Nottingham to Try Staggered Hours
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APILOT scheme of staggered business hours will probably come into operation in Nottingham this summer, according to Capt. A. Popkess, chief constable. This follows a report by the 10-month-old Staggering of Business Hours Committee,' which was made public last week. The committee included representatives of Nottingham Chamber of Commerce and Nottingham and District Trades Council.
Capt. Popkess said they would be on the way to a solution if the city's four major industries would agree to stagger their hours departmentally. These are Raleigh Industries, Ltd., John Player and Sons, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., and Chilwell Ordnance Depot.
He had been told by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners that the staggering of working hours played an important part in the economics of bus operation. He was sure that the scheme would change the whole nature of the present "hideous rush" to and from work. Although Nottingham would probably be the first city to try it out, he was certain the idea could be successfully applied elsewhere.
A special sub-committee set up by Nottingham Trades Council has suggested a ban on vehicles waitieg along bus routes during rush hours. They also say that parking on both sides of the road should be prohibited in and around the city centre and that traders should arrange deliveries as far as possible out of peak hours.
JAIL SENTENCES QUASHED 'THREE men convicted at Dunblane I Sheriff Court for taking part in incidents involving damage to a bus during the strike last July had their prison sentences cancelled and fines substituted by the Scottish Judiciary Appeal Court at Edinburgh last week.
James McBean Sheriff, driver, and Alfred Charles Pincombe, conductor, had been sentenced to imprisonment for six weeks, and Donald Alexander MacDougall, driver, for 30 days after it had been stated that the tyres of a bus carrying women workers had been let down and sugar put in the fuel tank.
The Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Thomson, said that the convictions must be sustained. Pincombc and Sheriff were fined £25 and MacDougall £15.
HOUSE-HUNTING BY COACH
SOMETHING different in the way of summer coach outings is being planned this year by R. Wetton and Son, Brimington, Derbys. They have asked the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to approve a series of afternoon tours round housing estates being developed by Chesterfield Rural District Council.
The idea is to give prospective tenants of council houses a chance to look at the types of house available. Six provisional routes have been drawn up with the backing of the council. The Commissioners' decision is expected shortly.