Big B.R.S. Transfer for Exeter - Unopposed A N unopposed application by
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British Road Services, Ltd., to add 18 vehicles (91 tons 3 cwt.) and six trailers to their A licence for their Exeter base was granted by the Western Licensing Authority at Bristol on Monday. Objections had been withdrawn. The vehicles were to carry general goods, mainly in the southern counties, Midlands and South Wales.
Mr. Anthony Baker, B.R.S district traffic Superintendent, stated that the vehicles were at present based at Cullompton. The object of the application, was to avoid duplication of work, because orders reaching the Exeter depot had to be passed to Cullompton.
He was confident that customers in the Cullompton area would not he inconvenienced. The main customer was situated halfway between Exeter and Cullompton. The figures for turnover showed an increase of 10 per cent.
40-HOUR WEEK CLAIM BY BUSMEN NEXT MONTH THE provincial busmen's claim for a 40-hour week will be presented to the municipalities, through the National Joint Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry,..on June 18, and to the companies, through the Council for the Omnibus Industry, on June 20. A pension scheme and a noncontributory sick-pay scheme, as well as a shorter working week, are demanded from the companies.
The claims are being madeby the Transport and General Workers' Union, General and Municipal Workers' Union, National Union of Railwaymen, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Electrical Trades Union and National Union of Vehicle Builders.
VEHICLE BUILDERS SEEK MORE'
• L–V A SUBSTANTIAL increase in wages,
a 40-hour week and a guaranteed week of at least four days at average wages are among the demands to be made in resolutions to be put forward at the annual policy conference of the National Union of Vehicle Builders at Great Yarmouth from June 8-12. Further nationalization of the transport industries, including vehicle building, is the subject of another resolution.
A motionproposes that the national executive committee should examine the possibilities of extending technical education in the vehicle-building industry and the establishment of certificates of similar importance to the higher national certificate in engineering.
Al IMPROVEMENT AT STAMFORD WORK will start soon on the imKoyeVV ment of an eight-mile stretch of the AT road in the East Midlands. It will include the building of a Stamford bypass, one of the most congested towns on the route. Some 6,000 vehicles 'a day, with a total weight averaging over 22,000 tons, use the existing roads; and traffic is frequently held up in the town for 20 minutes.