the road service licences of Trimdon Motor Services, Ltd., Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham, should be revoked or suspended. The Commissioners have been told that although the Industrial Disputes Tribunal ruled on April 11 that the company should, pay wage rates agreed by the National Council for the Omnibus Industry, these rates have not been put into force.
The company have 80 employees, all members of the Transport and General Workers' Union. At the Tribunal hearing it was stated that they paid 3d, an hour more than the agreed rate, but did not pay extra for overtime or give holidays in lieu of bank holidays (The Commercial Motor, April 18).
It is understood that the Union are demanding full rates for conductresses, although several operators in the area pay them on a lower scale than men. Trimdon Motor Services have no male conductors. They are already experiencing labour trouble following tho dismissal of two employees, both Union officials, for alleged drinking before going on duty.
SAME SPEEDS THOUGH MORE VEHICLES
MEAN journey and running speeds of traffic in Central London had not altered significantly during the bus strike, although the number of vehicles had increased and the pattern of movement varied, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport told Mr. C. Osborne (Cons.. Louth) last week.
The Minister said that he remained certain that any attempt to control the number of private cars entering London would he impracticable and undesirable, It was a matter of opinion that 21 private cars equalled one bus.
ACT's PROGRESS SLOWED pop• ESTRICTIONS on capital expendi
ture had slowed the progress it had been hoped to make under the Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act, 1955, the Minister of Agriculture stated last week. If it became clear that the money which could be made available under the Act would not be committed before the end of 1962, Parliament might be asked to extend the measure.