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No Double-deckers for Express Service
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ATHIRD attempt to get permission to operate double-deck buses on express camp services by Silver Star Motor Services, Ltd., of Porton Down, near Salisbury, was turned down by the Western Traffic Commissioners at Bristol on Tuesday after a three-hour hearing.
The company wanted to use Atlantean vehicles on their week-end express services for Servicemen from Porton Down to Liverpool and Swansea. Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., objected to both applications, and S. C. Shergold to that of the Liverpool service.
Mr. P. E. G. Mather, for Silver Star, admitted that double-deck buses were not usually used on express services of this kind, but he submitted that if this tradition were to be preserved there would never be any headway in public service transport.
Refusing the application, the chairman, Mr. S. W. Nelson, said no fresh evidence had been brought forward to persuade them to alter their previous decision. There was all the difference in the world between a regular service operating daily and a service like the present one which was only necessary "as required" to meet Servicemen's wishes.
BUILDING DRIVERS GET MORE
THE working week for building trade transport workers has been reduced from 46+ hours to 44 hours a week. The weekly wage rates have been increased by 12s., and the payment for nightwork has gone up from 4d. to 8d. an hour. Subsistence has been increased by 2s. to 17s. The agreement covering cost-ofliving wage changes has been amended to take account of the shorter week.
£145,000 INCREASE IN COSTS
THE wage award to company bus workers, which came into effect last month, will cost Southdown Motor SIFrvices, Ltd., £145,000 a year. Mr. R. P. Beddow, the chairman, said this at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.