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RIBBLE MEN ON LIGHTNING STRIKE
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HUNDREDS of the Ribble pally s drivers and conductors came out on an unofficial strike last ,aturday. On that day the summer rota of duty came into force and the men claimed that the new schedules would cause physical strain.
However, an official of the company stated that the arrangements were similar to those that were accepted in previous years. Various long-distance services were suspended on Saturday and other services in the North-West coast area were cancelled on Sunday. \ There was a lengthy meeting of Blackburn employees early on Tuesday morning, when improved summerschedule arrangements were demanded. Increases of 2d. per hour in the pay of drivers and conductors are also being asked by men at Liverpool and Blackburn.
At a meeting early on Wednesday, the employees on strike at Liverpool decided by a majority vote to return to work. Negotiations between the union and the company are, it is stated, to be opened.
U.A.S. BUILDING FIVE STATIONS.
rULFLLLING a policy, in common with other leading 'operators throughout the country, of providing every town of sufficient size and importance with its own bus station, United Automobile Services, Ltd., Darlington, is erecting stations in five centres of Durham and Northumberland. '
Stations are already in course of erection at Middlesbrough, West Hartlepool, Carlisle and Berwick, and work has just been commenced on the fifth scheme, at Ashington, the principal colliery town in Northumberland, at a cost of £7,500. The Ashington station is to be equipped to deal with 3,450 departures weekly.
PERCENTAGE TO CORPORATION.
ASYSTEM of co-ordination has been arrived at between Morecambe General Purposes Committee and Morecambe and District Coach Owners Association, for the operation of services during the illuminations period. The corporation will receive 33 1-3 per cent, of the operators' receipts from services along the promenade.
MR. STIRK 'S 500th SITTING, "THE public now knows for certain
1 at what time a bus will run, what the fare will really be, and that the vehicle will be quite safe to travel in."
In these words, Mr. j H. Stirk, chairman of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners, summed up the effect of six years' work of his department. Ile was speaking on the occasion of the 500th sitting of the traffic court for the granting of passenger-carrying licences. RAILWAY BUILDS OILENGINED BUSES
I N the past few months, the Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland has taken on the construction of its own buses. Before the project was started, the co-operation of the Government Department of Industry and Commerce was obtained and, after a suitable type and layout of chassis had been evolved, the various components were imported from England.
The chassis is of a conventional type with a Gardner five-cylindered oil engine, Rirkstall axles, Meadows gearbox, Hardy-Spicer propeller shafts, with C.A.V.-Bosch lighting and fuel equipment.
The fuel consumption was :tested and, after some 10,000 Miles' running, was in the region of 12.6 m.p.g. under fairly heavy service conditions, improving on country runs to 16 131-13.g.
The bodies are 35-seaters with metal tubular seats. Certain of the bodies are fitted with a more luxurious type of seat and Weathershields sunshine roofs.