NEW TERMS FOR BUS WORKERS
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FOLLOWING negotiations between the Transport and General Workers Union and the Venture and Reed and Robson Bros. undertakings, new terms have been laid down for the firms' employees.
These include a guaranteed 48-hour week. Sunday duty will be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter, as will Bank Holidays. Double pay will be given for Christmas Day work.
The rates of pay are :—Drivers: Is. 20. per hour for the first year, is. 30. for the second year and is. 4d. thereafter. Conductors : 9d. an hour at 18 years of age, rising to is.
at 23 years.
The guaranteed 48-hour week or 96-hour fortnight concerns 85 per cent. of the staff, and the remaining 15 per cent, are guaranteed a minimum of 32 hours in six days.
BUSES WILL CELEBRATE MAY DAY.
TRAMWAYS in Dunfermline, and I West Fife, will cease operating on May Day, when they will be replaced by double-deck buses. There are about 50 miles of tramways in the area. The system has been operated by Dunfermline and District Traction Co. since 1909, but some time ago the business was purchased by the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for £285,000.
SWANSEA BACKS S.W.T. CO.
SWANSEA Town Council has confirmed the watch committee's decision to oppose, with the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., the applications, jointly and separately made, of a number of Swansea operators for sanction to reduce bus fares, extend services in certain cases, and for the removal of the protection formerly given to the Swansea trams, which the S.W.T. buses are replacing.
SIR J. STAMP TO OPEN NORTH'S BIGGEST DEPOT.
LEEDS Corporation's new tram and bus depot in Torre Road will be officially opened on April 8 by Sir Josiah Stamp. The depot, which is the largest in the north of England, will accommodate 100 buses in the building, whilst there will be room for another 75 on the adjoining private roads. The tram section will have space for 70 cars.
NO CITY TROLLEYBUSES.
ONDON TRANSPORT is not to be allowed to run trolleybuses in the City of London. This decision has been reached by a Select Committee of the House of Commons, which is considering the London Passenger Transport Board Bill.
It was stated that the operation of 75 trolleybuses an hour at peak periods, and 45 vehicles an hour at other times, would cause a constant procession that would deprive traders of the right to load and unload goods
at their premises in the narrow city streets.
The committee ordered the Bill. to be reported, with amendments, to the House.
NEW GROUND FOR U.A.S.
SUBJECT to the consent of the Traffic Commissioners, Messrs. G. Longstaff and Son, Amble, propose disposing of their services to United • Automobile Services, Ltd„ Darlington: They run from Newcastle to Warkworth, Morpeth to Stobswood, and Ashington to Felton. A revised time-table will be introduced.
TROLLEYBUSES FOR LEEDS?
LEEDS Transport Committee is emir sidering whether to introduce trolleybuses. The committee is pendering on the question whether to use this type of vehicle for dealing with traffic arising from the rehousing, at Seacroft, of people removed from slum-clearance areas.
Mr. H. H. Lancaster, chief traffic officer to Leeds Corporation, recently expressed the view that the main reason for the popularity of the trolleybus was its immunity from control by the Traffic Commissioners.
ROADS FOR I.o.W, RAILWAYS?
ASCHEME to replace the whole of the Isle of Wight railways by railway-owned roads, upon which fast coaches would operate, was mooted at the annual meeting of the SandownShanklin Hotels and Boarding House Association. A. representative of the Southern Railway Co. promised to place the suggestion before the general manager.
LAST THANET TRAM GOES.
AIDNIGHT on March 24 saw the IVI exodus of the last tram in the Isle of Thanet. After 36 years of operation, the Isle of Thanet Electric Supply Co., Ltd., has substituted buses for trams in Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate.
LEEDS OR YORK FOR START OF TOURS?
A PPLICATION for permission to run P./extended tours from York to Scotland and North Wales met with opposition from other road-transport interests, before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at Hull. York Pullman Bus Co. applied for permission to run 12 tours during the period from F.a_ster until the end of September.
Mr. Foxton, for the applicant, said that there was a demand for tours to start in York, instead of in Leeds. Passengers objected to having to go to Leeds to join a coach for a tour. . The application was opposed on behalf of Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds. This concern, it was stated, carried between 50 and 60 York passengers on its tours last year, and it was expecting an. increased number this year. No complaint had been received from York passengers becauR they had to travel to Leeds.
The Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd., also objected to the application York, it was explained, was the las stopping place on the company's ear vice from London to Edinburgh or alternate days, and the company rar tours daily from Edinburgh to all part of Scotland.
Decision was reserved.
COUNTRY SERVICES NEEDED.
ADDRESSING Darlington Rotar: Club, Sir John Maxwell, chairma: of the Northern Traffic Commissioners said that the Commissioners' greates difficulty was to provide new bus ser vices in the country districts.
Referring to the work of th licensing courts, Sir John said that h had the greatest sympathy with sina: men, but the Commissioners could tic deal with the cases which came befor them from the standpoint of sympathy That would only involve applicants i further expense.