Union Will Rule Birmingham Bus Overtime Schedules
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ISTS of busmen to work week-end overtime for Birmingham Corporation will be drawn up by representatives of the Transport and General Workers' Union in future. This was announced last week by the 'Union's district secretary, Mr. Harry Green. when he commented on the transport committee's decision to give Union members the first chance of week-end overtime.
Mr. Green said he had approached the committee, and they agreed to his proposals. Of the 5,200 platform workers, 99 per cent, were in the Union, and those who could not join on religious grounds would be treated as members.
The system has been denounced by both Conservative and Liberal members of the city council. CIIr. E. Millington, Conservative, said it was the thin end of the wedge, which would lead to the Union running the department and saying what services would be operated. The management should be the authority in drawing up overtime lists.
Mr. W. L. Lawler, chairman of the local Liberal organization, said it was clear that the council's dominating Socialist group regarded themselves as the Union's servants, In these circumstances, negotiations conducted by the transport committee were little more than a farce. This 120-ft.-long steel vessel, with a maximum width of 16 ft. 6 in., negotiated a bridge only 8 ft. 6 in. wide, five miles from Chester, on the A 51 road. It was on its way from Stockton-on-Tees to the Irish Refining Co., Ltd.,
Cork. '
120-FT. P1CKFORDS LOAD
ONE of the longest loads ever handled by Pickfords' Heavy Haulage Service —a 120-ft. steel column weighing 50 tons —was manreuvred through Manchester during the daytime last week. Special permission had been granted because it was urgently needed for a new oil refinery being built at Cork.
It took six days to haul the load from Stockton-on-Tees to Birkenhead. There balloon-tyred bogies were fitted and it was towed across the Irish Sea by four tugs. On the journey to the docks, two Scammell tractors were employed, manned by a crew of seven.
B.R.S. CONTINENTAL RECORD
THE heaviest load ever shipped on one trailer by British Road Services' Continental Ferry Service has arrived at Corby (Northants) after a journey from the Ruhr. The consignment, 13 ft. 6 in. wide, was loaded on a 60-ton pneumatic-tyred low-loader trailer owned by B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., who organized the transit.
It was taken to Antwerp by a Continental haulier's tractor, and then shipped aboard the m.v. Bardie Ferry to Tilbury. There a Pickfords tractor took over.
MORE TANKERS NEEDED
AN increase in the demand for tankers is forecast by Mr. H. R. Hood Barrs, chairman and managing director of the Steel Barre! Scammells and Associated Engineers, Ltd„ in his annual statement. He says the Steel Barrel Co., Ltd., have been employed to maximum capacity.
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