B.R.S. Pay Rise to Increase Rates ?
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IT is understood that British Road i Services' charges are likely to be affected by the pay rise granted .to operating grades. Already, some customers holding contract-hire agreements have been notified of proportionate increases in their rates. A B.R.S. spokesman told The Commercial Motor on Monday that contract-hire agreements were subject to a rise-andfall clause. No decision had been reached on other rates, he said.
The pay rise, effective from January 16, was one of 9s. a week for adults, with consequent adjustments for juniors. There was also an increase of Is. 6d. in the day or night subsistence allowance.
NO FIGURES: NO LICENCE ECAUSE no figures showing the extent of the traffic were provided, the Scottish Licensing Authority last week refused to vary a licence of Mr, David J. Dunabie, Maybole, to enable him to carry refrigerators in a new and heavier vehicle fitted .with a tailboard loader.
The loader would obviate the need to employ an extra man on the vehicle. Mr. Dunabie was said to carry most of the refrigerators made in London and Oxford for Scotland. These appliances constituted 95 per cent. of his traffic.
He wished to use an 8-tonner instead of his present 7-tonner, but British Railways protested that need had not been proved.
The Authority said that he would be prepared to reconsider the case shortly if statistics were provided.
ROAD DELIVERY SAVES £57,000
PAA TOTAL of £57,000 in transport charges had been saved in a year by three West Midland gasworks which started to receive coal by road instead of rail, a representative of the West Midlands Gas Board told the West Midland Licensing Authority last week. A. Fletcher and Co., King Street, Burton, applied for a larger vehicle and a trailer, and the. Little Haywood Transport Co., Park Street, Burton, for six tippers. The vehicles were required for coal transport.
• MINISTER'S VISIT THE Minister of Transport is to visit Birmingham next month to siudy traffic problems, giving special attention to the city's desire to begin work soon on an inner ring road. The first two sections of the road would cost £1,146,000.
30-FT. TIGER CUBS FOR N.G.T.
FORTY Leyland Tiger Cub buses built to a length of 30 ft. have been ordered by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd. The company already have 55 Tiger Cubs. Ten Leyland 8-ft.-wide double-deckers are also to be purchased.